About the day » Saturday May 5, 1951Calender converter

• Maria Helena (mieke) Kolmer, Emmen († 2007)
• Lambertus Jacobus Augustinus Marie van Gansewinkel, Geleen, Limburg, Nederland († 2002)
• Dale Inez Keith, Hollandale, Washington County, Mississippi († 1951)
• Sijbrand van der Kraan († 2020)
• Marianne Kolmus, Apeldoorn († 2011)
• Albert James Michael (Bert) Smith, Rosynth, Schotland († 1984)
• Jannetje Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Marietje Wijermars, Wijhe
• John Collier ROBISON, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1999)
• Sir Robert George Mappin Fenwick, Auckland († 2020)

• Catharina Marinus (69), Amsterdam
• Alberta Willemina Sprokholt (73), Voorst
• Daniel Johnson Gallman (88), Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States
• Cornelis Arie den Haan (62), Strijen
• Alberta Korte (94), Kamrar, Hamilton County, Iowa
• Dirk Commandeur (61), Wieringermeer, North Holland, Netherlands
• Beertje Oostendorp (64), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Roffel (62), Groningen, Netherlands
• Conrad George Krahling (69), Lyon Co., IA
• Adriana Schild (64), Sliedrecht

• 1948 » Bella van der Spiegel-Hage, Dutch cyclist
• 1948 » Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
• 1949 » Eppie Bleeker, Dutch speed skater
• 1950 » Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer
• 1950 » Rex Caldwell, American golfer
• 1951 » Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach
• 1951 » Toomas Vilosius, Estonian physician and politician, 2nd Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia
• 1952 » Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco († 2017)
• 1952 » Jorge Llopart, Spanish race walker
• 1952 » Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician († 2014)

• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)

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 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
• February 13 » Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• 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.
• March 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
• October 3 » Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.

The temperature on May 5, 1951 was between 6.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.