About the day » Friday October 6, 1961Calender converter

• Rene Huegen († 2010)
• Laurie Ann Cheney, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America († 1977)
• Huijpen († 1961)
• Marinus van den Bos, Schiedam († 1961)
• Sue Rogers, Danville, Vermilion Cnty, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Arjen Jaap Laurens Koelé, Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Petrus Johannes Galjaard, Utrecht († 2001)
• Arie Jacobus van der Heiden, Meerkerk, Utrecht, Nederland († 2012)
• Jack Von Horne Jr († 1980)
• mara gertruda anna hermien (mia) billekens, helden-panningen

• Adrianus Vis (87)
• Bouke Huizinga (91), Warffum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloysius Egidius Stockmann (87), Utrecht
• Albertus Lokken (77), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Priemus (73), Vught
• Aalt Kuijers (86)
• Alida Arendina Jeanette SCHUIJT VAN CASTRICUM (91), Arnhem
• Alida Arendina Jeannette Schuyt van Castricum (91), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonia Blok (67), Noordwijk
• Aloys Steinmann (66), Grieth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland

• 1959 » Brian Higgins, American politician
• 1959 » Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
• 1959 » Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician († 2012)
• 1959 » Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
• 1961 » Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist
• 1961 » Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress
• 1961 » Paul Sansome, English footballer
• 1962 » David Baker, American biologist and academic
• 1962 » Rich Yett, American baseball player
• 1963 » Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach

• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
• 1973 » François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

• 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 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
• January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• 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.
• July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
• September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
• December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

The temperature on October 6, 1961 was between 13.1 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.