About the day » Wednesday March 1, 1961Calender converter

• Kimberly Marie Shelton, San Francisco,California,Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Marie Nicoline Josephine Salden († 2021)
• Karl Dale REIF, Eldred, Greene, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• jacobus wilhelmus joseph (jack) van horen, helden-beringe
• N.n. Kok
• Johannes Meindert Schermer, Wormerveer († 2016)
• Jacoba Woutersdr van Groningen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Wilhelmus Andreas Johannes Frederix, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1983)
• Charlene Mary “Big Mama” Cesario, Troy, Albany, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Anette van Vliet, Leidschendam († 1998)

• Adriana Maria Abbring (83), Tolbert
• Albertje Oost (60), Groningen
• Amy Louise MOORHOUSE (81), Walworth, Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Berdina Wilhelmina van Weijenburg (57), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie de Graaf (89), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Snel (89), Delft
• * Teuntje Bohre (83), Sliedrecht
• Alexander Voskamp (66), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Habraken (43), Leiden
• Charles Caspar Hubertus Maessen (75), Neurenberg, D

• 1953 » Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1953 » Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
• 1954 » Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1954 » Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania
• 1956 » Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 » Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Nick Griffin, English politician
• 1961 » Mike Rozier, American football player
• 1966 » Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1942 » George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1952 » Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1976 » Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1979 » Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)

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 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
• February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
• September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The temperature on March 1, 1961 was between 2.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.