About the day » Thursday November 2, 1961Calender converter

• Linda Sue van Veldhuizen († 1961)
• Danny L (Jr.) Loete, Muscatine († 1999)
• Anja (Anna Mecheline Johanna) van der Steen, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Han Lijmbach († 1982)
• Jan Homan, Hertme († 1961)
• Evelien van Ossewaarde
• Jeffrey Lynn Ruppert, Allentown, Lehigh Co.Pennsylvania († 2007)
• gertruda jacoba maria (truus) gubbels, helden-grashoek
• Todd L. Westerbeck
• Ralf BONNY, Eupen († 1963)

• Antonie Adriaan Rouffaer (70), Kruiningen, Zeeland, NL
• Adriaan de Weert (83), Steenbergen, N-Br, NL
• Apolonia Kloosterman (82), 's Gravenhage
• Berta Pratsch (61)
• Arthur Gordon Langsford (75), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Aurelius Ykema (86), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Sjoerds (Arnold) Bakker (77), Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Gesina Schaper (90), Almelo
• Aleida Johanna Kroon (77), oldenzaal
• Béatrix d'Espagne (87), Monte San Quirico, Toscane, Italie

• 1959 » Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player
• 1961 » Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
• 1961 » k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1962 » David Brock, American journalist and author
• 1962 » Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
• 1962 » Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano
• 1963 » Bobby Dall, American bass player
• 1963 » Jonas Gardell, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1963 » Ron McGovney, American bass player

• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Nhu, Vietnamese activist, archivist, politician, and tactical strategist (b. 1910)
• 1966 » Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1966 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

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 3 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• May 1 » The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
• May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.

The temperature on November 2, 1961 was between 9.3 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.