About the day » Tuesday October 16, 1951Calender converter

• Daniel Wallace Dornbush, Eureka (Aurora, South Dakota, USA) († 2004)
• Petronella Stephanie Maria Stroop, Heerle († 2019)
• N.n. Ista, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Aart Slok, Veenendaal († 1998)
• Byron John Kaiser, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2004)
• Antonius Franciscus Hemker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• n.n. Dijkhuis, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Marinus Albertus RUTERINK, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Antonius Franciscus Hemker, Amsterdam († 1966)
• Anje Jantje Dijkema, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1960)

• Anna Margaretha Hendrika Rusken (78), Manderveen
• Armand GRAINDORGE (75), Esneux, Liège, Belgique
• Barend Manschot (74), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Hendrikus Welij, van (66), Veenendaal Utr. NL
• Antonie Maria Emilie Gastell (84), Schwanheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
• Antonius Hubertus Maas (60), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Kieboom (88), Made en Drimmelen
• Alida Elizabeth Vermolen (58), Harmelen
• Anna Margaretha Hendrika Ruschen (78), Manderveen
• Adrianus Jaspers (63), Hoeven (Tilburg)

• 1948 » Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
• 1948 » Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
• 1950 » Angry Grandpa, American internet personality († 2017)
• 1950 » Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer († 2015)
• 1952 » Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Cordell Mosson, American bass player († 2013)
• 1952 » Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright († 2019)
• 1952 » Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
• 1953 » Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)

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.
• January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
• April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• December 22 » The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.

The temperature on October 16, 1951 was between 1.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.