About the day » Tuesday October 16, 1951Calender converter

• Jimmy Don Thompson, Paris, Logan County, Arkansas, United States of America († 2012)
• Hermanus P G Smits, Weurt, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Marinus Albertus RUTERINK, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Bea Van Campenhout, Hasselt, België († 2011)
• Paul Verheggen, Sittard († 2020)
• Antonius Wilhelmus van den Brand, Vught
• Agnes-johanna-maria Jaspers († 2011)
• Klaas van den Broek, Leerdam († 1951)
• Antonius Franciscus Hemker, Amsterdam († 1966)
• Martinus Pieter Kraaieveld († 2005)

• Arie Kieboom (88), Made en Drimmelen
• Arisje Frederiks Mol (61), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Brans (61)
• Antonius Hendrikus Welij, van (66), Veenendaal Utr. NL
• Aaltje Boon (76), Bergen (Noord-Holland)
• Aleida Johanna Maria Snijders (50), Hengelo
• Alix comtesse de Beauffort (75), Overyssche
• Auke Eesges Westerhof (31), Bergum, Friesland, Netherlands
• * Geerdina van Heijnsbergen (76), Beek en Donk
• Adrianus Jaspers (63), Hoeven (Tilburg)

• 1948 » Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
• 1948 » Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
• 1950 » Angry Grandpa, American internet personality († 2017)
• 1950 » Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer († 2015)
• 1952 » Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Cordell Mosson, American bass player († 2013)
• 1952 » Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright († 2019)
• 1952 » Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
• 1953 » Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Peter
9. Petrus
10. Robert
11. Jacobus
12. Adrianus
13. Hendrikus
14. John
15. Jacob
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Margaretha
12. Marianne
13. Jacoba
14. Yvonne
15. Linda
16. Geertruida

• 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
• February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
• April 22 » Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.

The temperature on October 16, 1951 was between 1.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.