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• Madeleine Simone Vanstaen, Haarlem († 2018)
• Rinze Wilhelm Alfons Hengeveld, Onna († 2001)
• "Xavier" Benoît Antoinette Albert Joseph Ghislain Marie le Clément de Saint-Marcq, Bruxelles († 2019)
• Wilhelmina Agatha Katharina Waardenburg († 1951)
• Wilhelmina Agatha Katharina (Willemijntje) Waardenburg, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1951)
• Herman Hendrik Kosse, Coevorden († 1951)
• Egbert Julle Bloem, Zuidhorn, Nederland († 2003)
• Afra Veerman († 2001)
• Francine Siemiontkowski, GENK († 2014)
• Gerrit van Hal († 2016)

• Anna Maria van Aken (63), Weert, Limburg (NL.)
• Amanda Samantha Needham (96), Dexter, Calloway, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus VERDULT (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Alida-Hendrika Houkes (52), Den Haag
• Alphonsine Relindis Moors (35), Leuven (B)
• Alida-Hendrika Pieters Houkes (52), Den Haag
• Anna van den Barselaar (56), Den Haag
• Andrew Jackson Cromer (64), Los Angeles CA
• Antonius Dortmans (65), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Verdult (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1948 » Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 » Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
• 1950 » Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1950 » Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1950 » Paul Callery, Australian footballer
• 1950 » Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer († 1992)
• 1951 » Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 » Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
• 1953 » Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
• 1954 » Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer

• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)

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 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.
• March 3 » Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
• March 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• April 11 » Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
• 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.

The temperature on April 18, 1951 was between -1.9 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.