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 – Chris Cooper, American actor

* 1951 – Chris Frantz, American musician and producer ( Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club )

* 1951 – Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist ( Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey )

* Chris von Rohr ( born 1951 ), rock star

* Chris Jasper ( born 1951 ), an American musician and former member of the Isley Brothers

Chris Date attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School ( U. K .) from 1951 to 1958 and received his BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University ( U. K .) in 1962.

* Chris Turner ( footballer born 1951 ), former English football ( soccer ) manager and player

* Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury ( born 1951 ), former British Member of Parliament and government minister

* Chris Marlowe ( born 1951 ), American sportscaster

Christopher " Chris " Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury PC ( born 24 July 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, and a former Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Cabinet Minister.

The theory of the permanent arms economy was developed by T. N. Vance in a series published throughout 1951 in the ISL journal New International and was later refined by Cliff in the late 1950s and over the years by key International Socialist ( IS ) theoreticians such as Mike Kidron, Nigel Harris and Chris Harman in later years.

* Chris Bell ( musician ) ( 1951 – 1978 ), singer-songwriter and guitarist of the band Big Star

Christopher W. " Chris " Cooper ( born July 9, 1951 ) is an American film actor.

* Chris Cooper ( actor ) ( born 1951 ), American actor

* Chris Rea ( born 1951 ), English singer-songwriter

Chris Rea ( ; born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951 )

Program in Theatre at City University of New York — with whom he had his only child ( Jonathan Christopher " Chris " Roberts, b. October 1951 ).

Cosey Fanni Tutti ( born Christine Newby, 4 November 1951, Hull, England ) is best known as a performance artist and for her time in Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

Chris Jasper ( born Christopher H. Jasper, December 30, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio ) is a former member of both the Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley.

* Chris Mortensen ( born 1951 ), American journalist