About the day » Monday March 12, 1951Calender converter

• Doodgeboren kind van der Klugt, Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Peter Breuers, Amersfoort, Utrecht, NL († 2018)
• Geoffrey Alan SCOTT, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2008)
• Fred Rietveld, Leiden († 2008)
• Didier le POLAIN de WAROUX, Kinshasa (Congo) († 2016)
• Jan ten Dam, Oosterend
• Petronella Margaretha Maria van Duijn, Alkmaar († 2002)
• Marianna Cornelia Pieterson, Amsterdam († 2001)
• Linda Sykhuis, New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2021)
• Cornelis Johannes Maria Constant van den BERG, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2011)

• Prins (0), Harkstede, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Andriesz Eradus (55), Leiden
• Adrianus Bink (65), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrea Alfred (78), Safford, Graham County, Arizona, United States of America
• Andries de Jong (49), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Bink (65), Leiden
• Arthur GUINNESS (55)
• Ada Frances Federspiel (78), Kitchener, Waterloo Co., Ontario, Canada @ St. Mary's Hospital
• Arie Eradus (56), Leiden
• Arnoldus Franciscus Lehnen (77), Bracht

• 1948 » James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » Kent Conrad, American politician
• 1948 » Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• 1949 » David Mellor, British politician
• 1949 » Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 » Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1952 » André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
• 1952 » John Mitchell, English footballer, forward
• 1952 » Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
• 1953 » Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion

• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)

• 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.
• April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• 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.
• June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
• September 1 » The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

The temperature on March 12, 1951 was between 3.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.