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• Henraat, Heeze
• Maarten Jan Thierens, te 's-Gravenhage († 1997)
• Helmoed Edwin Dijkhuis, Stedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1995)
• maria johanna petronella (marjo) joosten, maasbree († 1976)
• Petra Duijf, Venray († 1988)
• Derk (Dirk) Mulder, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Baudouin OLDENHOVE de GUERTECHIN († 1961)
• Theodora Maria Hoogenbosch († 2017)
• Dicky de Wit, Brandwijk († 2022)
• Vickie Sue Schipper, Charles City, Floyd, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Akke Kleefstra (80), Enschede
• Charles William Sweany (80), Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Jans de Groot (88), unbekannt
• Abraham Johannes van der Zeeuw (74)
• Adriana de Groot (88)
• Adriaan Dingenis Cornelis van de Velde (72), Heemstede
• Antonia van der Heijden (65), Tilburg
• Arie van der Ham (51), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles ABBISS (82), Lister Hospital, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Andries Visser (62), -

• 1958 » Hal Sutton, American golfer
• 1960 » Elena Kagan, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1960 » Ian Rankin, Scottish author
• 1960 » Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter († 1993)
• 1960 » Phil King, English bass player
• 1960 » Tom Browning, American baseball player
• 1960 » Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 » Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1963 » Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist and academic
• 1963 » Sandrine Dumas, French actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1945 » Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1962 » Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Richard Hughes, American author and poet (b. 1900)

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.
• May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• June 19 » Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 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).
• September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
• September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

The temperature on April 28, 1961 was between 8.8 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.