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• Michiel Dijkhuis, Bennekom, Utrecht, Nederland († 2011)
• Aleida Hendrika Voorthuijzen, Texel († 2000)
• Hermen Willemsen, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1951)
• Margareta "Greta" Pauwels, Bornem, België († 2019)
• Marie BRINCK († 1952)
• Marten Jacobus den Uijl, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 2016)
• Aart van de Brug, Ermelo, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 2022)
• Arthur Warren Phelps **, Riverside, California, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Rijk Wagenaar (Wagener), Heerde, Nederland († 2008)
• Astrid Viola Poots, Dordrecht († 2018)

• Bernardus van der Meer (86)
• Arien Koeman (43), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Janssen (73), Asten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Josephus Pijnenburg (76), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Ages van der Meer (86), Blauwhuis, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthony PAWLUK (1), Childrens Hospital, Nottingham
• Bastiaan Johannes Bossers (87)
• Andrew Kerr Marais (42), Cape Town Cape South Africa
• Charles Louis Naessens (59), Kortrijk
• Baafje STEENBERGEN (60), of Arnhem, Gelderland, NL

• 1949 » Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
• 1949 » Ted Ammon, American financier and banker († 2001)
• 1950 » Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
• 1951 » Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
• 1951 » Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1951 » Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1951 » Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer
• 1952 » Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
• 1952 » Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
• 1953 » Ron George, American businessman and politician

• 1941 » Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
• 1943 » Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
• 1945 » Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1946 » Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
• 1947 » Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
• 1949 » Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)

• 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 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
• January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
• January 27 » Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
• March 31 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• 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.
• July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.

The temperature on August 30, 1951 was between 13.9 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.