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

* 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer

* 1951 – Ben Cohen, American businessman co-founder of Ben and Jerry's

* September 22 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1951 )

Joseph Benedict " Ben " Chifley (; 1885 – 1951 )

After Yarborough's death in 1951 ( and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode " The Big Sorrow "), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs ( December 27, 1951-April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor ), played by Barney Phillips ; Officer Bill Lockwood ( Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952-May 8, 1952 ), played by Martin Milner ( with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode " The Big Donation "); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis ( 1952 ), then Ben Alexander ( September 21, 1952-1959 ).

Bowers ( 1911 – 1913 ), Samuel Young Jameson ( 1913 – 1916 ), Charles Ernest Dicken ( 1916 – 1926 ), Arthur B. Hill ( 1926 – 1929 ), Charles D. Johnson ( 1929 – 1933 ), James R. Grant ( 1933 – 1949 ), Seaford Eubanks ( 1949 – 1951 ), Harold A. Haswell ( 1952 – 1953 ), Ralph Arloe Phelps Jr. ( 1953 – 1969 ), Daniel R. Grant ( 1970 – 1988 ), Ben M. Elrod ( 1988 – 1998 ), and Andrew Westmoreland ( 1998 – 2006 ).

Arrested in 1951 and sentenced to eight years imprisonment Ben Bella escaped from Blida prison, making his way to Tunisia and then Egypt.

To facilitate their construction, the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania expanded the powers of the Delaware River Joint Commission, which owned the Ben Franklin Bridge and the New Jersey portion of the Bridge Line, rechristening it as the Delaware River Port Authority in 1951.

* Follow the Sun ( 1951 ) as Ben Hogan

After 1948, a number of Israeli villages were founded on Yibna land: Kfar HaNagid and Beit Gamliel in 1949, Ben Zakai in 1950, Kfar Aviv ( originally: " Kfar HaYeor ") in 1951, Tzofiyya in 1955.

File: BenChifely lyinginstate 1951. jpg | The coffin of Ben Chifley, the 16th Prime Minister of Australia, lying in state inside King's Hall, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 1951.

* Ben Cohen ( businessman ) ( born 1951 ), American businessman, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's

* Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar, Best Motion Picture, Ben Maddow ; 1951.

* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Sam Jaffe ; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Harold Rosson ; Best Director, John Huston ; Best Writing, Screenplay, Ben Maddow and John Huston ; 1951.

* Golden Globes: Golden Globe, Best Cinematography-Black and White, Harold Rosson ; Best Motion Picture Director, John Huston ; Best Screenplay, John Huston and Ben Maddow ; 1951.

* Writers Guild of America: WGA Screen Award ; Best Written American Drama, Ben Maddow and John Huston ; The Robert Meltzer Award ( Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene ), Ben Maddow and John Huston ; 1951.

The Hotel Kurrajong, favoured by Ben Chifley and the location of his death in 1951, is also located in the suburb.