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• Caspar Willibrordus van der Pasch, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Henricus Antonius Gerardus Maria van Acht, Beek en Donk, Nederland († 1967)
• Britt Eugine Hinsel Holden, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States of America († 2018)
• Martinus Adelbertus Bollen, Steenwijkerwold († 2020)
• Troy Eldon Murra, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2012)
• Willem Alexander Edwin Maria Vos, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)

• Antje Siemens Gjaltema (87), Grootegast, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Ann Hilbelink (80)
• Annechien Kuilman (53), Winschoten
• Arien Slagter (76), Lutjebroek
• Albert de ROO (37), Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Maat (59), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Edith Weedon (62), Barnstable, Devonshire. England
• Anna Bloemink (90), Nieuwer-Amstel (Amstelveen)
• Berend Nijenmanting (70), Winschoten, Groningen, NL
• Berend Hindriks (58)

• 1959 » Iván Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer
• 1959 » Lisa Wilkinson, Australian television host and journalist
• 1960 » Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
• 1960 » Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist and author
• 1961 » Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 » Matthew Waterhouse, English actor and author
• 1961 » Reggie White, American football player and wrestler († 2004)
• 1962 » Gary Fleder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Jennifer Beals, American model and actress
• 1963 » Til Schweiger, German actor, director, and producer

• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)

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.
• January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
• February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• 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.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

The temperature on December 19, 1961 was between -9.9 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.