About the day » Tuesday June 20, 1961Calender converter

• Harold Genders, Heerlen († 1976)
• Jan van der Laan, Vrouwenparochie
• Arend Jans Stellingwerff, Heidenschap, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland († 2017)
• Brigitte Nollet, Oudenaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen (B) († 2023)
• John Reijnders, Leiden ZH, Nederland († 2019)
• Dirk Roelof Zandstra, Wanganui, New Zealand († 2012)
• Lian Elisabeth Maria Paula Gerarda Vaessen, Heerlen († 2024)
• Kerry Herbert Todd, Conway, Horry County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Frank Maria Jozef Lenaerts, Brasschaat, prov. Antwerpen († 2015)
• Stefan Mellemans, Hasselt, België († 1999)

• Anna Helena Suelmann (65), Kerkrade
• Bertha Roos (84), Den Haag
• Elisabeth van Weert (64), Sint Michielsgestel
• Elisabeth van Weert (64)
• Antoni A.B. (77), Vlagtwedde (Groningen)
• Adriana Hendrika Konings (23), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• aaltje van den HERIK (83), sliedrecht
• * Huberdina Petronella van Bijnen (48), Vlijmen
• Antoni AB (77), Vlagtwedde (gem. Westerwolde)
• Anna Maria Van Den Wijngaard (69), Delft, Nederland

• 1956 » Peter Reid, English footballer and manager
• 1956 » Sohn Suk-hee, South Korean newscaster
• 1958 » Kelly Johnson, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter († 2007)
• 1960 » John Taylor, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
• 1960 » Philip M. Parker, American economist and author
• 1963 » Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter
• 1963 » Mark Ovenden, British author and broadcaster
• 1964 » Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1964 » Silke Möller, German runner
• 1966 » Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)

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 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
• June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
• December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.

The temperature on June 20, 1961 was between 5.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.