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• Janette Boon, het St. Lidwina ziekenhuis in den Helder († 1999)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1961)
• Afra Maria Dekker, Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bauke de Vries, Woudsend, Friesland, Netherlands († 1975)
• Bernardus Josephus Maria van de Enk († 1961)
• Kees Koolen, Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Janette Boon, Texel († 1999)
• Peter van Heerde († 1978)
• Frederik Dankelman († 1977)
• Sjaak Bankras, Heerhugowaard († 1984)

• Antonet van der Aalst (79), Eersel
• Allie Hill (83), Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje Voortman (68), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• A. van Rijn (71)
• Aaldert Dekker (80), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Chrisitan Magnus Bagstad (80), Multnomah, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
• Auguste Frédéric Willem Manche (70), amsterdam
• Antonius Hermanus Gerhardus Poelman (52), Hengelo
• Alklee Lucian "Doc" Carpenter **** (71), Wister, LeFlore, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Sloten van (68), Groningen, Gr, Nederland

• 1958 » Jeanne Mas, Spanish-French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1958 » Manuel Torres Félix, Mexican criminal and narcotics trafficker († 2012)
• 1958 » Natalya Estemirova, Russian journalist and activist († 2009)
• 1959 » Jack Abramoff, American businessman and lobbyist
• 1959 » Megan McDonald, American librarian and author
• 1961 » Barry McGuigan, Irish-British boxer
• 1961 » Mark Latham, Australian politician
• 1961 » Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress
• 1962 » Gary Belcher, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1963 » Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist

• 1941 » Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1942 » Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
• 1959 » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Rajendra Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Charles Bassett, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1931)
• 1966 » Elliot See, American commander, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 1967 » Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)

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. Catharina
7. Yvonne
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.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

The temperature on February 28, 1961 was between 2.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 19.8 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.