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• - Reith, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Petrus Adolf Maria (Peet) Barendse, Poeldijk, Nedeland († 2018)
• Roger Marie Albert Leonard Teunissen, Nijmegen († 2017)
• Roger Teunissen, Nijmegen († 2017)
• Dirk Demuynck, 8800 Roeselare West-Vlaanderen, België († 2015)
• Dulcinéia Tomázia Gesser, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1962)
• NN Pastoor, Hoogkerk,, Groningen, Nederland († 1961)
• Donna Beth Coleman, White Plains, Westchester, New York († 2004)
• Cornelis van der Plas, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Laurina van Roosmalen, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)

• Carolina Conelia Aerts (52), Breda
• Arie Keijser (69), Arnhem
• Benjamin van der Mersch (76), Klein Heerewegen (gem. Zeist)
• Benjamin (Ben) van der Mersch (76), Klein Heerewegen, Zeist, Nederland
• Ate Pieters Lindeboom (71)
• Ate Lindeboom (71), Drachten
• Belvie Coleman (46)
• Anna Smith (79), Washington County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Benjamin Van Der Mersch (76), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ate Pieters Lindeboom (71), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1959 » Nancy Grace, American lawyer and journalist
• 1959 » Sam Raimi, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Katoucha Niane, French model and actress († 2008)
• 1960 » Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1960 » Randy Pausch, American author and academic († 2008)
• 1960 » Wayne Rainey, American motorcycle racer
• 1961 » Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Laurie Halse Anderson, American author
• 1961 » Vinicio Gómez, Guatemalan politician († 2008)
• 1962 » Doug Flutie, American football player, sportscaster, and drummer

• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1950 » Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)
• 1978 » Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)

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 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
• March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
• November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

The temperature on October 23, 1961 was between 8.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.