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

His first marriage to Betty Ebeling began in February 1951 and ended in divorce on January 5, 1967 ; during this time his hobbies included sport fishing off the Baja California coast and duck hunting along the Mexican border near Mexicali.

* 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican / British cosmologist

Carlos Zárate Serna ( born May 23, 1951 in Tepito, Distrito Federal, Mexico ) is a former Mexican boxer, who was better known in the world of boxing as Carlos Zarate.

After being one of the first to finish the Appalachian trail in 1951, Papendick hiked between July 4 and December 1, 1952, from British Columbia to the Mexican border over the crests of the mountains along the Pacific Coast, a feat he reported in a periodical under the title " Pacific Crest Trails ".

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León ( born December 27, 1951 ) is a Mexican economist and politician.

**** Mexican plateau mud turtle-Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi ( Glass and Hartweg, 1951 )

* 1951: Southern Pacific subsidiary Southern Pacific of Mexico is sold to the Mexican government.

Unlike most Mexican cities, it does not have old buildings because it is a new city founded officially on November 20, 1951.

* Joan Sebastian ( born 1951 ), Mexican singer-songwriter

Other relevant films during these years include Espaldas mojadas ( Wetbacks ) by Alejandro Galindo, Aventurera a melodrama starred by Ninón Sevilla, Dos tipos de cuidado ( 1951 ), El Rebozo de Soledad ( 1952 ) and Los olvidados ( The Young and the Damned ) ( 1950 ), a story about impoverished children in Mexico City directed by the Mexican of Spanish ascendent director Luis Buñuel, a very important figure in the course of the Mexican Cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.

González was a consistent hitter who spent most of his career in Mexican baseball ( 1947 – 1949, 1951 – 1956 ), where he won three consecutive batting titles ( 1952 – 54 ) including the Triple Crown in 1952.

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 ).

He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone — which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone.

* Lucía Méndez ( born 1951 ), Mexican actress and singer

Amalia Dolores García Medina ( born October 6, 1951 ) is a Mexican politician and a former governor of Zacatecas.

* Carlos Panini ( died 1951 ), wealthy Mexican businessman of Italian origin

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez ( born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo ( 1994 – 1999 ) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) from 1999 to 2007.

The next day claimed Carlos Panini, Italian in origin, and a pioneer of Mexican aviation-in 1927 he had established Mexico's first scheduled airline, which he sold in 1951 with plans for his retirement.

The only information about him from later years was that he received Mexican citizenship on 3 September 1951.

Dulce María Sauri Riancho ( b. 1951 in Mérida, Yucatán ) is a Mexican politician who was the first woman to serve as governor of Yucatán, from 1991 through 1994.

* Pedro Flores ( boxer ) ( born 1951 ), Mexican world boxing champion

Between 1948 and 1951, the importation of Mexican agricultural laborers continued under negotiated administrative agreements between growers and the Mexican Government.