About the day » Saturday August 12, 1961Calender converter

• Roy Schouten, Adelaide (Aust) († 1983)
• Harold Henric Clowting, Koudekerke († 1992)
• Harold Henric CLOWTING, Koudekerke,Gemeente Veere,ZEELAND,NEDERLAND († 1992)
• Elisabeth Agnes Rietveld, Hardinxveld-Giessendam († 1989)
• Leon van Iersel, Oisterwijk († 1990)
• Johanna Hendrika Maria van Zwieten, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL († 2021)
• Francis Johan Jozef Maertens, Zwevegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 2006)
• Cornelia Adriaantje Schakel, Sliedrecht († 2009)
• Jeanette Rovers, Veghel († 2015)
• Albert Oldenburger, Emmen

• Dirksje Schelling (64), 's-Gravendeel (Zuid-Holland)
• Adrien Achiel Cornelius RABAEY (47), Vinkem
• Akke Veenstra (68), Balk, gem. Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Maria Jansen (70), Amsterdam
• Acelino Alves (49)
• Albertus Jordanus Johannes van den Heuvel (37), Utrecht
• Akke Veenstra (68), Sneek, Wymbritseradeel,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Maria Jansen (70), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Johannes Hamers (59), Breda
• Auguste Regine Marie Dorothea RÖTTCHER (93), Glückstadt Natal Südafrika

• 1958 » Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1960 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1961 » Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer
• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna
• 1963 » Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1964 » Txiki Begiristain, Spanish footballer

• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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.
• 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.
• 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 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

The temperature on August 12, 1961 was between 6.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.