About the day » Sunday July 2, 1961Calender converter

• Sylvie Brouwers, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Roel Stroink, Oldenzaal († 2011)
• Morelis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Regina Pruiksma († 2017)
• Jezina Johanna Martens, Ommen († 2021)
• Irma Huisman († 2014)
• Leonardus Hubertus Petrus (Leo) Kox, Neede († 2019)
• Jan Liefers, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde) († 1968)
• William Ronald Bowman, Marion County, Kentucky († 1974)
• Johannes Hadeweij Terdu, Poortugaal († 2008)

• Carl Heyer (86), Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Hartman (61), Hoogeveen,Gemeente Hoogeveen,Drenthe,Nederland
• Annie Jennie Jones (83), Provo, Utah, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Carmen Fondevila Ruiz (87), La Palma Del Condado (Huelva)
• Antonius Theodorus Dekkers (57), Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Albert J Brawt (61), Six Lakes, Montcalm County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Joannes Nillesen (40), Plasmolen Mook en Middelaar Limburg Nederland
• Alberta Geertruida Wilderink (73), Haaksbergen, 7480, Nederland
• Allegonda Adriana Vermeer (90), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Versluis (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1957 » Bret Hart, Canadian wrestler
• 1957 » Jüri Raidla, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Justice
• 1958 » Pavan Malhotra, Indian actor
• 1960 » Maria Lourdes Sereno, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1961 » Clark Kellogg, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1962 » Neil Williams, English cricketer († 2006)
• 1964 » Alan Tait, English-Scottish rugby player and coach
• 1964 » Joe Magrane, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Jose Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player and mixed martial artist
• 1964 » Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager

• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
• 1955 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1963 » Alicia Patterson, American publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and feminist (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
• 1973 » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916)
• 1973 » George McBride, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)

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.
• May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• 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 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.

The temperature on July 2, 1961 was between 18.5 °C and 32.2 °C and averaged 25.2 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.