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• Kees van de Koevering, Den Dungen († 1993)
• Cornelis Andreas Johannes van Zwienen, Tiel († 1984)
• Jolanda, Wilhelmina, Maria van Velden, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Nicki Denise Tolen, Terre Haute, Virgo Co.Indiana († 1989)
• Angela Johanna Maria Schilderinck, Beltrum († 1961)
• johannes hendrikus wilhelmus (jan) winkelmolen, sevenum
• William Gerald Heinen, Sheboygan, Wisconsin († 2015)
• Patrick Manshoven, Hasselt, België († 1994)
• Leonardus Carolus Netten
• Karel Thomas Robert Maria van Habsburg-Lotharingen, Starnberg, Duitsland

• * Herman Massink (75), Renkum
• Anthony William Steenis (0)
• Christiaan Cuijpers (91), Oerle
• Carel Cornelis Johannes Knake (79), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Kruijt (58)
• Berendina Held (70)
• Cecilia Theresa Klingshirn (70), 2199 Belle Ave, Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• * Gijsbert Esser (79), Arnhem
• Adriana Boot (56), Goes, Nederland
• Alice Birdie Johnson*** (79), Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten

• 1958 » Vicki Peterson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Brett Bodine, American NASCAR driver
• 1959 » Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 » Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish racing driver († 1989)
• 1962 » Brian Moore, English rugby player
• 1962 » Chris Bryant, Welsh politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1962 » Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
• 1963 » Petra Schneider, German swimmer
• 1963 » Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
• 1964 » Ralph Recto, Filipino lawyer and politician

• 1954 » Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1957 » Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1958 » Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• 1968 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (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. Jacqueline
9. Karin
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 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
• June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
• 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 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.

The temperature on January 11, 1961 was between -2.6 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.