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• Wim Harleman, Olst († 1985)
• Carl John GOSSET-VONK, Auckland New Zealand († 1978)
• Wim Harleman, Olst, Gem. Olst-Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland († 1985)
• Paul(Paulus Gerardus Maria) van Gerven, Oirschot, Nederland († 2002)
• Yvonne Wilhelmina Maria Waasdorp, Leiden († 1961)
• Paulus Gerardus Maria van Gerven, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Carl John Gosset Vonk, Auckland (Nieuw Zeeland) († 1978)
• Lieve Marie Jeanne Marguerite CASTELEYN, Roeselare († 2010)

• Cornelis van de Wetering (79), Oud-Beijerland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Franciscus van den Broek (0), Breda
• Alida Van Calster (72), Rillaar
• Catharina Beatrix PRETORIUS (70)
• Bettje Hensens (84), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Boer (71), Amsterdam
• Casper Franke (85), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Johannes Veenstra (90)
• Augustinus LAUWENS (78), Aarschot Vlaams Brabant *
• Arie Gijsbertus Kenemans (80), Ermelo, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1958 » Andreas Carlgren, Swedish educator and politician, 8th Swedish Minister for the Environment
• 1958 » Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician
• 1959 » Pauline Quirke, English actress
• 1960 » Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1961 » Andrew Fletcher, English keyboard player
• 1961 » Ces Drilon, Filipino journalist
• 1961 » Karl Seglem, Norwegian saxophonist and record producer
• 1961 » Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1962 » Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Mark Christopher, American director and screenwriter

• 1950 » Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1952 » August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)
• 1968 » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1973 » Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)

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.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
• August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
• October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.

The temperature on July 8, 1961 was between 14.0 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 16.0 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.