About the day » Saturday September 2, 1961Calender converter

• Marcel Peter Hubertus Marie Niessen, Blerick († 1963)
• Steven de Lange, Nieuwkoop,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Annemiek Marjolein Barmentloo, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Johan Bernhard Schrik, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Levenloos kind Timmer, Hierden
• Bert Aspers, Weert,, Limburg, Nederland († 1999)
• NN Schippers, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1961)
• NN Schippers, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Levenloos kind SCHOT, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)

• Anna Maria Breuls (79)
• Catharina Leijten (66), Leiden
• Arnold Meuter (53), Deventer
• Cornelis Hubertus Maas (70), Bladel en Netersel
• Catharina Ansems (86), Baarle-Hertog (België)
• Antoon Meilink (63), Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Arie Baars (70), Dordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bortileth Beers (85), Montana, Warren, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie van Zelst (74), Sprang-Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie van Dalen (72), Dordrecht

• 1960 » Eric Dickerson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
• 1960 » Rex Hudler, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer and manager
• 1961 » Ron Wasserman, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1962 » Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician († 2012)
• 1962 » Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Keir Starmer, English lawyer and politician
• 1962 » Prachya Pinkaew, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Tracy Smothers, American wrestler

• 1953 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)
• 1962 » William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1965 » Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1973 » Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)

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. 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 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• 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.
• May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• September 17 » The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on September 2, 1961 was between 16.2 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.