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• Stanny Polleunis, kersbeek-Miskom († 2007)
• Annet Dubbink, Almelo († 2021)
• Andreas Antonius Maria Strijkveen, Broekland († 2018)
• David Albert Charles Armstrong Jones Viscount Linley, Clarence House, London, England († 2000)
• N.N. Sombekke, Oldenzaal, 7570, Nederland († 1961)
• Diedrich Joachem Hendriks Kalt, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2013)
• Kees Andringa, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Adriaan Slings, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland († 1980)
• Claire Margaretha Thomas, Durban Zuid Afrka († 2014)
• Johannes Robertus Gerardus Wesdorp, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1980)

• Carolus Vanbroeckhoven (82), Geel, België
• Carl Ferdinand Nitzsche (75), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus Hermanus Kion (63), Rotterdam
• Dewey Samuel Angstadt (62), West Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Cornelius Josephus Thijs (78), Deurne
• André Désiré de Calonne (70), Den Haag
• Adrianus Josephus Jonkergouw (72), Amsterdam
• Clinton Bronson Gardner (63), Palmyra, NJ
• Augusta Maria Stroetmann (92), Doesburg
• Alfred Benjamin Saroni (71), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1959 » Hal Hartley, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Ian McNabb, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1960 » Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 » Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
• 1961 » David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman
• 1961 » Greg Townsend, American football player
• 1962 » David J. Schiappa, American lawyer and politician
• 1962 » Gabe Newell, American businessman, co-founded the Valve
• 1962 » Jacqui Smith, English lawyer and politician
• 1963 » Davis Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1949 » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1956 » Jean Metzinger, French artist, (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Paul Willis, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1962 » L. O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (b. 1895)
• 1968 » Vern Stephens, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 1969 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Marc Allégret, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (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. 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.
• February 12 » The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
• February 15 » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
• May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.

The temperature on November 3, 1961 was between 3.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.