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• John Trenton Wallis, Tarrant, Texas, United States († 2013)
• Franciscus Jan Herman Hardeman, Amersfoort († 1991)
• Dirk Visser († 2016)
• Catharina Reus, Grootebroek († 1951)
• Lucas Bartholomeus van Mierlo, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1985)
• N.N. ten Brink, Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1951)
• Hermanus Alves, Vollenhove, ov.nld († 1983)
• Agatha Kamper, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland († 2015)
• Todd Latimer Osborn, Rochester, Monroe, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1969)
• Samuel Herbert "Sam" Sutherland, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 2009)

• Johannes Thiele (71), Utrecht
• Bernardus Johannes Westenburger (73), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Mendera (75), Amsterdam
• Anne Oosterhuis (75), Groningen
• Antonius Laurentius van der Hoorn (62), Gouda, Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Debets (25), Vaals
• "Natalie" Leontine Maria Andrássy (87), Budapest
• Adriana Elisabeth Maria Lingerak (67), Voorschoten
• Anne Oosterhuis (75), Den Horn
• Catharina Klimp (86), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1949 » Alyson Bailes, English academic and diplomat († 2016)
• 1950 » Claire Morissette, Canadian cycling activist († 2007)
• 1950 » Cleo Odzer, American anthropologist and author († 2001)
• 1951 » Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1951 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot († 1990)
• 1951 » Pascal Rogé, French pianist
• 1951 » Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian
• 1952 » Marilu Henner, Greek-Polish American actress and author
• 1952 » Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager († 1992)
• 1952 » Udo Dirkschneider, German singer-songwriter

• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (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.
• April 11 » Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in 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.
• May 13 » The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
• May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• October 15 » Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

The temperature on April 6, 1951 was between 2.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.