What day of the week was Christmas 1961, December 25, 1961?

The day of the week December 25th, 1961 fell on was a Monday. It was Christmas Day.

Owen Brewster the American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888) died on this day in 1961. As did Otto Loewi the German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) .