About the day » Saturday September 23, 1961Calender converter

• Caroline Maria Sophia Diependaal, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Caroline Blokland, Deurne Belgie († 1961)
• Eric Lamont Glynn, Madera, Madera, California, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• levenloos van der Loo, Tilburg, Nederland († 1961)
• eric alexander rosalia franciscus de Hoon, Bergen op zoom († 1961)
• Berla Catharina Reina Zoetemeijer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)

• Alice DELOOF (60)
• Bertha Scheper (66), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Arthur COLLINS (73), Penshurst, Victoria, Australia
• Anna de Boer (83), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• August Bernard Riské (57), Berchem
• Aleida Grada HEBBINK (56), Zelhem, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arthur vicomte de Beughem de Houtem (69), en son château de Lippeloo
• Catherine Mcnichol (49), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham van den Ham (82), Rotterdam
• Allegonda Martina Tempelaars (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1959 » Chris O'Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
• 1959 » Frank Cottrell-Boyce, English author and screenwriter
• 1959 » Hans Nijman, Dutch mixed martial artist and wrestler († 2014)
• 1959 » Jason Alexander, American actor, singer, and voice artist
• 1959 » Martin Page, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1960 » Kurt Beyer, American wrestler
• 1960 » Luis Moya, Spanish race car driver
• 1961 » Chi McBride, American actor
• 1961 » William C. McCool, American commander, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1962 » Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist

• 1944 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1971 » James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
• 1978 » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)

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 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• 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 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
• June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.

The temperature on September 23, 1961 was between 14.9 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.