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 – 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

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

* 1951 – Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player

IKEA publishes an annual catalogue, first published in Swedish in 1951.

* 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

* 1951 – Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney

* Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin ( born 1951 ), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party

During his time at Dramaten, he made his screen debut in Alf Sjöberg's films Only a Mother ( Bara en mor, 1949 ), and Miss Julie ( Fröken Julie, 1951 ), a screen version of Swedish playwright August Strindberg's well known play.

In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

It had then been the closest ally of the Social Democrats for 25 years, and coalition partners 1936 – 1945 as well as 1951 – 1957, but has since revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right ( Swedish borgerlig, lit.

In 1951, Hammarskjöld became Vice Chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris.

* Anders Hedberg ( born 1951 ), Swedish pioneering ice hockey player

* 1951 is acquired by the Swedish forest company, Iggesunds Bruk AB.

Ulf Andersson ( born 27 June 1951 in Västerås, Sweden ) is a leading Swedish chess player.

Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, Ericson was the principal conductor of the Orphei Drängar choir at Uppsala University from 1951 until 1991, and choirmaster until 1982 of the Swedish Radio Choir which was established on his initiative in 1951.

* The Swedish Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 1932 to 1976 except only for some months in 1936 ( 1936 – 1939 and 1951 – 1957 in coalition with the Farmers ' League, 1939 – 1945 at the head of a government of national unity ) It has also held the power the vast majority of elections even after 1976, and is still the largest party in Sweden.

Sundback was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1951.

* Harald Sandberg ( born 1951 ), Swedish diplomat

:: Translated into Swedish ( 1951 ), German ( 1951 ), Italian ( 1951 ), French ( 1953 ), Hebrew ( 1954 ), Spanish ( 1955 ), Serbo-Croat ( 1957 ).

Leksand has played 53 seasons in the top Swedish league ( since 1975 called Elitserien ) – between 1951 to 2001, 2002 to 2004, and 2005 – 06.

In 1951, Merill did a series of duet recordings together with the Swedish tenor Jussi Björling, including the world-renowned recording of " Au fond du temple saint " from the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet.

Leif Johansson, born in 1951, is a Swedish businessman.