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• Douglas Patrick Cloutier, United States of America († 1977)
• Carla Kraal († 2015)
• Wilma Valentijn, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Cees Vogel, Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Engbert Albertus Johannes Reijntjes, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Lijdia Johanna Wilhelmina van Duijvenvoorde, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Reinder Grooten († 2006)
• Lijdia Johanna Wilhelmina van Duijvenvoorde, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Hendrikjen Snippe, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Magdalena Gerarda Maria van Kerkhoff, Groessen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2018)

• Antonius Johannus van Bladel (65), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van der Enden (88), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Evenhuis (70), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Carolus Leo Van Wallendael (62), Wilrijk, Antwerpen
• Anna Vermeeren (72), Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur Eduard Inghels (27), Gilze en Rijen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus Johannes Antonius Keuls (71), Den Haag
• Adriana van der Burg (81), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonetta Maria van Haperen (83), Breda
• Antonia Maria van Geffen (75), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1958 » Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator
• 1959 » Gail Shea, Canadian politician
• 1960 » John Pizzarelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Richard Loe, New Zealand rugby player
• 1960 » Warren Haynes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Peter Jackson, English footballer and manager
• 1961 » Rory Bremner, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » Iris Häussler, German sculptor and academic
• 1962 » Marco Schällibaum, Swiss footballer, coach, and manager
• 1963 » Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador

• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)

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.
• March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
• April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
• August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
• September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.

The temperature on April 6, 1961 was between 7.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.