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• Ans Assink, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2018)
• Hendrikus-Cornelis Munnik, valkenburg, Limburg, Nederland († 2006)
• Willy Stinissen, Bree, Limburg, België († 2000)
• Funs Joosten, Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Myriam Madeleine Assez, Roeselare († 2019)
• Myriam Assez, Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2019)
• Joop Buurman († 2020)
• Maria Johanna Petronella Louisa Rongen, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 1963)
• elisabeth josepha maria (ellie) van dommelen, helden-koningslust
• Charles Darwin Jensen, Annapolis, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 2002)

• Adrianus Gerardus Bruin (40)
• Adolf Houtman (70), Finsterwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Antonia Margaretha Oldenburg (74), Rotterdam,-
• Antje de Vries (85), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Awghty Dickey Hilburn (80), Glenwood, Pike, Alabama
• Antonia Maria Strikker (74), Almelo, 7601, Nederland
• Arcelia A Hillburn (80), Glenwood, Pike, Alabama
• Bernardus Heinrich Gerdes- (82), Musselkanaal, Nederland
• Adriana Platte (79), Amsterdam
• Agatha Maria van der Peijl (89), Haarlem

• 1959 » Vincent Irizarry, American actor
• 1960 » Maurane, Belgian singer and actress († 2018)
• 1961 » Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
• 1961 » Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast and coach
• 1962 » Jon Dough, American porn actor, director, and producer († 2006)
• 1962 » Kuniko Asagi, Japanese actress and television host
• 1962 » Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian journalist and actress
• 1962 » Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1962 » Naomi Wolf, American author and activist
• 1962 » Neal Shusterman, American author and poet

• 1950 » Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (b. 1865)
• 1950 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel Aranybika (b. 1878)
• 1955 » Sarah Wambaugh, American political scientist, world authority on plebiscites (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1891)
• 1958 » Gustaf Söderström, Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) (b. 1885)
• 1965 » Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician († 1971)

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. 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.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• July 19 » Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
• July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
• October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
• October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

The temperature on November 12, 1961 was between 4.2 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.