About the day » Monday December 11, 1961Calender converter

• Burret Kruiswijk († 2018)
• Tammy Rae Oelmann, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2017)
• Michael Weiland, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa († 1970)
• Paula Martha Stroink, Groningen
• John van Sikkelerus, Heemskerk, Gemeente Heemskerk, North Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Larry Dean Davis, Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, United States of America († 2007)
• Renée Hermans († 1981)
• Mylène Poel, Heiloo († 2017)
• Fabiola Jochems, Deurne (B), België († 1978)
• Roberto Alexander Smeekes († 2012)

• Antonius Willebrordus Perquin (57), Steenwijk
• Beecher G. HOXWORTH (71), Battle Creek
• Albert Lehman (86), Wadena, Minnesota, United States
• Alfred BONOT (90)
• Albert Jakob Barelds (51), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Chester J. Blevins (33), Los Angeles County, California
• Antonius Batholomeus Heijs (82), Mill en St. Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert ten Broeke (67), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aletta Margaretha Nagtegaal (63), Utrecht, Nederland
• Celestina Swinnen (86), Leuven

• 1958 » Chris Hughton, English-born Irish footballer and manager
• 1961 » Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and politician, 4th President of Senegal
• 1961 » Marco Pierre White, English chef and mentor
• 1961 » Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1963 » Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player
• 1963 » John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 » Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 » Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer
• 1963 » Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach

• 1951 » Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
• 1957 » Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1959 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
• 1964 » Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1966 » Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)
• 1968 » Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)

• 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 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
• September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.

The temperature on December 11, 1961 was between 8.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.