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• Willem Christiaan van Schaik
• Albert Jan Velten, enter
• Mirose Rose-Marie Delrue, Roeselare
• Petra Quaedackers († 1975)
• Tarcísio Reitz, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• David Andrew VanderVeen, Grand Rapids (Kent), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Roger Kriene Christians, Rock Rapids, Lynn County, Iowa († 2020)
• Mariska Griselda Harris, Paramaribo, Suriname († 2009)
• N. N. Deprest, North Hollywood, Calefornië, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Cornelia Helena Maria van Elk

• 3- JOHANNUS-PETRUS(JAN) VAN RIJN (62)
• Arend Blankenstein (78)
• Cornelis Zandbergen (81), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth van den Bos (88), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amos Phylector Spangler Sr. (70)
• Ate Reitsma (51), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Cornelis Bremer (92), Breda
• Adriaantje Cornelia Bremer (92), Breda
• Anthonie Albertus van Lunsen (76), Utrecht
• Adriaantje Cornelia Bremer (92), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1959 » Kurtis Blow, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1959 » Michael Kors, American fashion designer
• 1961 » Brad Gilbert, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1961 » John Key, New Zealand businessman and politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1962 » John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player († 2015)
• 1962 » Kevin Mack, American football player
• 1962 » Louis Lipps, American football player and radio host
• 1963 » Barton Lynch, Australian surfer
• 1963 » Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1963 » Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress († 2012)

• 1948 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874)
• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)

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 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.
• February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
• May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
• June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
• November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

The temperature on August 9, 1961 was between 10.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.