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

José Froilán González gave the team its first F1 victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

In 1945, the civilian president, Juan José Arévalo, was elected, and served until 1951.

* In the 1951 novel The Hive by Camilo José Cela, the character Ventura asks to borrow the Ludo from Doña Celia, the proprietress of a house of assignations.

It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny.

The Alfa Romeo team dominated the 1950 Formula One season, winning all eleven events it entered ( six World Championship events and five non-Championship races ), but Ferrari broke their streak in 1951 when rotund driver José Froilán González took first place at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

* José " Pepino " Borello ( 1951 – 58 )

* ( 1946 – 1951 ): José González Beytia

In 1951 a 10-inch mono LP was issued ( Decca Gold Label DL 7512, reissued 1978 by Varèse Sarabande on side 2 of 12-inch LP ), containing his Suite from La hija de Cólquide ( originally recorded in 1947 for the Mexican label Anfión and issued as a 3-disc 78 rpm set Anfión AM 4 ), and in 1956 they released an anthology, Music of Mexico, on which he conducted three of his own works, plus José Pablo Moncayo's Huapango ( Decca Gold Label LP, DL9527 ).

* Francisco José de Oliveira Vianna ( 1883 – 1951 )-jurist, sociologist, professor at the Law School, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

The free election that followed installed a philosophically conservative university professor, Juan José Arévalo Bermejo, as the President of Guatemala ( 1945 – 1951 ); and established a new political constitution that allowed the legal possibility of expropriating unused farmland for the benefit of the Guatemalan peasant majority.

José Froilán González ( born October 5, 1922 in Arrecifes ) is an Argentine former racing driver, particularly notable for scoring Ferrari's first win in a Formula One World Championship race at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

The PLN was founded by José Figueres in 1951, following the end of the Costa Rican Civil War.

Carlos José Bustamante ( born 1951 in Lima, Peru ) is an American scientist.

* José Fernando Castro Caycedo ( 1951 – 2008 ) Politician and lawyer.

* " Ritmo, tambó y flores " ( José Vargas ), guaracha, 1951

* 1951 Tomás Salvador for Historias de Valcanillo, José María Jové for Mientras llueve en la tierra and José Antonio Giménez Arnau for De pantalón largo

SBPC's first flagship publication was " Ciência e Cultura " ( Science and Culture ), started in 1951 under the editorship of Dr. José Reis, a respected biomedical scientist and the dean of popularization of science in Brazil ( there is a National Award conceded by the National Council for Research and Technological Development to the best science writers and projects on public understanding of science named after him ).

Born in Guatemala City, he played important roles in the governments of both Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz, including periods as Ambassador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947, as a deputy in the National Congress from 1947 to 1951, and being both leader of the Congress and Vice-President between 1948 and 1949 before retiring from politics in 1951.

* José Maria Cuenco † ( Auxiliary Bishop: 22 Nov 1941 ; Bishop: 24 Nov 1945 ; Archbishop: 29 Jun 1951 to 8 Oct 1972 )

Jaime Mayor Oreja, ( born 12 July 1951 in San Sebastián ) is a Spanish politician who served as Interior Minister in the People's Party government of José María Aznar before resigning in February 2001 to stand for Basque President on 13 May 2001, a post he failed to win.

José Horacio Gómez ( born December 26, 1951 ) is a Mexican-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, currently serving as the Archbishop of Los Angeles.