About the day » Saturday July 29, 1961Calender converter

• Colette BOVING, Mol, 13025, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1961)
• Gerarda Nelly Wielart, Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Nederland) († 2019)
• Marijke Van Buuren, Het rode kruis Ijmuiden († 2005)
• Josephina Martina Hubertha Johannes Lammers, Mierlo († 2017)
• Hans Dondorff († 2004)
• Paula Hendrica Zeilstra, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2010)
• Benny Guffens, Sint-Truiden, België († 2022)
• Patrick Gilles Claude VERPILLAT, Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France († 1979)
• Richard John BROADFIELD, Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia († 1982)
• Gerrit Gijsbert Adrianus Punt, Amsterdam († 2000)

• Caroline Lena Kittrell Rawson [[K 8 FgmcHckryGrMSBu]]4 "Carrie" (81), Lauderdale County, Mississippi ql
• C. De Graaf
• Alvin Charles E (Almer) Davidson (86), California, United States of America
• Allan Thomas SMITH (62)
• Berendine Annette Margarethe Houwing (73), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Schouten (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Elizabeth Zieverink (82), Cincinnati, OH (US)
• Aaldert Timmerman (67), Nieuw-Weerdinge, gem. Emmen, Nederland
• Aaltje WOLTERS (74)
• Cornelis Machielse (81)

• 1959 » Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Ruud Janssen, Dutch blogger and illustrator
• 1959 » Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1960 » Didier Van Cauwelaert, French author
• 1962 » Carl Cox, English DJ and producer
• 1962 » Frank Neubarth, German footballer and manager
• 1962 » Scott Steiner, American wrestler
• 1962 » Vincent Rousseau, Belgian runner
• 1963 » Hans-Holger Albrecht, Belgian-German businessman

• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
• 1954 » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1960 » Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 1966 » Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
• 1970 » John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (b. 1899)

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. Catharina
7. Yvonne
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.
• January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
• January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
• May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
• November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

The temperature on July 29, 1961 was between 9.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.