About the day » Sunday March 12, 1961Calender converter

• Emma Lourentia Margaretha Ferrageau de St. Amand, Amsterdam († 1984)
• Mark Masmeijer, Blaricum († 2016)
• charlotte louise verhaaf, zutphen († 1961)
• Lucas Johannes Johanneszo. Witte, Harreveld († 1961)
• Norman Ray Mofield [sWksPwkObFwkKgBeeBBu], Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky († 2006)
• Erwin Vinzenz Stockmann, Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland († 1968)
• William Patrick Moss († 1990)
• Peter Michal Ball, Londen, South East England, Groot Brittanië
• Emma Lourentia Margaretha Ferrageau de Saint Amand, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Lucas Johannes Witte, Harreveld († 1961)

• Adriana Stoel (72), Dordrecht, Gemeente Dordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arnold Helmar Halverson (62), San Antonio, Texas, United States
• Catharina Maria Fransina Goemans (78)
• Anna Margaretha Petersen (87), Den Haag
• Anthonie Johan de Bruin (66)
• Barend Kieft (65)
• Antonia Maria Bloo (46)
• Arthur PELEGRIN (65), Croix, 59163, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Barend Kieft (65), Putten
• Bertha Vennik (52)

• 1959 » Luenell, American comedian and actress
• 1959 » Michael Walter, German luger († 2016)
• 1959 » Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
• 1960 » Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
• 1960 » Jason Beghe, American actor
• 1961 » Titus Welliver, American actor
• 1962 » Andreas Köpke, former German footballer
• 1962 » Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
• 1962 » Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
• 1962 » Julia Campbell, American actress

• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (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.
• 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.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.

The temperature on March 12, 1961 was between 5.8 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.