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• Johannes Willem Merbel van de, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1961)
• de Hoogh, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1993)
• Saskia Anna Caspers († 2013)
• Marc Edwin van der Ree († 2000)
• Twan Ansems, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Emma Johanna Elizabeth Moerman († 2013)
• Petrus Hubertus Gerardus Weijzen, Susteren († 2004)
• Gerben Kruissink, Zutphen († 2023)
• Marleen Bosmans, Genk († 1977)
• Henricus van Houtum, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)

• Andries Gerardus van Brakel (51), Ede
• Cornelia van de Kamer (77), Schoorl, Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Balthasar Maria Sannen (64), Tilburg, The Netherlands
• Antonius Josephus Balthazar Maria Sannen (64), Tilburg
• Cornelius Bont de (78), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius Hendrikus Boudewijn (58), Haarlem, Noord Holland, The Netherlands
• Cora van der Wal (67), MI, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Schijven (66), Berkel-Enschot
• Armand Joseph Roch Lemay (52)
• Arie Vermeulen (79), Almelo

• 1959 » John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Roger Taylor, English drummer
• 1960 » Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
• 1961 » Chris Mars, American artist
• 1961 » Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Colin Anderson, English footballer
• 1962 » Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
• 1963 » Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
• 1963 » Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler
• 1963 » Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer

• 1950 » George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
• 1964 » E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)
• 1968 » John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902)

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 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
• July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.

The temperature on April 26, 1961 was between 8.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.