About the day » Sunday August 6, 1961Calender converter

• Kees Verstraten († 2023)
• Joke Talsma, Hegebeintum († 2011)
• Marty John Vanderaa, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) († 1997)
• Marja Paula Catharina Rijsdijk († 2015)
• Sebastiaan Tichelaar, Geldrop († 2007)
• Johannes Schelling, Westmaas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• HendriKus Mol, Leiden († 2000)
• Pietje Mulderij, Nieuw Balinge (Gem. Westerbork) († 1992)
• Johan Nouwen († 2002)
• Hendricus "Hen" Mol, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• Cora van Tatenhove (64), Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Augusta Cornelia Lammers van Toorenburg (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Koning (74), Goes (Goes) (Zeeland)
• Clasina van Kampen, unbekannt
• Carolus BERGHMANS (68), Kontich Belgie
• Arie Slot (68), Laren, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Frederick BURNETTE (80), Wellington, New Zealand
• Anje Smits (72), Aalzum, Friesland, Nederland
• Augusta Cornelia Petronella Maria Lammers van Toorenburg (74), Amsterdam
• Adrian Dekkers (53), LeMars, Plymouth County, Iowa

• 1957 » Bob Horner, American baseball player
• 1957 » Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
• 1958 » Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1959 » Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
• 1960 » Dale Ellis, American basketball player
• 1961 » Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host
• 1962 » Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
• 1963 » Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
• 1963 » Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
• 1964 » Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist

• 1945 » Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1946 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1952 » Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)

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 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
• April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
• May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.

The temperature on August 6, 1961 was between 12.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.