About the day » Wednesday February 7, 1951Calender converter

• Jacques Mouton, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2010)
• Louise Courbois, Wageningen, Ned
• Rita Rosine ANDRIES, Geraardsbergen, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2003)
• Sonja Sara Eleonora Kortes († 2014)
• James Andrew Vandenberg, Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Joke C Teurlings, Casteren, NB Netherlands († 1983)
• Jenny ESPEEL, Sint-Eloois-Winkel († 2023)
• Hans Conijn, Fremantle, Australie († 1968)
• Marianne Ahrens, amsterdam, Nederland († 2005)
• Antje Berends Wierenga, Marknesse († 1952)

• Anna Margaretha Antonia Hubertina Doensen (82), Swalmen
• Albert baron Houtart (63)
• Anna Margaretha Antonia Hubertina DOENSEN (82), Swalmen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Becholz (53), Kerkade
• Adriana Catharina Brusik (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Lont (83), Wieringen
• Adriaan Quist (86), Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Brusik (63), Rotterdam
• Arie VERLOOP (65), Alblasserdam
• Abraham Troostheide (60), Amsterdam

• 1946 » Héctor Babenco, Argentinian-Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1946 » Pete Postlethwaite, English actor († 2011)
• 1946 » Sammy Johns, American country music singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1949 » Jacques Duchesneau, Canadian police officer and politician
• 1949 » Joe English, American drummer and songwriter
• 1950 » Karen Joy Fowler, American author
• 1953 » Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet († 1998)
• 1954 » Dieter Bohlen, German singer-songwriter and producer
• 1955 » Miguel Ferrer, American actor and director († 2017)
• 1955 » Rolf Benirschke, American football player and game show host

• 1938 » Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1886)
• 1942 » Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Daniel François Malan, South African minister and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Guitar Slim, American singer and guitarist (b. 1926)
• 1959 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1960 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)

• 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.
• April 25 » Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
• July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• July 16 » King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• November 2 » Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

The temperature on February 7, 1951 was between 0.5 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.