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• David Donald Bunte, Rock Rapids, Lyon, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• Leslie Ann Vincent, Buffalo, Erie, NY († 1961)
• Sjouke de Jong
• Jonny Meijer († 2003)
• James Wayne (Jimmy) Blume († 2015)
• N.N. van Veelen, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland Nederland († 1961)
• Embert van Til, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2001)
• NN Lakeman, Texel († 1961)
• Lyle Dean van der Stoep, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2017)
• Gerben Everts van Benthem, Vollenhove († 2008)

• Cornelis Jozen (79), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth van den Heuvel (49), Rotterdam
• Elisabeth Antonia Wilhelmina van Rinsum (58), Arnhem
• Carolina Andries Koopmans (95)
• Cornelia Siemons (65), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis KLOOTWIJK (80), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Anna van Gastel (74), Breda
• Adrianus Lendrtsz van Duijvenbode (90), Apeldoorn
• Antje Hendriks Sminia (81), Lollum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Duivenboden (90), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1959 » Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Mitch Webster, American baseball player
• 1960 » Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
• 1960 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician († 1998)
• 1961 » Charles Wright, American wrestler
• 1961 » Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » Helga Radtke, German long jumper
• 1962 » Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician († 2017)
• 1963 » David Wilkinson, English theologian and academic
• 1963 » Rachel Griffith, Anglo-American economist

• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)

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.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
• March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
• August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
• September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
• October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

The temperature on May 16, 1961 was between 6.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.