About the day » Wednesday January 24, 1951Calender converter

• Ronald John de Weerd, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2020)
• Arian Willem (Ariejan Kout, Edam, Nederland († 2010)
• Lucas Eugene Tolson Jr († 2002)
• Antoon Kamphuijs, Musselkanaal († 1974)
• Philippus Johannes Cornelius George van Hinsbergen, Johannesburg, Suid-Afrika († 2003)
• Bennie Wieskamp, Didam († 1952)
• Jimmy BESSELL († 2016)
• Marianne Baarslag, Ommen († 2012)
• Berendina Johanna Zeinstra, Haarlemmermeer († 2023)
• Hetty Terhorst, Enschede († 2002)

• Barbara Claassen (78), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Jan Quartel (55), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth DRIES (63), Genk (Limburg) (B)
• Abel Pieter Siebers (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arturo Engel (66), Guatemala
• Albertus Johannes Langenacker (35), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bessie Gerena Carlisle (61), Wilmington, New Hannover County, North Carolina
• Adriana Catharina Rethans (76), Delft, The Netherlands
• Anna DE BOCK (41)
• Antonius Timmer (73), Epe

• 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.
• 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.
• March 6 » Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• March 14 » Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
• March 15 » Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
• July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• December 24 » Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.

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.