About the day » Thursday August 16, 1951Calender converter

• N.N. Potveer, Obdam, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Wilhelmina Francina Maria Beckers, Overloon, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Jannie Hoogduin († 2022)
• Udie Damm († 1998)
• Jacob Sonneveld, Chatham, Ontario, Canada († 2016)
• Maria Angélica Brogna, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 2020)
• Debra Kay DeYoung († 2001)
• Annie Dumas († 2006)
• Ute Elfriede Damm, Frankfurt am Main, BDR († 1998)
• gerardus dorothea joachim (geert) ghielen, helden-beringe

• Annechien Wijtsema (66), Arnhem
• Arend Joukes Bosma (78), Westergeest
• Albertus BEUSKER (47), Gendringen, Oude IJsselstreek (NL)
• Adriaan Buijze (67), Bergen op Zoom, Nederland
• Antonie Andries van Wijk (48), Breda
• Joseph Marie Breijaert (77), Aardenburg
• Barendina de Bruijn (88), Polsbroek
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Rootlieb (72), Heemstede
• Brigid Cushnahan (58), County, Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Rootlieb (72), Heemstede

• 1948 » Earl Blumenauer, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon
• 1949 » Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1949 » Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach
• 1949 » Scott Asheton, American drummer († 2014)
• 1950 » Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian runner
• 1950 » Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
• 1950 » Naseeruddin Shah, Indian film and stage actor and director.
• 1951 » Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian businessman and politician, 13th President of Nigeria († 2010)
• 1953 » James "J.T." Taylor, American R&B singer-songwriter
• 1953 » Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)

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.
• January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
• March 14 » Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
• April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• October 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
• November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

The temperature on August 16, 1951 was between 6.1 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.