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 – 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

He returned to the majors in 1949 as a coach with the Athletics ; one year later, Mack retired after 50 years managing his team, naming Dykes as his successor for the 1951 season.

Ronald ' Mack ' Hellings ( September 14, 1915-November 11, 1951 ) was an American racecar driver from Fort Dodge, Iowa.

William Mack Brown ( born August 27, 1951 ) is an American college football coach.

Jim McIngvale ( also known as Mattress Mack ) ( born February 11, 1951 ,) is a businessman from Houston, the founder of the Houston furniture store Gallery Furniture.

* 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer ( d. 1978 )

All-women a cappella groups followed shortly, frequently as a parody of the men's groups: the Smiffenpoofs of Smith College ( 1936 ), The Shwiffs of Connecticut College ( The She-Whiffenpoofs, 1944 ), and The Chattertocks of Brown University ( 1951 ).

* 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.

* John T. Brown ( 1876 – 1951 ), American politician ; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1929 – 1931

* John Brown ( basketball ) ( born 1951 ), NBA player

File: GordonBrown1234 cropped. jpg | Gordon Brown MPserved 2007 – 2010, born 1951

In 1951, Little Richard Penniman began recording for RCA Records in the jump blues style of late 1940s stars Roy Brown and Billy Wright.

Ruth Brown on the Atlantic label, placed hits in the top 5 every year from 1951 through 1954: " Teardrops from My Eyes ", " Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours ", "( Mama ) He Treats Your Daughter Mean " and " What a Dream ".

Ross was succeeded as editor by William Shawn ( 1951 – 1987 ), followed by Robert Gottlieb ( 1987 – 1992 ) and Tina Brown ( 1992 – 1998 ).

* June 25 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer ( b. 1951 )

In 1951, Ellington suffered a major loss of personnel, with Sonny Greer, Lawrence Brown, and most significantly Johnny Hodges, leaving to pursue other ventures.

In 1951 Blue Note issued their first vinyl 10 " releases, and the label was soon recording new talent such as Horace Silver ( who would stay with Blue Note for a quarter of a century ), the Jazz Messengers ( originally a collaboration, but soon to become Art Blakey's group ), Milt Jackson ( as the leader of what became the Modern Jazz Quartet ) and Clifford Brown.

Prince Edward County is the source of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, a case incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education which ultimately resulted in the desegregation of public schools in the U. S. Among the fives cases decided under Brown, it was the only one initiated by students themselves, after they walked out in 1951 to protest overcrowding and poor conditions at their school under Jim Crow laws.

In 1951, John Brown sold his Sulphur Springs properties to Wycliffe Bible Translators, which used the properties for conferences and the like.

* Charles Peter “ Chuck ” Brown ( April 3, 1951 – August 14, 2003 )-A Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

* Davey Brown ( 1898 – 1970 ), professional soccer player inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1951.

She followed up this hit with " I'll Wait for You " ( 1951 ), " I Know " ( 1951 ), " 5-10-15 Hours " ( 1953 ), "( Mama ) He Treats Your Daughter Mean " ( 1953 ), " Oh What a Dream " ( 1954 ), " Mambo Baby " ( 1954 ), and " Don't Deceive Me " ( 1960 ), some of which were credited to Ruth Brown and the Rhythm Makers.

In 1951, during the height of the Korean War, Brown denied Koreans entry into the Boston Marathon.

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 ).

That success led him to accept the Ohio State head coaching position on February 18, 1951, in a controversial decision after the university rejected the applications of other more well-known coaches, including former Buckeyes ' head coach Paul Brown, incumbent Buckeye assistant Harry Strobel and Missouri head coach Don Faurot.

At age sixty-eight, he was elected governor of South Carolina, serving from 1951 to 1955, in which capacity he vigorously criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

After the incumbent Speaker, Douglas Clifton Brown, retired at the 1951 general election, there was a great demand from the Labour Party for Major James Milner to become the first Labour Speaker after he had served as Deputy Speaker for eight years.