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• Jan Willem Mantel, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2019)
• Andrew Timothy COUPLAND, Buchanan Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex († 1962)
• Jeanette Admiraal, Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1998)
• Jacques LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1962)
• Ira Melvin McDonald († 1993)
• Joyce Carlton, Philadelphia, PA
• Eric TOUSSAINT, Baudour,, Hainaut, Belgique († 1985)
• Teri Lynn Hinsberger, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Levenloos geboren kind Kuijer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Theo Walda, Amsterdam († 2012)

• Cornelis Kraaijeveld (71), Beverwijk
• Cornelis Hendrik Paans (60), Eindhoven
• Cornelia Wasser (71), Enschede
• Cornelia Maria (Cor) Jautze (82), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bronger Spandauw (80), Groningen, Nederland
• Aurore Léontine Linskens (79), Les Sièges, 89190, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
• Bartus de Weerd (81), Harderwijk
• Anthony Szymanowski (67), Wyandotte, Wayne, Michigan
• Cornelia Wasser (71), Enschede
• Bartus de Weerd (81), Harderwijk

• 1959 » Heino Enden, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Staffan William-Olsson, Swedish guitarist and composer
• 1960 » Richard Dent, American football player
• 1961 » Gary Zimmerman, American football player
• 1961 » Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer
• 1961 » Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model and politician, Governor of Nueva Esparta
• 1962 » Jamie Raskin, American lawyer, academic, and politician
• 1962 » Rex Ryan, American football player and coach
• 1962 » Rob Ryan, American football player and coach
• 1962 » Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist

• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
• 1954 » John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1960 » Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
• 1962 » Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889)

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 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• September 17 » The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
• December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.

The temperature on December 13, 1961 was between 5.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 10.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.