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• Marcel Van Bogaert, Temse († 2001)
• Cornelis Heijden, 's-Gravendeel, Nederland († 1953)
• Arie Steenis († 2015)
• William Allen WIERSEMA († 2010)
• Gijsberta Teunie de Jong, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Gijsbertha Teunie de Jong, Katwijk († 2012)
• Richard Shoff († 1983)
• Maria Couprie, Amsterdam († 1961)
• Doodgeboren kind van de Donk, Geldrop († 1951)
• Sonja Volger, Koog aan de Zaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• Agnetha Everdina van Hirton (44), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth+ Paas+ (62), Heerlerbaan, LI, Netherlands
• Antje Adriana Noordam (70), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Paas (62), Heerlen
• Anna Elisabeth Paas (62), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Bertus Vollendam (70), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Van Der HEIJDEN (81), Leidschendam
• Boele Boeles Migchels (76), Stadskanaal
• Antje Anjes Helmus (89), Niezijl
• Albert Swart (52), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands

• 1947 » Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1948 » Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
• 1948 » Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
• 1949 » Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
• 1949 » Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1950 » Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
• 1953 » Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1954 » Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 » Robert Beaser, American composer and educator

• 1939 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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. John
15. Jacob
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.
• January 27 » Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
• March 15 » Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
• September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
• November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• November 15 » Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
• December 25 » A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.

The temperature on May 29, 1951 was between 6.8 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.