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• NN Slaman, Texel († 1961)
• Geertruida Jacoba (Geja) Slaman, Oudeschild († 1961)
• Hubertine van Duijvenvoorde, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• João Miranda, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1991)
• Joe Lee Karstens, Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa († 2023)
• Douglas Altermatt († 1984)
• Jedid Bynens, Turnhout, België († 1984)
• Monique TOLLENS, Drongen, 99 († 1995)
• Areke Pothuizen († 1978)

• August Joseph Wiederin (68), Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa
• Adrianus Leonardus de Boo (58), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Josephina Jacoba Maria Vroemen (82), 's-Gravenhage (Z.H.)
• Arie BAL (73), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Arie Bal (73), Den Haag
• Aaltjen Peterkamp (46)
• Anna Catharina van den Homberg (80), Castenray
• Adrianus Engelbertus Petrus Onings (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius van Iersel (78), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Charles W Fairbanks (53), Santa Barbara, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1959 » Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1959 » Mark Williams, English actor
• 1959 » Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
• 1960 » Collin Raye, American country music singer
• 1960 » Holger Gehrke, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 » Debbi Peterson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1961 » Iain Coucher, English businessman
• 1961 » Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1962 » Stefano Tilli, Italian sprinter

• 1946 » Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)

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 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 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.
• October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
• November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
• November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

The temperature on August 22, 1961 was between 13.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.