About the day » Saturday June 3, 1961Calender converter

• Gerda Stephana Meijdam, Asperen († 2009)
• Wilhelmina Snoei, Ridderkerk († 2019)
• Gregorius Weijermars, Hellendoorn
• Maarten Johannes Cornelis Koedam, Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Edith Liauw, Hollandia/NNG, Irian Jaya, Indonesië
• Wolter TEELKEN († 2017)
• Dirk CRACCO, Roeselare († 2020)
• louisa anna wilhelmina (loesje) gommans, helden-panningen († 1967)
• Paulus W.M. Michielsen, Gilze en Rijen
• Ida Adriana Maria Reijkers, Hillegom († 1967)

• Arend ten Hartog (57), Eindhoven
• Catharina Johanna van Buren (64), Arnhem
• Aafke Minnema (78), Epe
• Abraham Johannes Stuivenberg (81), Leiden
• Catherine Theresa Penebsky (75), San Francisco County, California, United States of America
• Antonia Eudolia De Schryver (87), Bornem
• Christina Deurloo (73), Vlaardingen
• Cornelis Poppen (78), Akersloot
• Anna Maria Hufkens (60), Herentals, België
• Anna Maria Looijestijn (67), Voorburg

• 1959 » Imbi Paju, Estonian-Finnish journalist and author
• 1960 » Carl Rackemann, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1960 » Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge († 2016)
• 1960 » Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host
• 1961 » Ed Wynne, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1961 » Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
• 1961 » Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
• 1962 » Dagmar Neubauer, German sprinter
• 1962 » Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
• 1963 » Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, 8th Minister-President of the Walloon Region

• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)

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. 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 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• August 11 » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• October 31 » In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.

The temperature on June 3, 1961 was between 10.3 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.