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• Marie-France Nelly Roberte Beernaert, Comines,7780,Hainaut,België († 2007)
• Antoon Kamphuijs, Musselkanaal († 1974)
• Nicolaas Antonius van der Pijl, Alphen aan den Rijn († 2015)
• Margaretha Wilhelmina Gesina van Ankeren, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gerrit Kooistra, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1997)
• Marianne Baarslag, Ommen († 2012)
• Arian Willem (Ariejan Kout, Edam, Nederland († 2010)
• Leravene Mae Sas, Lincoln, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Maria van den Bergh, Den Haag
• Johannes Antonius Spanenburg, Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)

• Albertus Johannes Langenacker (35), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria DEKKER (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arturo Engel (66), Guatemala
• Bregje BOUWMAN (81), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Claassen (78), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Agatha Hendrika Petronella Zoost (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Timmer (73), Epe
• Arie Bot (66), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arturo Jacobo Engel (66), Guatemala City, Guatemala
• Bernardus Aalsters (71), Noordwijkerhout

• 1948 » Elliott Abrams, American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist
• 1948 » Michael Des Barres, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1949 » Bart Gordon, American lawyer
• 1949 » John Belushi, American actor and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1949 » Nadezhda Ilyina, Russian athlete and mother of Russian tennis player Nadia Petrova († 2013)
• 1949 » Rihoko Yoshida, Japanese voice actress
• 1950 » Daniel Auteuil, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1951 » Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American comedian and actor
• 1953 » Moon Jae-in, 19th President of South Korea
• 1953 » Yuri Bashmet, Russian violinist, viola player, and conductor

• 1939 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)
• 1943 » John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)
• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)

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.
• 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 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• May 3 » London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• October 16 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

The temperature on January 24, 1951 was between 0.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.