About the day » Saturday March 4, 1961Calender converter

• Brigitte van de Bor, Barneveld († 1999)
• Andreas Leonardus Eijkenboom, Heerlen († 1961)
• Andreas Leonardus Eijkenboom, Heerlen († 1961)
• Robertus Johannes Dijkshoorn, Schipluiden (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Renzo Engelbertus de Vries, Den Helder († 2010)
• Brigitte van den Bor, Barneveld († 1998)
• Kool, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1961)
• Sylvie MONNET, Pontoise,,95 († 1997)
• Danielle Joseph Arthur Ford, Chatham, Ontario, Canada († 2006)
• Wilma van Ast, Haarlemmermeer († 1998)

• Alfred T Evans (67), Gorham, Jackson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Reina Dijksterhuis (55), Groenendijk, Hontenisse
• Anna Margaret Fletcher Watten (81), Gilmer, Upshur, Texas, United States
• Dieuwertje Broertjes (66)
• Adriana KOOIMAN (75), Rotterdam
• Anna Petronella Cornelia Bastiaanse (74), Bergen op Zoom
• Alida Achina Bouland (89), Veendam
• Cornelia Ariens ImthoOrn (72), Leiden
• Alberta Geertruida de Mönnink (61), Nijmegen
• Cornelia Imthorn (72), Leiden

• 1959 » Plamen Getov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1959 » Rick Ardon, Australian journalist
• 1960 » Chonda Pierce, American comedian
• 1961 » Ray Mancini, American boxer
• 1961 » Roger Wessels, South African golfer and educator
• 1961 » Steven Weber, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Paul Canoville, English footballer
• 1962 » Simon Bisley, English author and illustrator
• 1962 » Stephan Reimertz, German historian and author
• 1963 » Jason Newsted, American heavy metal singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer, and politician, 8th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (b. 1903)

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.
• February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

The average temperature on March 4, 1961 was 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.