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• W.C.M Jilesen, Katwijk aan de Maas
• Gerrit Jan Brunnekreef, enter († 2013)
• Jo Ellen Cosby, UCLA Medial Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA († 1983)
• NN Verkroost, Leiden († 1961)
• Petronella van der Hulst, Matamata, Auckland (Nieuw Zeeland) († 1961)
• Lenny Bruce Oakes, Boyle County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Albrecht Meindert Mulder († 1972)
• Roger Wayne Glas, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, VS († 2017)
• Gilles Raymond Louis DESCATOIRE, Amiens,80000,Somme,Picardie,FRANCE († 1961)
• Jacklyn Pieternella Adriana KOOT, 's-Gravenhage († 1961)

• Alstje Bos (82), Appingedam
• Anje Post (83), Hoogezand, Groningen, Netherlands
• ""CYRILLUS"" CONSTANTINUS VAN BRANDE (79), RUPELMONDE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Anke Dalmollen (99), Marum
• Allison Bills (62)
• Antonia Maria Moonen (85), Tilburg
• Anke Dakmollen (98), Marum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antje Meyes Terpstra (57), Oldehove, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Netherlands
• Berendje Dusseljee (5), Winschoten
• Alexander Gordon STEBBINGS (68), Toosey Hospital, Longford, Tasmania, Australia

• 1959 » Alain Bondue, French cyclist
• 1960 » John Schneider, American actor and country singer
• 1961 » Brian McDermott, English footballer and manager
• 1961 » Richard Hatch, American reality contestant
• 1962 » Izzy Stradlin, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1962 » Paddy Lowe, English engineer
• 1963 » Donita Sparks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Julian Lennon, English singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 » Tine Asmundsen, Norwegian bassist

• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Robert
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Willem
9. Pieter
10. Gerrit
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Michael
14. Petrus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Karin
9. Jacqueline
10. Wilhelmina
11. Ingrid
12. Monique
13. Adriana
14. Petronella
15. Marianne
16. Anita

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
• March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
• April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
• April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
• September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The temperature on April 8, 1961 was between 4.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.