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• Birgitta Maria Crooijmans, Leiden († 2004)
• Gea Gerrits († 1956)
• Arnolles Keuter, Urk, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1984)
• Aletta Magdalena Paans, Loon op Zand († 2006)
• Johanna van Eeden, Eindhoven († 2007)
• Margot Yvonne Drenth († 1955)
• N.N. Graumans, Nieuw-Ginneken († 1951)
• Arnolles Keuter († 2021)
• Cok TIGCHELAAR, Rotterdam († 2008)
• Patrick Dean Moon, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, VS († 1992)

• Age de Vries (82), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alice Susan Godolphin Osborne (81)
• Dirk Stok (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius van Kampen (71), Noordwijk
• Christiaan Verbrugge (84), Brielle
• Antonius (Toon) van Kampen (71), Noordwijk
• Dirk Stok (63), Rotterdam ZH Nederland
• David Tromp (40), Zwollerkerspel, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Peter SANDER (77), Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Gijsbertha Huisman (78)

• 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)

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.
• February 13 » Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• March 20 » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• 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.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• November 15 » Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

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.