About the day » Saturday October 27, 1951Calender converter

• N.N. Kooiman, Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johan Rudolf Veenvliet, Almelo († 2002)
• Anna Aleida Antonia Maria Tiemes († 2022)
• Nikolaas van der Plas, Katwijk († 2014)
• Jos Schuitemaker († 2003)
• Jan Hofman, Koudum († 1951)
• Rien Brenders, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Daryl Raymond WARD, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia († 1986)
• Maria Petronella Gemma Goosen, Kampen, ov.nld († 1952)
• Maria Cornelia (Ria) de Lange († 1951)

• Adriana Stolk (83), Dordrecht Z.H
• Arie Bijl van der (82), Benthuizen
• Arie van der Bijl (82), Leiden
• Antonia Stuijvenberg (49), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Poot (76), Bussum
• Arie van der Bijl (82), Leiden
• Alice Belle Lowman (78), Wilkinsburg, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Alice Louisa SOMMERS (KEY) (70), Shenstone, Staffordshire
• Adriana Maria Duijndam (42), Haarlem, Nederland
• Alijda Hendrika Wandscheer (84), Steenwijk

• 1950 » A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
• 1950 » Fran Lebowitz, American author
• 1950 » Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
• 1950 » Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
• 1951 » Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
• 1951 » Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
• 1951 » K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 » Nancy Jacobs, American politician
• 1952 » Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
• 1952 » Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1935 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 » Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
• 1944 » Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1953 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1957 » James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
• 1962 » Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (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. 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 3 » Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
• March 28 » First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
• April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• 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.
• May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

The temperature on October 27, 1951 was between 3.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.