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• Kind Spanhak, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jan van Eck († 2002)
• Franciscus Maria Petrus Felicia van Eeden, 's-Gravenhage († 2009)
• Wal Laurense († 2005)
• Nicolaas Johannes Hendrikus (Harry) Nijsten, Geleen, Limburg, Netherlands († 2020)
• Gery STELPSTRA, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2013)
• Richard Glen van Sloten, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2013)
• Maria Hanson
• Fredericus Albertus Karskens, Voorburg († 2000)
• Lambertus Augustinus Maria Koenders, Renkum († 2017)

• Alvena Louisa PLEGGENKUHLE (66), Hawkeye,Fayette,Iowa Territory,ÉTATS-UNIS d'AMÉRIQUE
• Anne Kornelis Gros (86)
• Amelia Neumann, Lafayette, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Hubertina Haenen (84), Venlo
• Alida Keg (74)
• Anna Catharina van Zwaal (69), Zuilen, Utrecht, NL
• Arend Jan de Jong (67), Deventer
• Anna Maria Hubertina Haenen (84)
• Arnoldus Antonius Bergevoet (79), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Beatrix Hoogesteger (78), 's Gravenhage

• 1949 » R. A. MacAvoy, American computer programmer and author
• 1949 » Robert Lindsay, English actor and singer
• 1950 » Julia Slingo, English meteorologist and academic
• 1950 » Linda Bellos, English businesswoman and politician
• 1950 » Tom Vilsack, American lawyer and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1950 » Wendie Malick, American actress, model and comedian
• 1952 » Jean Rouaud, French author
• 1952 » John Francome, English jockey and sportscaster
• 1952 » Junkyard Dog, American football player and wrestler († 1998)
• 1952 » Larry Kenon, American basketball player

• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
• 1954 » John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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.
• March 7 » Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
• March 15 » Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
• 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 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.
• October 16 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

The temperature on December 13, 1951 was between -7.4 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.