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• Mark Bareman
• Konnegonda Geertrui Hobo, Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• (Stillborn) VLASMA († 1961)
• Peter Anthony Hernandez, San Diego, California († 1992)
• Gary James Stratmann, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2017)
• Mary Kathryn Fenn, Petersborough Ontario (Canada) († 2013)
• Bea de Boer († 2024)
• Michael Armand Peter Plinsinga, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2019)
• NN Scaf, Maastricht († 1961)
• Leen Verkaik, Rotterdam († 1961)

• Annie Shaffer (79)
• Antonius Wiggers (60), Arnhem
• Akke Rodenhuis (79), Harlingen
• Calogera Contino (75)
• Carolina Marianna AKKERMAN (89), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Caroline Stevenson McKeown [WhsHpwllARPBu] (70)
• Albert Mulder (85)
• Albertus Johannes Mes (70), Overveen
• Anna Catharina Urgert (85), ,, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus Gijsbertus (Bard) van der Schoot (54), Tilburg, Nederland

• 1958 » Stephen Neale, English philosopher and academic
• 1959 » Mark Martin, American race car driver and coach
• 1959 » Otis Nixon, American baseball player
• 1959 » Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Lisa Walters, Canadian golfer
• 1961 » Didier Camberabero, French rugby player
• 1961 » Henry Omaga-Diaz, Filipino journalist
• 1962 » Ray Houghton, Scottish-born footballer
• 1963 » Irwin McLean, Northern Irish biologist and academic
• 1964 » Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player and manager

• 1945 » Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral and pilot (b. 1908)
• 1946 » Countee Cullen, American poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1947 » Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)

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.
• January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

The temperature on January 9, 1961 was between 1.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.