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• Larry Edward Van Dyken, Michigan (State) († 1951)
• Albert Eric John (Rick) Spiegelaar, Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) († 2007)
• Pamela Gruizenga, Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Glenn E Myers († 2007)
• Anko Willem Achterhof, Gorinchem
• Albertus (Bertus) van der Velde, Bruchterveld
• Shirley Anne Pipher, Endicott, Broome, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Louise Elisabeth Cornelia (Loes) van den Hengel, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Jan Alserda, Sebaldeburen, 9862, Nederland († 2005)
• N.N. van Raai, Amersfoort, Utr, NL

• Aaltje Meijering (26), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abílio José Pinto de Carvalho (87), Urca, Rio de Janeiro
• Apolonia de Goeij (0), Leiden
• Dirkje Aaldijk (54), Rotterdam
• * Teunis Gortenmulder (70), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Smulders (70), Tilburg
• Diana Louise Richardson (0), Raymond Canada
• David St. Cyr (85), Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Lindhout (83), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalt Leusink (60), Zwolle, Nederland

• 1949 » Ann Murray, Irish soprano
• 1949 » Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Leah Jamieson, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
• 1950 » Charles Fleischer, American comedian and actor
• 1950 » Edmund Weiner, English lexicographer and author
• 1950 » Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter
• 1951 » Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 » Mack Brown, American football player and coach
• 1951 » Randall Garrison, American-Canadian criminologist and politician
• 1952 » Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian

• 1944 » Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)
• 1945 » Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer, designed the Petőfi Bridge (b. 1894)
• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)

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. 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.
• January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
• January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
• 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.
• May 23 » Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
• September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

The temperature on August 27, 1951 was between 10.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.