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• Gerritje Dijkslag, Veessen (Gem. Heerde) († 2008)
• NN Onderwater, Leiden († 1951)
• Gerda Costermans, Essen († 2012)
• Kees de Waal, Steenbergen(Welberg) († 2012)
• Woltertje Roelinda (Roelie) Beekelaar, Fluitenberg, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Mirtes Batista da Silva, Olinda, Pernambuco, Brasil († 2013)
• Reintje van Lingen, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada († 1971)
• Florentine Johanna ("Floor") Stroink, Enschede
• Bryce Dee Leatherwood, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Cnty, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• anna wilhelmina wilms, helden-dorp

• Afke Bakker (74), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Bernardus Kuipers (89), Klundert
• Adrianus van Velzen (74)
• Batje den Besten (40), Zwolle
• Anthony John VERMEER (39), Pella, Marion County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Ada Eliza Rosetta Crossley (82), Yass, Yass Valley Council, New South Wales, Australia
• Adriana Josephina Traa (71), Vught
• Afke Bakker (74), Buitenpost, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Ann Thomas (210)
• Alida Bosker (72), Hoofddorp

• 1948 » Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
• 1950 » Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
• 1951 » Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1952 » Randy Savage, American wrestler († 2011)
• 1952 » Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
• 1953 » Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
• 1953 » James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
• 1954 » Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
• 1954 » Emma Dent Coad, British politician
• 1954 » Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer

• 1941 » Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)

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 4 » Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• February 6 » The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• May 3 » The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
• May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.

The temperature on November 15, 1951 was between 5.0 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.