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• Francisus Henricus Petrus Maria Schaapsmeerders, Boxtel († 1951)
• Wilhelmina Hendrika Anna Janssen, Geleen († 1980)
• Allen Eugene Knott Jr, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Marlene J Willhite, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1976)
• Geertje Abeltje Geertruida JAGER, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2010)
• Maaike Eintes de Haan († 2001)
• Ida Gezina de Boer, Bardel Duitsland († 2016)
• Maartje in 't Veld, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Margaretha Hopman, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1951)
• Lubbertus Jan Kwakkel, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2003)

• Bernard Wilhelm Johan Casper ter Heerdt (72), Wassenaar
• Adrianus Flohil (66), Zeist
• Anton Frederik Philips (77), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van de Snepscheut (57), Tilburg
• Alida Bakker (63), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Afke de Haan (54), Irnsum
• Benardus Gerardus Verdegaal (0), Vogelenzang, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard A G Vroklage (53), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Snepscheut van de (57), Tilburg, NB, Nederland
• Bernardus Gerardus Verdegaal (0), Vogelenzang

• 1949 » Dave Hope, American bass player and priest
• 1950 » Dick Jauron, American football player and coach
• 1950 » Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
• 1951 » Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
• 1951 » John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1952 » Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
• 1952 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1952 » Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 1953 » Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright († 2014)
• 1953 » Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor

• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

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 4 » Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• 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.
• April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
• April 29 » Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.

The temperature on October 7, 1951 was between 2.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.