About the day » Tuesday January 10, 1961Calender converter

• anna wilhelmina (annemie) holtmanns, arcen
• Marja Weber
• Martine Eijskoot, Antwerpen († 1976)
• Geert Moerman, Roeselare († 2021)
• Johan Rudolf Hut, Baarn,Utrecht,Niederlande († 2020)
• Aleida Euphemia Margaretha (Alie) Veenstra, Kerkbuurt († 2022)
• Johan Rudolf Hut, Baarn († 2020)
• Hein Hoogeveen († 2024)
• Bent Skouboe, Ribe,DK († 1961)
• Lars Skouboe, Ribe,DK († 1961)

• Antje Gjaltema (81), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arendina Koster (70), Gramsbergen
• Aaron van den Berg (73), Amsterdam
• Abraham Reenders (75), Grand Haven Michigan USA, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Everett Savage (92), Groveton, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
• Albert Schipper (86), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ankje Sybes Riedstra (83), Hardegarijp
• Berend Draaijer (76), Orange City, Iowa, U.S.A
• Antonetta Dorothea Janssen (84), Panningen
• Annie Mae Yates (52)

• 1959 » Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach
• 1959 » Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician
• 1960 » Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1960 » Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1960 » Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » John Mann, English lawyer and politician
• 1961 » Janet Jones, American actress
• 1961 » Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
• 1962 » Kathryn S. McKinley, American computer scientist and academic
• 1962 » Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (b. 1867)
• 1959 » Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish general and politician, 6th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (b. 1882)
• 1969 » Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)

• 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 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 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).
• July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

The temperature on January 10, 1961 was between 1.0 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.