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• helena johanna gerarda maria (marleen) rongen, helden-koningslust
• Marjo van Delft, Badhoevedorp, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Jon Schmidt, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska († 2000)
• Ralph Carbo, Hilversum
• Marjo van Delft, Badhoevedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Elbertine Geertje Vos, Utrecht, Nederland († 2019)
• Gideon Eliza Leiwakabessy († 2012)
• Yolanda Maria Oprins, Gilze en Rijen
• Arigje Grietje Elisabeth van Buuren, Lexmond (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Alida Wilhelmina Nicolina van der Zwet, Bennebroek-Noord-Holland-Nederland († 2009)

• Ben Broersen (48)
• Chester James de Boer (46), Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa (USA)
• Amy Byng (95)
• Cornelis van Gulik (79), Broek op L'dijk
• Amy Frederike Alice Byng (95)
• Antje Snip (74)
• Aalt van de Pol (58), Amersfoort
• Augusta Johanna Steinhouse (81), Renville, Renville, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Antje WIGGERS (49), Den Helder
• Cornelia van der Zanden (82), Valkenswaard

• 1959 » Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
• 1959 » Perry Farrell, American singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Wayne Pearce, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 » Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
• 1961 » Gary Brabham, English-Australian race car driver
• 1961 » Michael Winterbottom, English director and producer
• 1961 » Mike Kingery, American baseball player
• 1962 » Billy Beane, American baseball player and manager
• 1962 » Kirk Triplett, American golfer
• 1962 » Ted Failon, Filipino journalist and politician

• 1948 » Harry Price, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1881)
• 1957 » Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Barthélemy Boganda, African priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
• 1963 » August Rei, Estonian soldier, journalist, and politician, 12th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)
• 1970 » Anna Louise Strong, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1972 » J. Arthur Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Mantovani, Italian-English conductor and composer (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)

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. 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 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
• April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
• October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

The temperature on March 29, 1961 was between 7.2 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.