About the day » Sunday October 15, 1961Calender converter

• Gerard Zonneveld, Beverwijk († 2003)
• Lanette Kay Austin, Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Gerard Bakx, Tilburg († 1965)
• Arnold Adriaan Maria Ranty, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• David William Haynes (Twin), Geraldton, Greater Geraldton City, Western Australia, Australia († 1961)
• Susan Lynn Friend, Sunnyside, WA († 1961)
• Gerrit Lambert de Klark, Enschede, thuis († 1994)
• Johannes Hendrikus (Jan) Verlinden, Groningen († 2021)
• Timothy John Haynes (Twin), Geraldton, Greater Geraldton City, Western Australia, Australia († 1961)
• Jan Compagner († 2014)

• * Nicolaas # Melkert (77), Dordrecht
• Dina Dohmeijer (51), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van der Meijden (69), Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Willem Venus (70), Helvoirt
• Aart Rozeboom (50), Renkum,Gemeente Renkum,Gelderland,Nederland
• Baron. Maximiliaan Robert Bentinck (79), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Gritters (60), Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California
• Anna Maria van Dijk (85), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Tallina LAGRO (71), Doorwerth
• Anna Elisabeth Redegeld (68), Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1957 » Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
• 1957 » Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
• 1958 » Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
• 1959 » Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
• 1959 » Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
• 1959 » Sarah, Duchess of York
• 1959 » Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1964 » Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
• 1959 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
• 1960 » Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1963 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1966 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)

• 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 9 » British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
• 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).
• 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.
• July 19 » Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• 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 October 15, 1961 was between 2.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.