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 )

* 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

* Bert Blyleven, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, born in 1951

Bert Blyleven ( born Rik Aalbert Blijleven, April 6, 1951 in Zeist, Netherlands ) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from to, and was best known for his curveball.

The team's most capped player is Bert McNab of Petershill who won 12 caps between 1951 – 55.

While the NFL Championship was not named a Bowl initially, the league instituted the Pro Bowl as the name of its all-star game in 1951, and introduced the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl ( also known as the Playoff Bowl ) as a matchup of the two second-place teams in each division from 1960 to 1969.

* Bert Blyleven ( Aalbert ), b. 1951, former MLB pitcher

Egbert " Bert " Anson Van Alstyne-( b. March 6, 1878, Marengo, IL d. July 9, 1951, Chicago, IL.

* 1951 – Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower

* 1951 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster

* 1951 – Cees van der Knaap, Dutch politician

* 1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist ( d. 2004 )

After the Dutch constitution was revised in 1948, a new interim Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles was enacted in February 1951.

* 1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch football player

* 1951 – André Wetzel, Dutch footballer, manager and technical director

* 1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist

* 2004 – André Hazes, Dutch singer ( b. 1951 )

* 1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer

** Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor ( d. 1951 )

Leopold III ( born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel ( French ) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( Dutch ) or Leopold Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( German ); 3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

Jan Timman ( born 14 December 1951 ) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Apart from her four Olympic titles, she won five European titles and 58 Dutch championships, and set or tied 12 world records – the last, pentathlon, in 1951 aged 33.

* Corky de Graauw ( born 1951 ), Dutch ice hockey player

In 1951, Bussum hosted the first Dutch national TV broadcast and the national TV studios were located there until 1964.

In 1951 Alfred Colby Hockings and his wife — he was a well-known illustrator for Field and Stream magazine, originally from Wisconsin but most recently living in the artists ' community of Tryon, North Carolina —- built a home up the street from the Gasques and Sorrys and across from the Baarslags ; at almost the same time another Dutch family — Gerbrand and Nellie Poster, the son-in-law and daughter of the Baarslags, came down from New York City to visit her parents for Christmas, decided to stay, and built a home next door to her parents.

André Gerardus Hazes ( June 30, 1951 – September 23, 2004 ) was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied ( song about life ) which is a form of emotional folk music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language.

In 1951, the president and vice-president of the Dutch COC initiated an International Congress of European homophile groups, which resulted in the formation of the International Committee for Sexual Equality ( ICSE ).

* International Committee for Sexual Equality ( ICSE ) ( 1951 – 1963 ); Formed by the Dutch COC and functioned as an umbrella organization that united many of the above national organizations from Europe and the United States.

**** Dutch Battalion ( from early 1951 )

Hendrik " Henk " Bouman ( born 1951 ) is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.

Constructing Madurodam, Dutch newsreel from 1951