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• Diana Frances SPENCER, Park House Sandingham Norfolk England U.K († 1997)
• Gerard Dolstra († 2006)
• Mezach, Vlagtwedde
• Boelhouwer, Drunen
• Douglas K van Ommen, Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• franciscus jacobus (frans) korsten, helden-dorp
• Boy Goelmohamed († 2013)
• Susanne Ilona Calicher, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)

• Divera Timmer (31), Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth van de Corput (88), Amsterdam
• Bernardus Jacobus Hendrikus Haggeman (87), Wichmond, Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Vogelzang (79), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Strijk (68), Rijpwetering
• Antonia Euphrosien Cecile Rudersdorff (75), Voorburg
• Anna Cornelia Wijker (79), 's-Gravenhage
• Cornelis van der Poll (44), Lisse
• Christiana Mols (79), Breda, Nederland
• Catharina Anna Maria Mulder (79)

• 1958 » Jools Holland, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1958 » Kim Eui-kon, Korean wrestler
• 1959 » Akira Maeda, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
• 1959 » Michel Preud'homme, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1961 » Christa Kinshofer, German ski racer
• 1961 » Guido Buchwald, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Jorge Barrios, Uruguayan footballer
• 1961 » Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress and producer
• 1961 » William Van Dijck, Belgian runner
• 1963 » Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer

• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)

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.
• January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
• 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.
• August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
• September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• 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.

The temperature on January 24, 1961 was between -4.3 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.