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• Ronald Joseph Bezold, Fort Thomas, Campbell, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Rita HOUBEN, Kinrooi,3640,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1983)
• Margarethe Carolina Maria Joanne Jacoba Zandvliet, Leiden († 1977)
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Marina van de Laar, Best, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Franciscus Ludovicus Wilhelmus Diederen, Heerlen († 1975)
• Gerrit van de Werfhorst, Oldebroek, Nederland († 2012)
• Wijngaard, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1961)
• Antoon Menze Zwerver, Amsterdam
• Daniel Eugene Voss, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Frank Alden Stolk, Taber, Alberta, Canada († 2019)

• Albert Zijlstra (60), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Agerienus Reyneveld (79), Koudekerk aan den Rijn, Rijnwoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Amerik van Leeuwen (64), Leiden
• Clasina Maria van den Biggelaar (74), Tilburg
• Anna Catharina Maria Vos (68), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Berdina van Leur (42)
• Everardus Johannes van den Eshof (49), Delft
• Boudewijns Maria Amelia (76), Meerle, Antwerpen, België
• Alida Dobbe (86), Haarlem
• Cornelis Petrus Franciscus GROEN in 't WOUD (81), Rotterdam

• 1959 » Mel Gaynor, English drummer
• 1959 » Rupert Everett, English actor and novelist
• 1960 » Mike Freer, English politician
• 1960 » Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
• 1961 » John Miceli, American drummer
• 1961 » Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
• 1962 » Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
• 1962 » Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
• 1962 » Eric Davis, American baseball player
• 1962 » Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager

• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Eva Hesse, American artist (b. 1936)
• 1970 » John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)

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. Jacqueline
9. Karin
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.
• February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

The temperature on May 29, 1961 was between 1.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.