About the day » Friday February 24, 1961Calender converter

• Marcus Johannes Dominicus Witteman, Hillegom († 2018)
• Genevieve Henrica van Seumeren, De Meern, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anita Borst († 2005)
• Eric Baeten, Leut († 2014)
• Carla Beth VERMEER, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA) († 1961)
• Hermannus Antonius Hemel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• ? Waasdorp, Leiden († 1961)
• Arie Jacobus van Leeuwen, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Hermanus Antonius Hemel, Klazienaveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• NN Tanja, 's-Gravenhage

• Anton Hendrik Beekhuizen (35), Amsterdam
• Bastiaan Keur (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Bastiaan van Tuijl (82), Delft
• Blanche Bigelow Baker (90), Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, CA
• Alice PHIPPS (95), Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
• Anna Josepha Theodora Maria Cuypers (87), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Angeline Marie Joseph BARBIERE (77), Liège,, Belgique
• Albert Nicolaas TONSBEEK (69)
• Bernardus Franciscus Antonius Messing (75), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Josepha Maria Theodora Cuypers (87), Eindhoven

• 1958 » Mark Moses, American actor
• 1958 » Sammy Kershaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Beth Broderick, American actress and director
• 1959 » Mike Whitney, Australian cricketer and television host
• 1963 » Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 » Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
• 1963 » Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Gujarati family, most versatile filmmaker of Hindi cinema.
• 1964 » Russell Ingall, British-Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1965 » Jane Swift, American businesswoman and politician, Governor of Massachusetts
• 1965 » Paul Gruber, American football player

• 1953 » Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)
• 1982 » Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (b. 1904)

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. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Jacqueline
9. Karin
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 12 » The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
• March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• 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.
• June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.

The temperature on February 24, 1961 was between 3.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.