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• Petrus Gerardus Maria (Piet) van der Zon, Lisse († 2013)
• Orlando Safanelli, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2008)
• Hendrik Kolk, Ruinen († 1994)
• martines cornelis hubertus (math) houben, stein (limburg)
• Sibren Hoekstra, Lemmer, Friesland, Nederland († 2010)
• hendricus johannes petrus (henk) kuijpers, helden-beringe
• Johannes Hermannus Molenaar, Den Helder († 2001)
• Aletta Magdalena Paans, Loon op Zand († 2006)
• Larry James Kuntz, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Marion Stella Ruijvekamp, Hengelo († 2010)

• Adeline Joseph PLUQUIN (77), Lille,59000,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Antonius van Kampen (71), Noordwijk
• Albert Peter SANDER (77), Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anton Gerrit Christiaan Wunderink (3), Gorssel
• Anna Margaretha Steffens (65), Hesepertwist, Dld
• Antje Kruijer (84), Heerhugowaard
• Adrianus van der Heijden (69), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Winterwerp (83), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Berend Winterwerp (83), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alice Susan Godolphin Osborne (81)

• 1949 » Erik Estrada, American actor
• 1949 » Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer
• 1950 » Edhem Šljivo, Bosnian footballer
• 1950 » Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
• 1950 » Peter Forster, English bishop
• 1951 » Abdelmajid Bourebbou, Algerian footballer
• 1951 » Alexandre Gonzalez, French long-distance runner
• 1951 » Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
• 1951 » Oddvar Brå, Norwegian skier
• 1951 » Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1945 » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1957 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Leon Cadore, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1961 » Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903)
• 1961 » Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
• 1965 » Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882)

• 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.
• February 6 » The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
• February 7 » Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
• February 9 » Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea
• April 22 » Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on March 16, 1951 was between -0.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.