About the day » Tuesday May 23, 1961Calender converter

• Robert Clayton Ives, Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States († 1999)
• John van Zonneveld, Lisse, South Holland, Netherlands († 2019)
• Robert Benjamin Vader, Vlissingen († 1996)
• Christiane DELEU, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 2022)
• Robert Benjamin "Rob" Vader, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1996)
• van Dijk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Nancy Ellen Peck († 1963)
• Phillip John Morgan († 1961)

• Alexandra Mary CADOGAN (61), Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
• Arie van Oort (74)
• Aart van de Brug (72), Nunspeet
• Anna Maria LAURENSE (67), Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Aart van de Brug (72), Nunspeet
• Auguste Demeurichy (82), Halle,, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Alexandra Maria Hilda Cadogan (61)
• Abraham de Hullu (92), Weesp
• Andries Bosker (61), Groningen
• Akke Pieters de Jong (86), Veenwouden, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1958 » Drew Carey, American actor, game show host, and entrepreneur
• 1958 » Lea DeLaria, American actress and singer
• 1958 » Mitch Albom, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Linden Ashby, American actor
• 1961 » Daniele Massaro, Italian footballer and manager
• 1961 » Norrie May-Welby, Scottish Australian gender activist
• 1962 » Karen Duffy, American actress
• 1963 » Viviane Baladi, Swiss mathematician
• 1964 » Ruth Metzler, Swiss lawyer and politician

• 1945 » Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician, Reich Minister of the Interior (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet (b. 1878)
• 1949 » Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Gustav Suits, Latvian-Estonian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
• 1962 » Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879)
• 1963 » August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 » David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894)
• 1979 » S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)

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.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

The temperature on May 23, 1961 was between 3.2 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.