About the day » Saturday July 29, 1961Calender converter

• Hans Dondorff († 2004)
• Cornelis Traas, Breskens († 1961)
• Timothy John GALBRAITH († 2005)
• Paula Hendrica Zeilstra, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2010)
• Josephina Martina Hubertha Johannes Lammers, Mierlo († 2017)
• Benny Guffens, Sint-Truiden, België († 2022)
• Richard John BROADFIELD, Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia († 1982)
• Colette BOVING, Mol, 13025, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1961)
• Patrick Gilles Claude VERPILLAT, Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France († 1979)
• Marijke Van Buuren, Het rode kruis Ijmuiden († 2005)

• Burt William Crounk (69), Denver, Denver County, Colorado, United States of America
• Berendine Annette Margarethe Houwing (73), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van de Vijver (76)
• Cornelis Machielse (81)
• Aaldert Timmerman (67), Nieuw-Weerdinge, gem. Emmen, Nederland
• Cornelis Magielse (81), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Dam (66), Oudenbosch
• Cornelis Pieter Jozaf Ignatius Schets (62), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• C. De Graaf
• Willem (72), Terneuzen Nederland

• 1959 » Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Ruud Janssen, Dutch blogger and illustrator
• 1959 » Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1960 » Didier Van Cauwelaert, French author
• 1962 » Carl Cox, English DJ and producer
• 1962 » Frank Neubarth, German footballer and manager
• 1962 » Scott Steiner, American wrestler
• 1962 » Vincent Rousseau, Belgian runner
• 1963 » Hans-Holger Albrecht, Belgian-German businessman

• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
• 1954 » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1960 » Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 1966 » Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
• 1970 » John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (b. 1899)

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. Catharina
7. Yvonne
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 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
• February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• 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 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

The temperature on July 29, 1961 was between 9.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.