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• Alain Bossaerts, Genk, 3600 († 2021)
• Nancy Faye Gabbard, Dayton, OHDeath, Dayton, OH, Minot, NDThis († 2014)
• Jan Sanders, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1981)
• Robert Clinton Trimble, Orange, California († 1986)
• Marten MARTENS, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands († 1979)
• Anna Catharina Akveld, Rotterdam zh,nld, Nederland († 1996)
• Silvia Veenvliet, Huizen († 1998)
• Helena Felicia Stokhof, amsterdam, Nederland († 1961)
• Henny van Nielen († 2020)
• Johanna Klazina, Astrid van Wijhe, Deventer, Netherlands († 2021)

• Alphonse Van Acker (78)
• Adriaan Gilles van Waveren (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Feltz, van der (88), 's-Gravenhage
• Albert Ottenga (77), Arnhem
• Anna Idella Fielder (83)
• Christina Clasina Van Der Berg (80), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Josephina Kerssens (65), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andreas Drever (33)
• Augustinus Dominicus Hubertus van Huijgevoort (63), Eindhoven
• Christian Nicolaisen (75), Dynt ved Broager

• 1959 » Craig Bellamy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1959 » Fred Couples, American golfer
• 1959 » Greg Proops, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
• 1961 » Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer, and musicologist
• 1961 » Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer
• 1962 » Simon Scarrow, Nigerian-English novelist
• 1962 » Tommy Lee, Greek-American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1963 » Benny Anders, American basketball player
• 1963 » Dan Goldie, American tennis player

• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)

• 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 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

The temperature on October 3, 1961 was between 11.1 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.