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• van der Vaart, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1951)
• Petrus Maas, Halsteren († 1953)
• Lois Lynn van Hemert, Fremont, Newaygo County, Michigan († 2023)
• Jean-Pierre Calès, Belvès,24170,Dordogne,Nouvelle-Aquitaine,FRANCE († 1951)
• Terry Lee Huckins, OREGON († 1951)
• Piet Buijs, Melissant († 2004)
• Marlo James Top, Southgate, California († 2019)
• Jacobus Harms, Velsen
• Gerrit Horstman, Landsmeer († 1954)
• Brian Robert Kennedy, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2003)

• Adriana Petronella Maria Box (47), Bergeijk
• charles louis DESTREBECQ (73)
• Cornelis van Oirschot (82), Venlo
• Altje Poort (44), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Asa William Freeman (74), unbekannt
• Bastiaan van DALEN (83), Rotterdam
• Carrie J Jacobs (78), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Josina Knaap (61)
• Carla De Martini
• Egbert Vugteveen (0), Hardenberg

• 1947 » Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer
• 1948 » Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge, United States Supreme Court Justice
• 1949 » Gordon Bray, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1949 » Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes, English accountant and politician
• 1951 » Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American political scientist, activist, and academic, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy
• 1951 » Michèle Mouton, French race car driver and manager
• 1951 » Raj Babbar, Indian actor and politician
• 1953 » Armen Sarkissian, Armenian physicist, politician and current President of Armenia
• 1955 » Glenn Danzig, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1955 » Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and politician

• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
• 1954 » Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1959 » Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
• 1970 » Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (b. 1946)

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.
• February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
• April 11 » Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
• 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.
• July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• July 10 » Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
• December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

The temperature on June 23, 1951 was between 13.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.