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• Willem Teunis Hendrik van Zijderveld, Rijswijk (gemeente Maurik) († 1961)
• Bertje van Hunnik († 1962)
• Elisabeth de Bok, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Richard Workman († 1998)
• Ton RIJERKERK, De Lier († 2005)
• William Jan van de Merwe, Salt Lake City
• Michael Antony Stinessen, Marshall, Lyon County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Carine Huyghebaert, Roeselare († 1962)
• Barry Fitzgerald Cammann, Bakersfield, Kern Co., CA († 2008)
• Elisabeth de Bok, Leerdam († 2022)

• Catharina Johanna (Cato) van Esdonk (50), Veghel
• Antje Heijstek (35), Duiveland
• Antonia Hendrika van Eck (78), Nijkerk, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Francina Slooff (77), Ridderkerk
• Cornelia (Kee) de Groot (85), Vleuten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van Schilt (60), Nieuw Vossemeer,Noord-Brabant.NL
• Anna Helena Boonen (65), Eindhoven
• Anna Elisabeth Daris (59), Eindhoven
• Delia (CA) Butschli (83), San Francisco, California
• Bernardus van Zutphen (75), Hilversum

• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
• 1959 » Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
• 1960 » Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor and director
• 1960 » Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor († 2015)
• 1960 » Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
• 1961 » Angela Smith, English academic and politician
• 1961 » Christian Okoye, American football player
• 1962 » Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1963 » Christine Cavanaugh, American voice artist († 2014)

• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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. 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 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
• March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
• April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• June 19 » Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

The temperature on August 16, 1961 was between 12.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.