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• Jo Pirard, Sint-Truiden, België († 2013)
• Johannes Petrus Maria (Hans) Stoop († 2008)
• Jan ter Heide, Duivendrecht, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Cornelius Anthonius van de Klundert, Oud Vossemeer († 2001)
• Jerry L. Lingenfelter, Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 2007)
• Ronald Victor Ferdinandus († 2007)
• Neila Valente Costa, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 2014)
• Margriet Schonewille, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 2017)
• Freddy CASTELEYN, Torhout († 2017)
• Susanna van Egmond│dsluis, Wassenaar († 1971)

• Andries van de Kolk (75), Uddel
• Charles Mose Beall (75)
• Anna Hoogerbrugge (77), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Agnes van Gelderen (17), Bilthoven
• Bertus Jannes Sikkema (66), Weidum
• Bertus Sikkema (66), Weidum
• Anne (Ann) Kittrell <KB ||| FgcPlnkChMNCBu>4 (0), Vance County, North Carolina
• Benjamin (Beny) Edelman (76), New York,New York, Verenigde Staten
• Christiaan Antonius Keuben (50), Doetinchem
• Daniël Bremmer (79), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1950 » Andy Cunningham, English actor († 2011)
• 1950 » Danny Kirwan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2018)
• 1950 » Joe Johnston, American film director and effects artist
• 1950 » Manning Marable, American author and academic († 2011)
• 1951 » Anand Modak, Indian composer and director († 2014)
• 1951 » Herman Philipse, Dutch philosopher and academic
• 1951 » Paul Thompson, English drummer
• 1951 » Rosie Boycott, English journalist and author
• 1951 » Selina Scott, English journalist, producer, and author
• 1951 » Sharon Sayles Belton, American politician, 45th Mayor of Minneapolis

• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 » Franz Kline, American painter and academic (b. 1910)
• 1962 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893)

• 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 27 » Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
• January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
• May 21 » The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
• September 1 » The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

The temperature on May 13, 1951 was between 2.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.