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

Enda Kenny ( born 24 April 1951 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been the Taoiseach since 2011.

Enda Kenny was born in the village of Islandeady near Castlebar, County Mayo in 1951, the third child of five.

* 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician

Dr. Kenny Davis Anthony ( born January 8, 1951 ) is a Saint Lucian politician who has been Prime Minister of Saint Lucia since 2011 ; previously he was Prime Minister from 1997 to 2006.

Kenny Ewell Marchant ( born February 23, 1951 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 2005.

In 1951, when he was sixteen, Hayes joined Kenny Baker's sextet, later playing for big-band leaders such as Ambrose, Terry Brown, Tito Burns, Roy Fox, Vic Lewis, and Jack Parnell.

In 1951 Kenny headed the Gallup Poll's most-admired women's list, the only woman in the first 10 years of the list to displace Eleanor Roosevelt for the # 1 spot.

The Prairie View A & M Football team won Black college national championship titles in 1953, 1954, 1958, 1963, and 1964 and Southwestern Athletic Conference Championships SWAC in 1933, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964. and recently in 2009. Notable football players that have achieved success in the National Football League ( NFL ) are National Football Hall of Fame Inductee Kenny Houston and Otis Taylor, who won a World Championship with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1969.

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Margo O ' Donnell, Irish singer

* 1951 – Brian Downey, Irish musician ( Thin Lizzy )

* 1951 – Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician

* 1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician

* July 8 – Joe McDonnell, Irish political prisoner ( b. 1951 )

* Marietta Farrell ( born 1951 ), Irish politician

John Aloysius Costello (; 20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976 ), a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 – 1932 and Taoiseach from 1948 – 1951 and 1954 – 1957.

* Irish Teddy Mann ( born 1951 ), Former Middleweight Boxing contender and author of Fighting For Redemption: The " Irish " Teddy Mann Story.

Some historians have questioned whether Lemass came to the premiership too late, arguing that had he replaced de Valera as Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach in 1951 he could have begun the process of reform of Irish society and the industrialisation of the Republic of Ireland a decade earlier than 1959, when he eventually achieved the top governmental job.

* Charles Billingsley ( cricketer ) ( 1910 – 1951 ), Irish cricketer

* Declan Bree ( born 1951 ), Irish politician

* The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1890-1910 ( 1951 )

By March 1951 O ' Broin would press for the inevitable establishment of an Irish television service in the state.

Dana Rosemary Scallon ( born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951 ), known in her singing career as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ).

Among her works were plays such as Cluichidhe na Gaedhilge ( 1935 ) and story collections such as The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories ( 1951 ), The Stolen Child and Other Stories ( 1961 ), The Four-leafed Shamrock ( 1964 ) and The Miser's Gold ( 1970 ).

In 1951 MacBride controversially ordered Noël Browne to resign as a minister over the Mother and Child Scheme after it was attacked by the Irish Catholic hierarchy and the Irish medical establishment.

**** 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, July 1951 – December 1951

Lady Goulding ( 12 September 1918 – 28 July 2003 ) was an Irish campaigner for disabled people and senator who set up the Central Remedial Clinic in 1951, now the largest organisation in Ireland looking after people with physical disabilities.

Paul Muldoon ( born 20 June 1951 near Portadown, Northern Ireland ) is an Irish poet.