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• Levensloos Ools, Alken, België († 1951)
• Rebecca Matilde Lopez, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1951)
• Barbara Maria Ludovica van Haaster, Zandvoort († 2004)
• 'n Levenloos geboren kindje van van der Hoorn, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1951)
• Niesje Wuite († 2024)
• Alberta Cornelia Dam, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Andre Michel VANTHIENEN, Bekkevoort († 2008)
• Johnny Ray Collins
• Jozef Theofiel Jef Vandegaer, Tielt-Winge († 2008)
• Leo M.C. Killaars

• Adriaantje Faasse (81), St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arnold Niessen (78), Limbricht
• Benjamin Johannes Linschoten (86), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Platteel (55), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• 'n Levenloos geboren kindje van van der Hoorn (0), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Aart van Zandwijk (60), Culemborg {GE}
• Adriana van Schaaik (64), Utrecht
• Alphonsus Bernardus Laurijssen (15), Baarle-Nassau
• Antonio de Godoy (4), Rio Bom, Paraná, Brasil
• Adriana Bannaars, Roosendaal (Roosendaal en Nispen) (Noord-Brabant)

• 1949 » Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener and author
• 1950 » Duncan Gay, Australian businessman and politician
• 1950 » Fausto Silva, Brazilian television presenter
• 1950 » Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Richard Ground, English lawyer and judge († 2014)
• 1950 » Simon Gaskell, English chemist and academic
• 1951 » John Glascock, English singer and bass player († 1979)
• 1952 » Chris Anderson, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1952 » Christine Baranski, American actress and singer
• 1952 » Isla St Clair, Scottish singer and actress

• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)

• 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 Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
• April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
• 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.
• October 16 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

The temperature on May 2, 1951 was between 7.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.