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

The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951.

* 1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor

* 1951 – Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer

Kicker Mark Moseley led the NFL in scoring with 161 points, while Riggins ranked second with 144, making them the first teammates to finish a season as the NFL's top two scorers since 1951.

* August 16 – Mark Heard, American singer ( b. 1951 )

* Mark Stock ( b. 1951 ), American painter

* East German mark ( 1951 – 1990 ), initially Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of East Germany

David Mark Winfield ( born October 3, 1951 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

* Mark Douglas-Home ( 1951 –), Scottish editor-in-chief of The Herald in Glasgow, Scotland

* 1948 – 1951 Mark V

* 1951 – 1957 Mark VII (& VIIM )

Her middle child, Mark Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951 and became a judge.

* Lotus Mark III ( 1951 ): 750 cc formula car

In 1951 a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester played " In the Mood ", one of the first songs to be played by a computer, and the oldest known recording of digitally generated music.

Then in 1951, he triumphed again at Moscow, URS-ch19, with 12 / 17 (+ 9 = 6 − 2 ), against a super-class field which included Efim Geller, Petrosian, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Yuri Averbakh, David Bronstein, Mark Taimanov, Lev Aronin, Salo Flohr, Igor Bondarevsky, and Alexander Kotov.

His radio successes provided opportunity for him to appear as himself on television, in shows like the 1951 Mark Goodson and William Todman game show It's News to Me, hosted by John Charles Daly.

This may have been the reference in the legal opinion of United States v. Leviton, 193 F. 2d 848 ( 2nd Circuit, 1951 ), makes reference in its opinion, " As I have elsewhere observed, it is like the Mark Twain story of the little boy who was told to stand in a corner and not to think of a white elephant.

Ferranti Mark 1, c. 1951

At least seven of the Mark 1 * machines were delivered between 1951 and 1957, one of them to Shell labs in Amsterdam.

In November 1951, Dr. Dietrich Prinz wrote one of the oldest computer games, a chess-playing program for the Manchester Ferranti Mark 1 computer.

* Mark N. Brown ( born 1951 ), NASA astronaut

Mark Neil Brown ( b. November 18, 1951 in Valparaiso, Indiana ) is an engineer, retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and former NASA astronaut.