About the day » Sunday August 13, 1961Calender converter

• Maria Aleida Hoffmann, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)
• N.N. Neggers, Eindhoven
• Johannes Gertrudis Arnoldus Catharina Lahaye, Lahaije, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 2014)
• Johannes Gertrudis Arnoldus Catharina Lahaije, Maastricht († 2014)
• Katinka Saskia van Dijken, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Filip Libens, Sint-Truiden, België († 2015)
• Katinka Saskia Dijken van, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Johannes Horstra († 1977)
• Robert E “Robbie” Todd ?****, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Steven VanRijcke, Whiteside Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1961)

• Cornelis van der Wijst (61)
• Adriana van Gelderen (88), Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Albertina Helena Theodora Nepveu (94), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Geertruida Wilhelmina Ellenbroek (51), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Edmund Biles Spencer (103), New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania
• Dirk Grootveldt (60), leidschendam
• Alice van Berkum (78), Doon, Lyon County, Iowa
• Elisabeth Maria de Kooning (83), Den Dungen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Franz Konitzer (87), Gross Mist (Neuleben)
• Coralia Maria DHERT (66), Assenede

• 1959 » Bruce French, English cricketer and coach
• 1959 » Danny Bonaduce, American actor and wrestler
• 1959 » Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
• 1960 » Ivar Stukolkin, Estonian swimmer
• 1961 » Koji Kondo, Japanese composer and sound director
• 1961 » Neil Mallender, English cricketer and umpire
• 1961 » Tom Perrotta, American novelist and screenwriter
• 1962 » John Slattery, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Steve Higgins, American talk show co-host and announcer, writer, producer, comedian and impressionist
• 1963 » Valerie Plame, American CIA agent and author

• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• 1971 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (b. 1949)
• 1975 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (b. 1901)
• 1978 » Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (b. 1944)
• 1979 » Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

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 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• March 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
• April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

The temperature on August 13, 1961 was between 5.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.