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• Arnolda Maria van der Wal, Leiderdorp
• Jean-Pierre Roosen, Lommel, Limburg, België († 1968)
• Jorge Benedito Thiesen, Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1961)
• Jean-Pierre Roozen, Lommel († 1968)
• Viviane Van Buggenhout, Willebroek († 1990)
• Dirk Maria Peter Jeuris, Sint-Truiden, België († 2017)
• Gina Ann Duininck, Kandiyohi County, MN
• Rick Ivo Caro Kay ter Haar, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Arthur Petrus Jacobus de Bekker, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Josephus G.E. Hoogveld, Gendt († 2018)

• Anna Gijsen (74), Weert
• Anna van Diepen (80), Obdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Kwakman (71), Volendam, Edam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Davids (71)
• Antonia Maria van Boxtel (70), 's-Hertogenbosch
• arnoldus van mullekom (64), griendsveen
• Anna Catharina (Kaatje) Eimers (79), Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albertje Boering (81), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adelin Mathildis Wils (47)
• Antje Chattillon (79)

• 1959 » Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
• 1959 » David Corn, American journalist and author
• 1959 » Scott Brayton, American race car driver († 1996)
• 1960 » Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea († 2014)
• 1960 » Joel Hodgson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Steve Lundquist, American swimmer
• 1962 » Dwayne McDuffie, American author, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Milestone Media († 2011)
• 1963 » Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1963 » Ian Brown, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1963 » Joakim Nystrom, Swedish tennis player

• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

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 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• 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.
• March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• August 11 » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• 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 February 20, 1961 was between 3.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.