About the day » Friday August 11, 1961Calender converter

• Gwendoline PELL, Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, England († 2021)
• Cesare Pasini († 2019)
• antonius johannes josephus (tonnie) sonnemans, helden-beringe
• Theo Roeleveld († 2001)
• Elleke van den Berg († 2018)
• John-Nico Middeljans († 1965)
• NN Boerland, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• CHRISTOFORUS MARIA MAAT, Sydney
• Lambertus M. Wilhelmus Johannes de Bijl, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Caecilia Emilie Nolten, Nieuwenhagen, Limburg, Nederland

• Dirk Bannink (93), Tilburg, Nederland
• Alexander Koning (80), Texel
• Catherine MERTZWEILLER (88), Strasbourg, 67482, Bas Rhin, Alsace, France
• Aloysius Ludovicus Swannet (77), Hoboken
• Donald Kenneth de Hart (9), Ogden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Caroline Elisabeth Maria Antonia Josephina Lemmens (70), Grave,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Krijn Vente (77), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Krijn Vente (77), Rotterdam
• Elizabeth Jane Keizer (Halstead) (79), Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, Claremont Private Hospital, Chatswood, NSW#18281 Aged 82 yrs.
• Christoffel van INGEN (72)

• 1959 » Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2014)
• 1959 » Richard Scudamore, English businessman
• 1959 » Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author († 2005)
• 1959 » Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese businessman
• 1961 » Craig Ehlo, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 » David Brooks, American journalist and author
• 1962 » Brian Azzarello, American author
• 1962 » Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
• 1962 » John Micklethwait, English journalist and author
• 1962 » Rob Minkoff, American director and producer

• 1945 » Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)
• 1953 » Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
• 1961 » Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910)
• 1963 » Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)

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.
• January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• January 9 » British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
• May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
• June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
• September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
• 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 August 11, 1961 was between 10.8 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.