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• Michael David Wise († 1999)
• Daniel Boyd Hubbard, Ohio († 2005)
• Katinka Snikkers († 2001)
• Elizabet Post, Urk († 1969)
• Diane Marie Sweere, Perham, Ottertail, Minnesota (USA) († 1969)
• joseph johannes (jos) van oijen, helden-grashoek
• Robert Alexander Don, Maarn († 2009)
• Cornelis (Kees) Verkerk, Ameide († 2001)
• Elizabet POST, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1969)
• Cornelis Theodorus (Cock) van Duin († 2010)

• Carrie D Austin (88)
• Arie Eduard Eckhardt Dulfer (73), Brunswick ME, V.S
• Charles Auguste Louis Marie De Bryas (76), Bryas, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• "Charles" Auguste Louis Marie de Bryas (76), château de Bryas, Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais, France
• Anna Gertrudis Meuleners (69), Susteren, Limburg, Nederland
• Bertha Elizabeth Dunfee (81), Santa Rosa, CA
• Anna Maria van Oeffelen (95), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Jan Loman (83), Amsterdam
• Alberta Amenda van Gastel (44)
• Antonie Gerardus de Weerd (74), Asperen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1959 » Fruit Chan, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
• 1960 » Pierre Aubry, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 » Susanne Bier, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1960 » Tony Jones, English snooker player
• 1961 » Carol W. Greider, American molecular biologist
• 1961 » Dawn Wright, American geographer and oceanographer
• 1961 » Neil Carmichael, English academic and politician
• 1962 » Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan athlete and politician
• 1962 » Tom Kane, American voice actor

• 1945 » Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 » Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1962 » Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
• 1967 » Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)

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 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
• 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.
• October 31 » In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.

The temperature on April 15, 1961 was between 3.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.