The first substantial amounts of metallic americium weighing 40 – 200 micrograms were not prepared until 1951 by reduction of americium ( III ) fluoride with barium metal in high vacuum at 1100 ° C.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch baseball player

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Tom Noonan, American actor

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager

* 1951 – Mack Brown, American football coach

* 1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress

* 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television host

* 1951 – Steve Swisher, American baseball player

* 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fandango, Brazen Abbot, and Hughes Turner Project )

* 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Leather Nun and Blue for Two )

* 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician

* 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player

* 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1951 – Jay North, American actor

* 1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer

* 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

In 1951, MGM released the musical An American in Paris, featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

* 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer

* 1951 – Peter Blegvad, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and illustrator ( Slapp Happy and The Lodge )

* 1951 – Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Replacements )

* 1951 – Carl Lumbly, American actor

* 1951 – Ann Biderman, American scriptwriter and producer

* 1951 – Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter

* 1951 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer ( d. 1992 )

* 1951 – Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist

* 1951 – Harry Smith, American journalist

* 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician

* 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.

* 1951 – Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist

* 1951 – Jayson Stark, American journalist

* 1861 – Dorothy Dix, American journalist ( d. 1951 )

Morath was briefly married to the British journalist Lionel Birch and relocated to London in 1951.

* Louis Adamic, 1899 – 1951 Slovenian-American novelist and journalist who wrote about American minorities and immigrants.

In July 1951, he and British journalist Alan Winnington made their way to North Korea to cover the Panmunjon Peace Talks.

María Isabel Preysler Arrastía, better known as Isabel Preysler, ( born February 18, 1951 ) is a Filipino-Spanish journalist, socialite, and television host.

He then moved on to teaching for nine years at Drummond's high school from 1951 to 1953 and the New Brunswick Teachers ' College in Fredericton from 1955 to 1959 after which he obtained work between 1960 and 1967 as a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French language broadcaster, Radio-Canada, serving in the bureaus in Ottawa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Esther Dyson ( born 14 July 1951 ) is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space.

Monthly Review Press, an allied endeavor, was launched in 1951 in response to the inability of the maverick left wing journalist I. F.

Before devoting himself entirely to writing in 1951, Lee worked as a journalist and as a scriptwriter.

Johann " Hans " Joseph Kmoch ( July 25, 1894, Vienna – February 13, 1973, New York City ) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master ( 1950 ), International Arbiter ( 1951 ), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known.

* Melanie Phillips ( born 1951 ), British journalist

* Jared Taylor ( born 1951 ), American journalist

* Gene Weingarten ( born 1951 ), a humor writer and journalist

Gavin Hewitt ( born January 1951, Penge, London ) is a British journalist and presenter, currently BBC News's Europe Editor, a post he has held since September 2009.

* Rosie Boycott ( born 1951 ), British journalist

* William H. Graham ( journalist ) ( died 1951 ), American war correspondent

Michael Kinsley ( born March 9, 1951 ) is an American political journalist, commentator, television host, and pundit.

Steven Levy ( born 1951 ) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.