* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

* 1851 – Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and social reformer ( d. 1933 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

* 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph ( b. 1851 )

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1851 – Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor ( d. 1938 )

* 1851 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist ( d. 1887 )

* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

* 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )

* John Cramp, 1851 – 1853 ( and 1856 – 1869 )

* 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist ( d. 1851 )

* 1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist ( d. 1939 )

* 1851 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist ( d. 1901 )

* Platine War ( 1851 – 1852 ): The Brazilian Empire and its allies went to war against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas of the Argentine Confederation.

* Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare ( 1851 – 1914 )

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

* Reuben Cone ( 1788 – 1851 ), an important pioneer and landowner in Atlanta, Georgia

Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Peder Severin Krøyer ( 23 July 1851 – 21 November 1909 ), known as P. S.

His first marriage ( 1912 – 1936 ) was to the Danish painter Marie Triepcke ( 1867 – 1940 ), who had previously been married to the painter Peder Severin Krøyer ( 1851 – 1909 ).

After tireless efforts by the poet Henrik Wergeland, politician Peder Jensen Fauchald, school principal Hans Holmboe and others, the Norwegian parliament lifted the ban against Jews in 1851 and they were awarded religious rights on par with Christian " dissenters.

Krøyer ( 1851 – 1909 ) and Michael ( 1849 – 1927 ) and Anna Ancher ( 1859 – 1935 ) moved to Skagen in the far north of Jutland to paint the natural surroundings and local people.

Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway on 23 July 1851 to Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal.

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

* John White Abbott ( 1763 – 1851 ), English painter and surgeon

Badajoz is the birthplace of the statesman Manuel de Godoy, the Duke of Alcudia ( 1767 – 1851 ), and of the painter Luis de Morales.

* Václav Brožík ( 1851 – 1901 ), Czech painter

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA ( 23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851 ) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist, and printmaker.

* John James Audubon-( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter.

File: JJAudubon. JPG | John James Audubon ( 1785 – 1851 ) French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter

* J. M. W. Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ), English painter

In 1803 John James Audubon ( 1785 – 1851 ) immigrated from Haiti and established a reputation as a leading explorer, woodsman, painter, and naturalist.

The English landscape painter J. M. W. Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ) painted the burning of the Palace of Westminster from memory, having witnessed it at first hand.

* John James Audubon ( 1785 – 1851 ), French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter

Stanisław Witkiewicz ( 8 May 1851 in Pašiaušė – 5 September 1915 in Lovran ) was a Polish painter, architect, writer and art theoretician.

Václav Brožík ( 5 March 1851 – 15 April 1901 ) was a Czech academic painter.

The inventor and proprietor of the Diorama was Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( 1787 – 1851 ), formerly a decorator, manufacturer of mirrors, painter of Panoramas, and masterly designer and painter of theatrical stage illusions.

* J. M. W. Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ), British landscape painter

Boddington was born Henry John Williams in St Marylebone, London, the second son of painter Edward Williams ( 1782 – 1855 ) and his wife Anne ( née Hildebrand, 1780 – 1851 ).

* Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel ( 1851 – 1913 ), French painter and illustrator

A skirmish near Fougères was the subject of the French painter Julien Le Blant's ( 1851 – 1933 ) most famous work " Le Bataillon Carré, Affaire de Fougères 1793 " which won a Gold Medal in the Exposition Universelle in 1889.

William Robert Symonds ( 1851 – November 7, 1934 ) was an English painter.

* Levi Wells Prentice ( 1851 – 1935 ), American still life and landscape painter