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• Kevin Keith Hendrix († 2015)
• James Waagmeester, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2019)
• Delores Ann Spoelstra († 1961)
• Stephanie Gullickson, Fargo, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Mark Niessen, Den Dolder gem.Zeist
• Wayne Arnold Potter († 2006)
• Mark Moeskops, Turnhout, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1985)
• Diane Mommaerts, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2003)
• Gustave Acilles Bastiaan van Haver, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)

• Vreugde (83), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Froukje Krijthe (58), Hoogezand
• Cornelis Frederikus Heshusius (61), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Annemarie Cornelia COMMESSMANN (47), Konstanz Baden-Württemberg Germany
• Adriana Kleijn (70), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Louise TENNEMANN (74), Louisville,Kentucky,Amerca
• Adrianus Jacobus van Gog (63), Rotterdam
• Abele Boonstra (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Frank C. Kaufman (68), Rochester, Monroe County, New York
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Sappelli (70), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1958 » Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright
• 1958 » Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist
• 1960 » Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1963 » Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host
• 1964 » Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer († 2013)
• 1964 » Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer († 2012)
• 1964 » Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1964 » Tracy Camp, American computer scientist and academic

• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)
• 1960 » Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1965 » William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887)
• 1972 » S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)

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.
• March 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
• August 11 » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• 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.
• November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

The temperature on September 27, 1961 was between 11.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.