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• Johanna Catharina Maria Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom, Algemeen Burgerlijk Gasthuis
• Tonnie Jacobs, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 2019)
• Anton (Tony) Berlips, Amstelveen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Wuis, Beverwijk († 1996)
• Geert KATOEN († 2015)
• Janke Jantina Dam, Leeuwarden († 1961)
• Mia op 't ROODT, Bree, 3960, Limburg, België († 2025)
• Gerardus Carolus Cornelis Jozef Verhoef, Arnhem († 2009)
• Ronald Velders, Delft
• Helena Petronella Maria (Hélène) van Schie, Honselersdijk, Nederland († 2019)

• Callie Aaron (76), Georgia, United States
• Arjen Henk van GRIETHUYSEN (1)
• Albertus Johannes Hilberink (77), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Orazem (72), Palisades Park, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Arend Bleijenberg (61), Veenendaal
• Adriana Steenbekkers (78), 's-Hertogenbosch ('s-Hertogenbosch) (Noord-Brabant)
• B. van den Eijnde (0)
• Arend Westhuis (71), Nunspeet
• Antonia Kappert (85), Zutphen
• Anie (Anje) Juisting (63), Loppersum

• 1958 » Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 » Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 » Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1963 » Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1964 » Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 » Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

• 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.
• July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
• December 9 » Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

The temperature on March 9, 1961 was between 0.5 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.