About the day » Monday September 4, 1961Calender converter

• Carl SEGERS, Turnhout,2300,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1997)
• Frauke Mohring
• Jan de Waard († 2004)
• Agnes Vanaeken, Sint-Truiden, België († 2000)
• Carin Bos, Koningslust, Peel en Maas, Limburg, Netherlands († 2002)
• Afra Catharina Maria (Afra) Appelman, Hem,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Carl G. Alvey, Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana († 1994)

• Adriana Maria van Spronsen (79), Monster
• Catharina Rodenburg (85), Rijswijk
• Daniel Haaring (78)
• Alexandrina Maria Swalef (78)
• Ada Ann Jaques (71), Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
• Catharina van Ringelesteijn (71), (GL) Ede
• Baaltje Hanemaaijer (43), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jacob Kegge (78), Rotterdam
• Bernardus Henricus Franciscus Hansen (65), Amsterdam
• Augustine or Gus Rounsaville (85), Alto, Cherokee, Texas, United States

• 1959 » Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
• 1959 » Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
• 1960 » Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1960 » Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician
• 1961 » Lars Jönsson, Swedish film producer
• 1961 » Nick Blinko, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Kiran More, Indian cricketer
• 1962 » Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1962 » Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, Danish Minister of Education

• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1977 » E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)

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 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
• December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

The temperature on September 4, 1961 was between 15.6 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.