About the day » Tuesday August 14, 1951Calender converter

• Juliana-Cunegonda Holtman, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1999)
• Donna Groen, Chicago
• Agnes Maria Bouwmeester, Apeldoorn († 2003)
• Bernadette Margaretha Maria Holleboom, Wolvega († 1951)
• Maria De Cock, Liezele († 1974)
• Maximiliaan Evarist Marquerithe Raman, Wetteren-ten-Ede († 1970)
• Hendrikus (Hans) A.M. HOEVEN,VAN DER, 's-Gravenzande,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jakob Schoon († 1956)
• Simon Clive Gittins, SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Carlo SEGERS, Kasongo,,Maniema,CONGO († 2022)

• Arie Gerrit van Hattem (77), Heemstede, NH, Nederland
• Elizabeth Landman (89), Kerkwerve
• Adrianus de Leeuw (84)
• Ernestus Gregorius Jozef Brandts (74), Beek (Bergh)
• Francisca Veronica Rakers (77), Oldenzaal
• Andreas Hubertus Dumont (83), Bocholtz
• Arijaantje van der Hoeven (72), Brielle
• Elizabet Landman (89), Kerkwerve, Schouwen-Duiveland,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Spreeuwel (82), Oostelbeers
• * Christina Cornelia (Stien) den Adel (64), Delft

• 1948 » Bruce Thomas, English bass player and author
• 1948 » Terry Adams, American pianist and composer
• 1949 » Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1950 » Gary Larson, American cartoonist
• 1951 » Norbert Hofmann, German footballer and manager
• 1951 » Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
• 1952 » John McCutcheon, American folksinger
• 1953 » James Horner, American composer and conductor († 2015)
• 1954 » Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)

• 1941 » Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)

• 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.
• March 7 » Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran.
• April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• April 29 » Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• 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.
• December 22 » The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.

The temperature on August 14, 1951 was between 10.2 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.