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• Arie Jacobus van Leeuwen, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Hermannus Antonius Hemel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Eric Baeten, Leut († 2014)
• Carla Beth VERMEER, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) († 1961)
• Genevieve Henrica van Seumeren, De Meern, Utrecht, Nederland
• Walter Voet, Borgerhout († 2004)
• walter voet, borgerhout († 2004)
• Levenloos kind Waasdorp, Leiden († 1961)
• Marie Madeleine Brenninkmeijer, Bristol, GB († 1965)
• NN Tanja, 's-Gravenhage

• Anna Dirkje Zwaan (24), Katwijk
• ? Waasdorp (0), Leiden
• Augusta Amanda Vanhoutte (79), Oostkerke
• Andries Jacobus de Vos (51), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Jacob de Borst (55), Rotterdam
• Auke Sjoerds Tmminga (69), St Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Arthur Marie Pascal DEMOULIN (76), Verviers, 4800, Liège, Belgique
• Adriaan Huibregtse (49), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Blanche Bigelow Baker (90), Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, CA
• Bernardus Franciscus Antonius Messing (75), 's Hertogenbosch

• 1958 » Mark Moses, American actor
• 1958 » Sammy Kershaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Beth Broderick, American actress and director
• 1959 » Mike Whitney, Australian cricketer and television host
• 1963 » Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 » Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
• 1963 » Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Gujarati family, most versatile filmmaker of Hindi cinema.
• 1964 » Russell Ingall, British-Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1965 » Jane Swift, American businesswoman and politician, Governor of Massachusetts
• 1965 » Paul Gruber, American football player

• 1953 » Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)
• 1982 » Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (b. 1904)

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 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• 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.
• 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 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
• August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
• August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.

The temperature on February 24, 1961 was between 3.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.