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• Willem Hofman († 2015)
• Tineke Pelkmans
• Leigh Andrew ROBERTSON († 2012)
• Vernon Dale Staat († 2004)
• Henk Hankamp († 2016)
• Elisabeth W.J.H. IJperlaan († 1964)
• Maria "Ria" Cornelia van Beelen († 2012)
• Constance Kay Kooiman, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Egbert Boersma, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2011)

• Aalbert Ernsten (55), Putten
• Charles Meurders (53)
• Ada V. Edge Barker [Bu] (72), Horry County,South Carolina
• Agnès Jacquet (84), Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Alphonsius RIBBENS (82), Wuustwezel
• Arie Vogel (72), Hardinxveld, Nederland
• Aalbert Ernsten (55), Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aart Jan de Jong (75), Rotterdam
• Arie van Buren (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gepke de Jong (79), Emmen Drenthe

• 1958 » Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator
• 1959 » Lorrie Morgan, American singer
• 1960 » Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 » Jeremy Swift, English actor
• 1960 » Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor
• 1962 » Michael Ball, English actor and singer
• 1962 » Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian businesswoman († 2014)
• 1963 » Johnny Benson Jr., American race car driver
• 1963 » Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning

• 1946 » Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1949 » Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901)
• 1952 » Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1960 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (b. 1871)
• 1962 » Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (b. 1904)
• 1967 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1975 » G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1886)

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 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
• January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
• March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.

The temperature on June 27, 1961 was between 9.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.