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• Hermijntje Astrid Hagemans, Utrecht († 2014)
• Marianna Cornelia Lenshoek, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Maria Klijs, Oosteind
• Marianne SIER, Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Lambertus Jacobus Pieren, Tiel, Nederland († 2000)
• Heinz-Theodor ADEN, Schirum († 1979)
• Gerard Christiaan Koelman, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2003)
• Johannes Marinus Kossink († 2018)
• Danny Knaepen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2023)
• Brenda Maree COX, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2017)

• Barbera Bos (79), Den Haag
• Christina Elisabeth de Ridder (87), 's-Gravenhage
• Barbara Anna Maria van de Berg (58), Schimmert, Nuth
• Benton Chase Radabaugh, Spanish American War Vet (81)
• Aaltje DERKS (66), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Charles Harper Wakeman (76), The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon
• Cornelia Lucie Louise Dumas (75), Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham van der Linden (54), Leiden
• Aaltje Derks (66), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Boris Jalkow (69), New York, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1958 » Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player († 2016)
• 1959 » Winnie Byanyima, Ugandan engineer, politician, and diplomat
• 1960 » Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
• 1961 » Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, comedian, and producer
• 1961 » Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1962 » Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 » Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1956 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
• 1963 » Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1974 » Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)

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.
• February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
• October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
• November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

The temperature on January 13, 1961 was between 1.7 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.