About the day » Wednesday September 27, 1961Calender converter

• Delores Ann Spoelstra († 1961)
• Wayne Arnold Potter († 2006)
• Diane Mommaerts, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2003)
• Kevin Keith Hendrix († 2015)
• Stephanie Gullickson, Fargo, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Mark Moeskops, Turnhout, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1985)
• Mark Niessen, Den Dolder gem.Zeist
• James Waagmeester, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2019)
• Gustave Acilles Bastiaan van Haver, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)

• Albert Plaggenmarsch (56)
• Dirkje Swennen (78), Amsterdam
• Ann King (72), Devon, England
• Abele Boonstra (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Vreugde (83), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus van Gog (63), Rotterdam
• Barend Hendrik Albert Engelsman (74), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Friedrich Wilhelm van Zwieten (66), Amsterdam
• Bernard Hermanus Eskes (75), Almen, Nederland
• Aldegonda Jansen (75), Lommel

• 1958 » Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright
• 1958 » Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist
• 1960 » Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1963 » Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host
• 1964 » Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer († 2013)
• 1964 » Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer († 2012)
• 1964 » Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1964 » Tracy Camp, American computer scientist and academic

• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)
• 1960 » Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1965 » William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887)
• 1972 » S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)

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.
• May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• 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.
• July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
• July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.

The temperature on September 27, 1961 was between 11.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.