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• Todd Lawrence, Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan († 2006)
• Manon Couprie, Den Haag († 2021)
• Eric William (Ric) DOLLISSON, Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia († 1992)
• Wilco Arie van Haren, Hoogvliet
• Anita Bekelaar, Valkenswaard, Limburg, Nederland
• James Melvin BARR, Portland, Multnomah Co, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Kenneth Dwight (Ken) van Dooyeweert, Campbell River, British Columbia (Canada) († 2018)
• David Ronald MUIR, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand († 1992)
• Theodorus Jacobus Frederikus (Theo) Schalke Jr., 's-Gravenhage
• René Hofman, Rotterdam

• Anna Maria Hamers (75), Schinveld, Onderbanken
• Anna Maria Hamers (75), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham Verbrugh (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Redshaw (81), Auckland, New Zealand
• Aimé Charles van Waes (87), Zuiddorpe
• Aloysius Louis Wempe (67), Saint-Louis Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Aldert van Duijvenvoorde (74), Velsen
• Adam Hermanus van der Steur (66), Harderwijk
• Adrianus Marinus Verhoeven (65), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hamers (75), Schinveld (L)

• 1958 » Curt Byrum, American golfer
• 1958 » Terry Butcher, English footballer and manager
• 1959 » Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Daniel Léo Simpson, American composer
• 1959 » Hansjörg Kunze, German runner and sportscaster
• 1960 » John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1960 » Melvin Turpin, American basketball player († 2010)
• 1960 » Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 » Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1962 » Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist († 1999)

• 1946 » Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (b. 1910)
• 1959 » Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1968 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Katharine Byron, American politician (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.
• February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
• December 9 » Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

The temperature on December 28, 1961 was between -11.1 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -5.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.