About the day » Monday May 21, 1951Calender converter

• N.N. Bouwmeester, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Gerrit Jantinus Gerhardus Vos († 2003)
• Vegel Warren Bosch, Rock County, Minnesota († 1961)
• Gerrit Willem Borghuis, enter († 2012)
• Alfred Veldhuizen, Zeist († 1992)
• Lynn Ray Pals († 1951)
• James Allen DeMaster, Sheboygan, Wisconsin († 2016)
• Agnes Maria WALRAVEN, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2021)
• Anneke Bouwmeester, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Peter J.E.M. DE VRUGHT († 1996)

• Dirk Zeldenthuis (74), Mijdrecht, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Earl Neal Doornbos (28), Grand Rapids (Kent, Michigan, USA)
• (76), Wuustwezel, Provincie Antwerpen Belgie
• Cornelis van Duijvenbode (89), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Aerts (83), Alphen en Riel
• Dugald Frederick McKellar (70), Emu Plains, New South Wales, Australia
• Edouard Burchard Jean Elias (78), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• adriana maria de Rooij (68), breda
• Adrianus Johannes Cornelis Dekkers (57), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur Herbert Batkin (75), Staffordshire, Stafford, England

• 1948 » Elizabeth Buchan, English author and critic
• 1948 » Joe Camilleri, Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
• 1949 » Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and academic
• 1949 » Denis O'Connor, British police officer
• 1949 » Rosalind Plowright, English soprano
• 1950 » Will Hutton, English economist and journalist
• 1951 » Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge († 2016)
• 1951 » Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician
• 1952 » Mr. T, American actor and wrestler
• 1953 » Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording artist

• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (b. 1888)
• 1949 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1952 » John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1956 » Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
• 1957 » Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1964 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Marguerite Bise, French chef (b. 1898)

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. Geertruida
16. Linda

• 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.
• February 9 » Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• May 3 » London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
• July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
• November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
• November 15 » Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

The temperature on May 21, 1951 was between 6.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.