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• Hendrik (Henk) van den Hardenberg, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2019)
• Karel Hendrik van de Vooren († 1970)
• N.N. Stoelinga, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1951)
• Infant Son Fuller, Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina († 1951)
• Frans Georges Jerome Dick, Roeselare († 2017)
• Liesbeth Lommen, Velden († 2013)
• Robert van der Sijde, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Linda Kay Nealy († 1993)
• X MAECKELBERGH, Oostende, 8400, West-Vlaanderen, BELGIË († 1951)
• Hillechien Bossen, Oostwolde († 2021)

• Auguste Museeuw (84), Zande,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Arina Jacoba Los (69), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• August Johan Joseph Lindner (66), ,, Haarlem, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Becht (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anneke Jansema (38), scheemda
• Arendje de Graaff (39), Haarlem, prov. Noord Holland
• Adah Dell McClung (83), Dawson, WV Buried in Dolin Cemetery
• Bernard Jozef Rutten (79), Wanssum
• Antonius Johannes Martinus WILLEMS (49), Wanroij
• Alida Jonkers (74), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1950 » Mary Hart, American journalist and actress
• 1951 » Alfredo Astiz, Argentinian captain
• 1951 » Gerald Alston, American R&B singer
• 1951 » Larry Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Laura Cox, English lawyer and judge
• 1951 » Peter Suber, American philosopher and academic
• 1952 » Christie Hefner, American publisher and businesswoman
• 1952 » Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
• 1952 » Jerry Remy, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1952 » John Denny, American baseball player and coach

• 1934 » Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)
• 1944 » Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 » August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
• 1949 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 » John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
• 1965 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)

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.
• January 4 » Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• February 13 » Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• March 3 » Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
• March 7 » Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran.
• May 3 » London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
• 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.

The temperature on November 8, 1951 was between 7.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.