About the day » Saturday August 12, 1961Calender converter

• Leon van Iersel, Oisterwijk († 1990)
• Harold Henric Clowting, Koudekerke († 1992)
• Albert Oldenburger, Emmen
• Jeanette Rovers, Veghel († 2015)
• Janine Henriette SCHOUTEN, Aalst-Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Roy Schouten, Adelaide (Aust) († 1983)
• Cornelia Adriaantje Schakel, Sliedrecht († 2009)
• Francis Johan Jozef Maertens, Zwevegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 2006)
• Johanna Hendrika Maria van Zwieten, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL († 2021)
• Harold Henric CLOWTING, Koudekerke,Gemeente Veere,ZEELAND,NEDERLAND († 1992)

• Antonia Van den Wijngaerd (72), Antwerpen
• Auguste Regine Marie Dorothea RÖTTCHER (93), Glückstadt Natal Südafrika
• Bernard Scholten (87)
• Acelino Alves (49)
• Carolina Franciska Gratama (79), Nunspeet
• Akke Veenstra (67), Gerkesklooster
• Anna Petronella Maria Jansen (70), Amsterdam
• Adrianus de Swart (84), Gilze en Rijen
• Cornelis Johannes Hamers (59), Breda
• Antje Vlig (86), Lemmer

• 1958 » Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1960 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1961 » Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer
• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna
• 1963 » Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1964 » Txiki Begiristain, Spanish footballer

• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
• March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
• April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• 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 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
• September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

The temperature on August 12, 1961 was between 6.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.