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• Marc DECANTERE, Lier, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2020)
• Maria Irma Coleta Louisa melis, Vorselaar († 2015)
• Maartje Bond, Edam Volendam († 2018)
• levenloos Huijdts, Barneveld, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 1951)
• Barendina Johanna Rademakers, Rotterdam († 1951)
• Henricus Leonardus Joannes van den Brekel, Tilburg († 1951)
• Sonja Vinckier, Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1951)
• Augusta Hermina Guurtje de Rover, Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Herbert WORTMANN († 1951)
• Antonius Vink, Noordwijk († 2018)

• Cornelis Dekker (79), Medemblik
• Arie Hendrikus Groeneveld (93), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Petronella Maria Gaijkema (82), Leiden
• Catharina Magelina Kroonen (76)
• Cornelis Petrus Boers (56), Utrecht
• Cornelis Dekker (79), Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annette Jansen (71)
• Anthony Kiefer (78), Perryville, Perry, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Willemina Burgers (79), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kleintjens (57), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland

• 1949 » Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 » Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (April Wine) († 2017)
• 1949 » Tabitha King, American author and poet
• 1950 » Gary Wichard, American football player and agent († 2011)
• 1951 » Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach
• 1951 » Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player
• 1951 » Pat Bradley, American golfer
• 1951 » Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1951 » Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
• 1952 » Greg McCrary, American football player († 2013)

• 1940 » Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1944 » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 » Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

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.
• March 28 » First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
• March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
• April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• April 29 » Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The temperature on March 24, 1951 was between 0.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.