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• Catherina Petronella Maria de Lauw, Venlo († 1999)
• dorothea gerarda mathea zelen, helden-egchel
• Dirk Johannes Dane, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)
• Mercedes Glorioso, Pagbilao (PH) († 2016)
• Jody Gonzales, Blanca, Zacatecas, México († 1952)
• Axel Lagergren, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Joseph K Espey, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 2015)
• NN Brondsema, Spijk, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Henriette Catharina Kuipers, Venlo († 1952)
• johanna martina den TUINDER, strijen († 1953)

• Alida Maria Uys Potgieter (47), Utrecht, Natal, South Africa
• Andreas Hendrikus Neelissen (79), Kwintsheul, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Hermanus Heemskerk (53), Curacao
• Anna Margareta Aartz (64), ,, Bergum, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Maarleveld (80), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van de Pol (76), Ermelo
• Annechien Veldkamp (64), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Dooren (73), Mierlo
• Areke Donker (68), Gameren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Nagtegaal (65), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1948 » Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1949 » Claudia Kolb, American swimmer
• 1949 » Orna Berry, Israeli computer scientist and businesswoman
• 1949 » Sebastian, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » Eleanor J. Hill, American lawyer and diplomat
• 1951 » Alan Rouse, English mountaineer and author († 1986)
• 1951 » Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian engineer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
• 1952 » Walter Murphy, American pianist and composer
• 1954 » Jeff Allam, English race car driver
• 1954 » Tim Parks, English author and translator

• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)

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.
• March 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• May 3 » The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
• June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
• July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
• July 20 » King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
• October 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

The temperature on December 19, 1951 was between 2.4 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.