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

Mamoru Oshii ( 押井 守 Oshii Mamoru ; born August 8, 1951 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer.

* 1951 – Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer

* 1951 – Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist

* 1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer

* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )

* 1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist ( d. 1951 )

The first Japanese film in color was Carmen Comes Home directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and released in 1951.

* 1951 – Keiko Fuji, Japanese singer

* 1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist ( b. 1890 )

* 1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler ( d. 2000 )

* 2005 – Takanori Arisawa, Japanese Composer ( b. 1951 )

* 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.

* Tamiki Hara ( 原 民喜, 1905 – 1951 ), a Japanese author and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima

Per the provisions in Article 2 of San Francisco Peace Treaty, the Japanese formally renounced the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan and Penghu islands, and the treaty was signed in 1951 and came into force in 1952.

In 1947, Deming was involved in early planning for the 1951 Japanese Census.

The NHK Symphony Orchestra, financially sponsored by NHK, was formerly ( until 1951 ) the Japanese Symphony Orchestra.

Methaqualone was first synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Hussain Zaheer, and was soon introduced to Japanese and European consumers as a safe barbiturate substitute.

As van Gulik thought the story would have more interest to Japanese and Chinese readers, he had it translated into Japanese by a friend ( finished in 1951 ), and it was sold in Japan under the title Meiro-no-satsujin.

* The Chinese Maze Murders ( written 1950, published in Japanese in 1951, published in English in 1956 )

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.

Shinto rites are performed at the shrine, which, according to Shinto belief, houses the kami, or spirits, of all Japanese, former colonial subjects ( Korean and Taiwanese ) and civilians who died in service of the emperor while participating ( forced or willing ) in the nation's conflicts prior to 1951.

The Economic and Scientific Section ( ESS ) group was also tasked with improving Japanese management skills and Edgar McVoy was instrumental in bringing Lowell Mellen to Japan to properly install the Training Within Industry ( TWI ) programs in 1951.

Tsunoda ( 1951: 5 ) notes " Pimiko is from an archaic Japanese title, himeko, meaning ' princess '," that is, hime with the female name suffix-ko ( 子 " child ", viz.