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

* 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 – Dan Martin, American voice actor

Freberg began making satirical recordings for Capitol Records, beginning with the February 10, 1951, release of " John and Marsha " ( in both 45-rpm and 78-rpm formats ), a soap opera parody that consisted of the title characters ( both played by Freberg ) repeating each other's names, and " Ragtime Dan ".

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard ( born 19 April 1951 ) is the Finance Minister of the Faroe Islands.

* Dan Hornsby ( 1900 – 1951 ), American bluegrass musician

Dan Edward Garvey ( June 19, 1886 – February 5, 1974 ) was the eighth Governor of Arizona from 1948 to 1951.

He was crowned as the Sultan Dan Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam on 31 May 1951 in a glittering coronation ceremony.

Briggs was succeeded on the Sundays by Emanuel " Mac " Raboy, while the daily strip was revised in 1951 by Dan Barry.

* a 2007 production at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Woyzeck was re-worked by Director Dan Rigazzi to take place in 1951 and reflect themes of racial pressure in the army.

* Dan Hicks ( actor ) ( born 1951 ), American actor

He married another student attending La Sierra, Jean Venden, in June 1951, with whom he had four sons: Dan, David, Richard, and Donald.

In 1951, Dan DeCarlo took over the strip with Stan Lee scripting.

Although it had been a concern from the beginning to military intelligence that the sightings seemed concentrated near sensitive nuclear facilities such as Los Alamos and Kirtland AFB, researcher Dan Wilson discovered that later heavy concentrations of sightings might also be correlated with atomic tests that began in Nevada in January 1951.

Information Please was an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938 to April 22, 1951.

Rogers ' marriage to Dan Winkler in 1943 raised the complexity of her acting career and ultimately retired in 1951 in order remain with her family.

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