About the day » Thursday July 20, 1961Calender converter

• Aaltje Hilligje (Ali) Smeenge, Assen († 2012)
• Louwe Weerstand († 1961)
• Ali Smeenge, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Katharina Aletta Degen, Maarssen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2021)
• Willem Gerardus Schilder, Heer, Limburg, Nederland
• Louwe Weerstand, Urk († 1961)
• Jerome van Zurk, Grenoble († 1984)
• Filiep ALGOET, Oudenaarde,9700,Oost-Vlaanderen,Ovl, België († 1971)
• Alvin Lee Knobloch († 1961)
• Marcel Christiaan Nestor Houben, Maaseik, Provincie Limburg, België († 1961)

• Antje Gerrigje van Donk (58), Rotterdam
• Anna HUNTER (88)
• Adam Manger (87)
• Barendina van BREDERODE (60), St Augustine,Florida.USA
• Antje Gerrigje DONK, van (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertram S. RAMSELL (62), Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Barbara E. Shuda (86), Mount Carmel, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Boelem Eelsing (92), Den Haag (NL)
• Anna REILLY (61), Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna, Maria Boberg (82), Hagen a. T.w., Niedersachsen, Krankenhaus zu Spelle, Duitsland

• 1958 » Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter
• 1959 » Radney Foster, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1960 » Claudio Langes, Italian race car driver
• 1960 » Prvoslav Vujčić, Serbian-Canadian poet and philosopher
• 1960 » Sudesh Berry, Indian actor
• 1961 » Óscar Elías Biscet, Cuban physician and activist, founded the Lawton Foundation
• 1962 » Carlos Alazraqui, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Giovanna Amati, Italian race car driver
• 1962 » Julie Bindel, English journalist, author, and academic
• 1963 » Frank Whaley, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1951 » Abdullah I, king of Jordan (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Jan Struther, English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
• 1956 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (b. 1868)
• 1959 » William D. Leahy, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (b. 1875)
• 1965 » Batukeshwar Dutt, Indian activist (b. 1910)
• 1968 » Bray Hammond, American historian and author (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (b. 1930)

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 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
• September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
• October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.

The temperature on July 20, 1961 was between 12.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.