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• theodorus agnes gerardus de bruijn, helden-panningen
• Frans Georges Jerome Dick, Roeselare († 2017)
• Hillechien Bossen, Oostwolde († 2021)
• Infant Son Fuller, Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina († 1951)
• Linda Kay Nealy († 1993)
• Han Nauta († 2018)
• Frederik Johan Witting, Coevorden († 1994)
• Steven Eugene Stafford, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa († 1951)
• Liesbeth Lommen, Velden († 2013)
• Karel Hendrik van de Vooren († 1970)

• (+) MAECKELBERGH (0), Oostende,,BELGIUM,West-Vlaanderen
• Anneke Jansema (38), ........
• Adrianus Becht (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Visser (78), Rhoon
• Anna Maria Cornelia Houtepen (70), Helmond
• Arina Jacoba Los (69), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje de Bruin (59), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Jonkers (74), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antonius Johannes Martinus Willems (49), Haps
• Anna Maria Louisa Meijers (85), Stein, Limburg, 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 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
• 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.
• April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• April 25 » Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.

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.