About the day » Tuesday May 2, 1961Calender converter

• Lenie Woort, Urk († 2021)
• Geertje van der Meijden, Den Bosch († 2002)
• Danny Lee Bleeker, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2019)
• Jacobus Johannes Huijberts, Schagen, Nederland († 1983)
• Ingeborg Regina Herma (Inge) van Ommen, Wezep, Nederland († 2019)
• Bernadette HOELEN, Delft,, Pays-Bas († 1965)
• Robert Gijsberts, in Geldrop, Netherlands († 1999)
• Erwin Willy Pontzeele, Bornem († 2018)
• Els de Roos, (FR) Sneek († 2013)
• Paula Valent, Oostzaan († 2002)

• Cornelis Sterk (92), Herwijnen
• Adriana Vermeij (64), Voorschoten
• Alida Vervaet (62), Kalken, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Maria Barbara Rutten, Sittard
• Cornelia Schenk (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Backx (89), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Gerrits Verhoeven (86), Almkerk
• Adriana Vermey (64), Voorschoten
• Anna Josephina Maria Hutgens (73), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Constant Kloos (50), Rotterdam

• 1958 » Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese songwriter and producer
• 1959 » Alan Best, Canadian animator, director, and producer
• 1959 » Tony Wakeford, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Stephen Daldry, English director and producer
• 1961 » Phil Vickery, English chef and author
• 1961 » Sophie Thibault, Canadian journalist
• 1961 » Steve James, English snooker player
• 1962 » Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
• 1962 » Jimmy White, English snooker player
• 1962 » Michael Grandage, English director and producer

• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1974 » James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)

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. Jacqueline
9. Karin
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 » 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 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
• July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

The temperature on May 2, 1961 was between 10.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.