About the day » Tuesday January 24, 1961Calender converter

• Daria Maluta († 2011)
• Mezach, Vlagtwedde
• Douglas K van Ommen, Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan († 2016)
• Susanne Ilona Calicher, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Margaretha Helena van der Deijl († 2019)
• franciscus jacobus (frans) korsten, helden-dorp
• Diana Frances SPENCER, Park House Sandingham Norfolk England U.K († 1997)
• Boelhouwer, Drunen
• Boy Goelmohamed († 2013)

• Charlotte Maria Bruineman (62), Schiedam,-
• Charles Ellsworth Ullery (62), Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• den Hoed (83), Leiden
• Arie Vogelsang (79), Apeldoorn
• Catharina Strijk (68), Rijpwetering
• Divera Timmer (31), Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Johnson (91), Los Angeles, California
• Cornelis van der Poll (44), Lisse
• Catharina Elisabeth Maria Coolen (82), Hulsel
• Antje Poot (65), Winschoten

• 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)

• 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 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
• 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.
• December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.

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.