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

Ivanoe Bonomi ( 18 October 1873 – 20 April 1951 ) was an Italian politician and statesman before and after World War II.

* Ivanoe Bonomi ( 1873 – 1951 ), Prime Minister of Italy

Born in Cassano d ' Adda, Italy, and initially nicknamed as Ciapin, Bonomi was the AC Milan captain in the 1950 / 1951 season, which ended with a Serie A triumph for the rossoneri led by the Gre-No-Li trio.

Bonomi played for the Italy national football team for just one match, in 1951, against Switzerland.

Founded by a merger arranged by the Fascist regime in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s ( 1951 – 52 ).

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

The Italian director-producer Mario Zampi also made a number of successful black comedies, including Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Naked Truth ( 1957 ) and Too Many Crooks ( 1958 ).

It has been calculated that the Italian economy experienced an average rate of growth of GDP of 5. 8 % per year between 1951 – 63, and 5. 0 % per year between 1964-73.

After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col Gangster ( Holiday with the Gangster, 1951 ) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy ( including Gli sbandati ), a major film role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo, 1963 ).

* Anna ( 1951 film ), Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada

The film appeared at the 1951 Venice Film Festival at the behest of an Italian language teacher, Giuliana Stramigioli, who had recommended it to Italian film promotion agency Unitalia Film seeking a Japanese film to screen at the festival.

*, a Gato class submarine in commission in the USN from 1943 to 1947, from 1951 to 1954, and from 1954 to 1955 ; leased and transferred to Italian Navy in 1955 and returned in 1972 for scrapping ( in 1975 )

* After the former Italian colony of Eritrea had been under victor Britain's administration since 5 May 1941, a specific United Nations administration, under Britain, was installed on 19 February 1951, under a UN High Commissioner, Edoardo Anze Matienzo ( Bolivian, b. 1902 ), whose office ceased on 15 September 1952 when it was Federated with Ethiopia under the sovereignty of the Ethiopian emperor.

Trionfo di Afrodite ( Italian, literally Triumph of Aphrodite ) is a cantata called " concerto scenico " ( scenic concert ) written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff.

Officially titled Festival della Canzone Italiana ( English: Italian song festival ), the first edition of the show was held at the Sanremo Casinò on 29, 30 and 31 January 1951.

Jubaland was subsequently ceded to Italy in 1925 as a reward for the Italians having joined the Allies in World War I, and had a brief existence as the Italian colony of Trans-Juba ( Oltre Giuba ) under governor ( 16 July 1924-31 December 1926 ) Corrado Zoli ( 1877 – 1951 ).

While he played only supporting roles in English-language cinema, Selwart starred in Italian and French films, notably in Lupo della Frontiere ( Wolf of the Frontier, 1951 ), during the 1950s ; he never appeared in a German film.

* John Spike ( born 1951 ), American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods

Elio Di Rupo (; born 18 July 1951 ) is a Belgian socialist politician of Italian heritage.

In 1951, MGM producer Sam Zimbalist cleverly used the lower production costs, use of frozen funds and the expertise of the Italian film industry to shoot the large scale epic Quo Vadis in Rome.

Four days after Eisenhower's arrival in Paris, on 5 January 1951, the Italian defence minister, Signor Pacciardi, announced that three Italian divisions were to be formed as Italy's ' initial contribution to the Atlantic army ,' and that these divisions would also come under Eisenhower's control.

Franco Corelli ( 8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003 ) was a famous Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.

Matters came to a head in 1951 when both were with an Italian company touring South America.

* Lorenzo Ferrero ( b. 1951 ), Italian composer

He was born to Italian immigrant parents ( the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced the same way ) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War.