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• Theodorus Antonius Maria Kaandorp ***, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Wilhelmus Hendricus Cornelis Beers, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer († 2014)
• Cornelis Hendricus Joannes Kester, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Dirk Willem Evertse, Zaandam († 2009)
• Richard van Raan, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Maria Consuelo Schlichting, Amsterdam († 2004)
• Jerry Vance Kittrell [K USS-WULF], Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina († 2016)
• Mettje Apollonia Schop, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2015)
• Gerardus C. M. Post († 1967)
• Gerardus C.M. Post († 1967)

• Dora Wagner (78), St. Louis Co., Missouri
• Dirk Johannes van Vliet (76), Rotterdam
• Albertus Bergman (56), Leeuwarden
• Charles Collins Harryman (80), Maryland, United States of America
• Cornelia Agnes Verhoeven (59), Tilburg
• IJmtjeliena Kremer (56), Zwolle
• Carolina Johanna Maria Adriana Witkam (42), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Bosschaart (74), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Voogd (63)
• Abraham Keesje (70), Kerkrade (Limburg)

• 1949 » Leslie Moonves, American businessman
• 1949 » Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
• 1949 » Penny Junor, English journalist and author
• 1949 » Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » David Brin, American physicist and author
• 1951 » Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator
• 1951 » Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver († 1985)
• 1951 » Gavin Sutherland, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1952 » Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author

• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

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. Jacob
15. John
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 27 » The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• March 20 » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• April 25 » Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
• 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.
• October 16 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

The temperature on October 6, 1951 was between 6.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.