About the day » Monday March 12, 1951Calender converter

• Martina Louisa vd Goorbergh, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Petronella Margaretha Maria van Duijn, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Aafke ELZINGA, Opende (Grootegast) Groningen Netherlands († 1989)
• Geoffrey Alan SCOTT, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2008)
• Prins, Harkstede, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Anna Maria Antonia van Beek, Alphen en Riel († 2010)
• Jan Wagter, Katwijk († 1951)
• Susan Leann Ahrenholz
• Martina Louisa van de Goorbergh, Fijnaart, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Johannes de Wit, Dinteloord († 1953)

• Antonij Maas (80), Helmond
• August Dombrecht (79), Oostveld, Oedelem, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Antonius van den Braak (78), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Verkaik (57), Krimpen aan de Lek
• Arthur Rundell Guinness (55)
• Andrea Jensen (78), Safford, Graham County, Arizona, United States of America
• Adrianus Bink (65), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukjen Tjallings de Boer (86), Leeuwarden
• Alva Eugene James (78)
• Antonius van den Braak (78), Tilburg

• 1948 » James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » Kent Conrad, American politician
• 1948 » Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• 1949 » David Mellor, British politician
• 1949 » Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 » Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1952 » André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
• 1952 » John Mitchell, English footballer, forward
• 1952 » Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
• 1953 » Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion

• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)

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. Jacob
15. John
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.
• January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
• February 27 » The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• March 14 » Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
• April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• October 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

The temperature on March 12, 1951 was between 3.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.