About the day » Sunday August 27, 1961Calender converter

• Paulette Anemoon Schellekens, Alkmaar († 2012)
• Vicky Lynn Hood, Memphis, Tennessee
• Peter Nollet, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 1978)
• Jaap Profijt, Kerkenveld gem Hoogeveen († 2012)
• Jan Leppink, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1966)
• Jacob Profijt, Kerkenveld gem Hoogeveen († 2012)
• Jan Roseboom, Hattem
• Philippus Jacobis Idenburg, 's-Gravenhage († 1961)
• Greta Vermaat († 1963)
• Alistair Douglas Adrew Tee, Pretoria Zuid-Afrika († 1998)

• Adrianus Gijsbertus STRENG (51), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Leonhard (79), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Cornelia Roovers (37), Breda
• Catharina Maria Cornelia van Warmerdam (89), Amsterdam
• Albert Eggen (71), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Rensink (62)
• Antonius Franciscus Staps (57), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Cornelia van Warmerdam (89), Amsterdam
• Annie Nellij Bertha Fientje Klijn (46), Dongen
• antoon spanjer (66), amsterdam

• 1959 » Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
• 1959 » Denice Denton, American engineer and academic († 2006)
• 1959 » Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1959 » Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959 » Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
• 1961 » Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer
• 1961 » Mark Curry, English television host and actor
• 1961 » Steve McDowall, English rugby player
• 1961 » Tom Ford, American fashion designer
• 1961 » Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)

• 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 26 » John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first woman Physician to the President.
• February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
• October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
• November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
• November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
• December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

The temperature on August 27, 1961 was between 8.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.