About the day » Saturday March 4, 1961Calender converter

• Patricia Ann Hassing, Blue Earth Co., Minnesota († 1963)
• Kool, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1961)
• Danielle Joseph Arthur Ford, Chatham, Ontario, Canada († 2006)
• Wilma van Ast, Haarlemmermeer († 1998)
• Andreas Leonardus Eijkenboom, Heerlen († 1961)
• Sylvie MONNET, Pontoise,,95 († 1997)
• Brigitte van de Bor, Barneveld († 1999)
• Robertus Johannes Dijkshoorn, Schipluiden (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Renzo Engelbertus de Vries, Den Helder († 2010)
• Brigitte van den Bor, Barneveld († 1998)

• Egbert Grootens (63)
• Andrew Jackson Leadingham (81), Cabery
• Berend Snetselaar (80), Prarie City Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis van Klink (84), Alkemade
• Ellis William Bacon (86), Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Dirks (83), Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Alida Achina Bouland (89), Veendam
• Derk Jan Luesink (60), Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagje Laas (74), Amstelveen
• Albertha Geertruida (Bertha) de Mönnink (61), Nijmegen

• 1959 » Plamen Getov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1959 » Rick Ardon, Australian journalist
• 1960 » Chonda Pierce, American comedian
• 1961 » Ray Mancini, American boxer
• 1961 » Roger Wessels, South African golfer and educator
• 1961 » Steven Weber, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Paul Canoville, English footballer
• 1962 » Simon Bisley, English author and illustrator
• 1962 » Stephan Reimertz, German historian and author
• 1963 » Jason Newsted, American heavy metal singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer, and politician, 8th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (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.
• January 3 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
• March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• August 21 » American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.

The average temperature on March 4, 1961 was 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.