About the day » Monday September 11, 1961Calender converter

• Filiep Ernest Michel Stragier, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1961)
• Frank van der Pas, Boxtel († 1999)
• Rita Ann Haggenjos, Erie, Pennsylvania († 1962)
• Jean François AMEYE, Izegem, 36008, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1961)
• Joseph Martin, Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Peter Johan van der Meij, Katwijk († 1967)
• Jean-Francois Ameye, Izegem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1961)
• Ria (Klazes) de Vries
• Angelien Last († 2014)
• Linda Norella Royston

• Arie Gommel (74), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arent Hoogeveen (83), Hoogeveen nederland
• Berend (Jans) Apeldoorn (69), Leiden
• Andries Jan Looise (52), Vlissingen, Nederland
• ARTHUR - LOUIS - JOSEPH VANNESTE (50)
• Hapers Joannes Augustinus (75), Wortel, Antwerpen, België
• Belva Dunlap (62), Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, United States of America
• Arent Hoogeveen (83), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anke Hummel (87)
• anne bergsma (78), alkmaar

• 1960 » Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Michael P. Leavitt, American soldier
• 1961 » Elizabeth Daily, American actress
• 1961 » Philip Ardagh, English author
• 1961 » Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator († 2012)
• 1961 » Virginia Madsen, American actress
• 1962 » Filip Dewinter, Belgian politician
• 1962 » Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
• 1962 » Kristy McNichol, American actress
• 1962 » Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian pianist and composer

• 1956 » Billy Bishop, Canadian colonel and pilot (b. 1894)
• 1957 » James Burns, English cricketer (b. 1866)
• 1957 » Mary Proctor, American astronomer (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Camillien Houde, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Robert W. Service, English-French poet and author (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Paul Douglas, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1964 » Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian poet and critic (b. 1917)
• 1965 » Ralph C. Smedley, American educator, founded Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines (b. 1889)
• 1967 » Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer and academic (b. 1904)

• 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 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
• February 15 » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
• 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.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• October 31 » In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.

The temperature on September 11, 1961 was between 10.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.