About the day » Saturday November 18, 1961Calender converter

• nn Hofsommer, ingen († 1961)
• Carry Lunenborg († 1964)
• Wilhelmus Martinus Maria Rongen, Ens, Flevoland, Nederland († 1961)
• Bernardus Andreas Maria Ruijgt († 2002)
• Fernand Clyncke, Blankenberge († 1963)
• Paul Roderick BURFORD († 2009)
• levenloos Visser, Dokkum († 1961)
• Anna Catharina Nieuwenhout, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1999)
• Eduard Willem Insinger, Nieuwer-Amstel (N-H) († 2006)
• Lieske Mutsaers, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1970)

• Antonia Pieternella Ladenberg (62), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Anna Catharina SIMONS (69), Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Ariën Mes (78), Wadwaij
• Clement David BREEN (80)
• Frederik Willem Zijlmans van Emmichoven (67), Kaapstad (Zuid-Afrika)
• "Marie Leonie" Vermarcke (74), Meulebeke, 8760, Tielt, West Vlaanderen
• Anna Roijakkers (96), Weert
• Adriana franken (84), Oudenbosch
• Arie Rolloos (83), Ridderkerk
• Anthonius Vendrig (78), Beekbergen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1959 » Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1960 » Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
• 1960 » Ivans Klementjevs, Latvian canoeist
• 1960 » Kim Wilde, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter and producer
• 1962 » Bart Bryant, American golfer
• 1962 » Kirk Hammett, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1963 » Dante Bichette, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 » Len Bias, American basketball player († 1986)

• 1952 » Paul Éluard, French poet and author (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Ted Heath, English trombonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (b. 1943)
• 1976 » Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (b. 1931)
• 1978 » Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (b. 1925)

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. Catharina
7. Yvonne
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.
• March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
• October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

The temperature on November 18, 1961 was between 5.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.