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• Tine van Dijk († 2017)
• Hans Schenzel, Den Haag († 1985)
• van de Beeten, De Steeg († 2015)
• Susanne Theodora Paulina Baggen, Grubbenvorst († 2003)
• Alta Helena de Beer († 1990)
• Heintje van de Kamp, Putten († 2009)
• Edwin Theodorus Johannes Huisman, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Charmaine Horn, Brakpan (Zuid Afrika) († 1996)
• Yvonne Lasschuit († 2009)
• Lisa Carol O'Halloran, Royal Oaks, Michigan († 2014)

• Albert Wopkes Riemersma (80), Stiens, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Vink (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vulto (76), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• A. C. Campbell (60), Greeley, Weld County, Colorado
• Anna Maria Peemen (80), Prinsenbeek
• Aaltje Spiegelaar (80), Groningen
• Baukje Geerts Fopma (73), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Rovers (42), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ludovica Arets (76), Hulsberg, Nuth
• Anna van STEIN (77), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1959 » Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1996)
• 1959 » Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1959 » Lutz Dombrowski, German long jumper and educator
• 1960 » Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, English-Scottish journalist and author
• 1960 » Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Craig Johnston, South African-Australian footballer and photographer
• 1960 » Laurent Rodriguez, French rugby player
• 1961 » Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer
• 1961 » Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » John Benjamin Hickey, American actor

• 1948 » William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
• 1949 » James Steen, American water polo player (b. 1876)
• 1950 » Maurice O'Sullivan, Irish police officer and author (b. 1904)
• 1958 » Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
• 1960 » Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• 1971 » John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1972 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (b. 1890)

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 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
• January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
• January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
• December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

The temperature on June 25, 1961 was between 13.6 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.