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• Gerard Dolstra († 2006)
• Douglas K van Ommen, Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Mezach, Vlagtwedde
• Diana Frances SPENCER, Park House Sandingham Norfolk England U.K († 1997)
• franciscus jacobus (frans) korsten, helden-dorp
• Boy Goelmohamed († 2013)
• Susanne Ilona Calicher, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Boelhouwer, Drunen

• Arend van Oosten (71), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dora Caroline LAFRENZ (58), Burgstaaken/Fehmarn (DE)
• Antonia Euphrosien Cecile Rudersdorff (75), Voorburg
• Bernardus Jacobus Hendrikus Haggeman (87), Wichmond, Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Vogelzang (79), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Deodorus Groen (66), Schoorl,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Alberdina Werts (64), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Dierckx (82), Weelde
• Anna Josephine VANDELAER (71), Beringen (Limburg) (B)
• Anna Cornelia Wijker (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1958 » Jools Holland, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1958 » Kim Eui-kon, Korean wrestler
• 1959 » Akira Maeda, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
• 1959 » Michel Preud'homme, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1961 » Christa Kinshofer, German ski racer
• 1961 » Guido Buchwald, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Jorge Barrios, Uruguayan footballer
• 1961 » Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress and producer
• 1961 » William Van Dijck, Belgian runner
• 1963 » Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer

• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)

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. Adriana
13. Monique
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 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
• February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• February 12 » The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
• March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.

The temperature on January 24, 1961 was between -4.3 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.