About the day » Friday April 13, 1951Calender converter

• Franklin Gersom Oldenstam († 2018)
• Peter M Everett († 1983)
• Berend Jan van der Vegt, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Netten, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Benardus Gerardus Verdegaal, Vogelenzang, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Roelof Prins, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1963)
• Pietertje Baukje Dijkstra, Exmorra († 1951)
• Donald Duthoy, Brugge, België († 1951)
• Ronald Arthur Mason († 1984)
• Nicolaas van der Velden († 2004)

• Celine Celina Gelinne (64), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Arend van Ommen (85), Oldebroek
• Abraham Nijenhuis (63), Enschede
• Aaltje Kleis Huisman (87), Rotsterhaule
• Berendina de Vries (64), Emmen
• David Emery Boyer (57), Tulare California
• Christina LEEUWENBURGH (82), Heinenoord
• Christiaan Jager (67), Kiel-Windeweer, Hoogezand,, Groningen, Nederland
• Christina Leeuwenburg (82), Heinenoord
• Adriana Grietje van Gent (71), Ridderkerk

• 1950 » Ron Perlman, American actor
• 1950 » Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1951 » Joachim Streich, German footballer and manager
• 1951 » Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic
• 1951 » Max Weinberg, American drummer
• 1951 » Peabo Bryson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 » Peter Davison, English actor
• 1952 » David Drew, English lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Gabrielle Gourdeau, Canadian writer († 2006)
• 1952 » Sam Bush, American mandolin player

• 1941 » Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863)
• 1941 » William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (b. 1879)
• 1942 » Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879)
• 1942 » Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883)
• 1944 » Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1945 » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
• 1956 » Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and educator (b. 1867)
• 1959 » Eduard van Beinum, Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (b. 1901)

• 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.
• January 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
• March 20 » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• May 3 » London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
• 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.
• October 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

The temperature on April 13, 1951 was between 3.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.