About the day » Saturday October 20, 1951Calender converter

• Joseph Jack Anderson **, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland († 2007)
• Willy Henny Haak, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2017)
• Toos Hendriks, Baarle-Nassau,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2021)
• René Paula Mertens, Kalmthout († 1952)
• Marjoke Apking, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Johannes Antonius Maria Ambergen, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2005)
• Marianne van Steen, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2023)
• Ardina Cornelia Maria (Ardie) van Grinsven, 's Hertogenbosch († 2013)
• Curt Ramsey († 1951)
• Cor Walstra, Den Helder († 2014)

• Derk Bos (89), IJsselmuiden
• August Wilhelm Adolph Scharlau (72), at home
• 4e: MARIA PARDON (87), Leiden
• Daniel Stomps (52), Rotterdam
• Carolina Hendrika Brinkman (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Bakker (74), Oegstgeest
• Carolina Witkamp (73), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Siemens Dam (79), Leeuwarden
• Arie Collens (64), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Joanna Cornelissen (66), Tilburg

• 1950 » Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2017)
• 1950 » William Russ, American actor and director
• 1951 » Al Greenwood, American keyboard player
• 1951 » Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1951 » Ken Ham, Australian-American evangelist
• 1951 » Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish businessman and politician
• 1951 » Patrick Hall, English lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Derek Ridgers, English photographer and art director
• 1952 » Melanie Mayron, American actress and director
• 1952 » Wilma Josefina Salgado, Ecuadorian politician and economist

• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)

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. 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 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
• March 6 » Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• 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 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
• December 22 » The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.

The temperature on October 20, 1951 was between 5.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.