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• Helena Maria Vriends, Coevorden
• Christina Tineke Buijs († 2022)
• Monique Michaela Löesink, Amsterdam
• Willem Koops († 1999)
• Jeffery Neal Webb, Granite City, Madison, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1972)
• Heidi HASLER, Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States of America († 1961)
• Satinah Orkay jellema († 1961)
• Trinette Margaretha (Netty) van der Wel, De Lier, Nederland († 2018)
• Johannis Cornelis Walhout, Haamstede, Zeeland, Nederland († 1987)

• Bartele DOESBURG (23), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Alice Ann Campbell (84), Delaplaine, Green, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Benjamin Sumner WELLES (68), Bernardsville,, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Petronella Sondaar (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina G. van Velzel (68)
• * Marinus Gijsbert van Hattem (77), Leerdam
• Allart van Vloten (78), Baarn, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina de Kok (70), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Loomans (75), Asten
• Derk Jans van der Wal (69), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland

• 1960 » Amy Sky, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1960 » Tony Juniper, English environmentalist and politician
• 1961 » Christopher L. Eisgruber, American lawyer and academic
• 1961 » John Logan, American screenwriter and producer
• 1961 » Luc Picard, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1962 » Ilgvars Zalāns, Latvian painter
• 1962 » Mike Phelan, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1962 » Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress and screenwriter
• 1962 » Tim Supple, English director and producer

• 1945 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1950 » Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
• 1962 » Charles Reisner, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1973 » August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Earle Cabell, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Philip Gbeho, Ghanaian composer and educator (b. 1904)
• 1978 » James Bassett, American journalist and author (b. 1912)

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 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
• September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
• 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 24, 1961 was between 11.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.