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

Between 1946 and 1951, Mies van der Rohe designed and built the Farnsworth House, a weekend retreat outside Chicago for an independent professional woman, Dr. Edith Farnsworth.

Mies designed a series of four middle-income high-rise apartment buildings for developer Herb Greenwald: the 860 – 880 ( which was built between 1949 and 1951 ) and 900 – 910 Lake Shore Drive towers on Chicago's Lakefront.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

* 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist

In 1944, Hendrik van de Hulst predicted microwave radiation at a wavelength of 21 cm resulting from interstellar atomic hydrogen gas ; this radiation was observed in 1951.

* 1951 – Cees van der Knaap, Dutch politician

* 1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist

* Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, 1951 – 1956

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born 15 February 1951 in Hayes, Middlesex, England, the daughter of John Benjamin Frankenberg, an obstetrician, and Mieke van Trigt, a nurse.

And as acting Minister of Colonial Affairs from March 15, 1951 until March 31, 1951 and as acting Minister of Finance from July 1, 1952 until September 2, 1952, following the resignations of Johannes Henricus van Maarseveen and Piet Lieftinck respectively.

* van der Poel, J-The Jameson Raid, Oxford University Press, ( 1951 )

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.

nl: Verdrag van Parijs ( 1951 )

In 1951 Peter van de Kamp and his student, Sarah Lippincott, claimed the astrometric detection of a planetary system using photographic plates taken with the 24-in refractor telescope at Swarthmore College's Sproul Observatory.

was set at the South Pole and has been made into a film three times: by Howard Hawks in 1951 ( dialogue indicates the setting in this version is near the North Pole ), by John Carpenter in 1982, and by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. in 2011.

* De groei van ons wereldbeeld-een geschiedenis van de sterrekunde ( 1951 )

* Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 Choral ( 1951 ): Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler.

* T. van Aardenne-Ehrenfest and N. G. de Bruijn, Circuits and trees in oriented linear graphs, Simon Stevin, 28 ( 1951 ), 203-217.

His father Jacobus Heesters ( 1865 – 1946 ) was a salesman and his mother Geertruida Jacoba van den Heuvel ( 1866 – 1951 ), a homemaker.

The original title ranged from De Avonturen van Detectief Van Zwam in 1947 to De Avonturen van Nero en zijn Hoed in 1950, and finally De Avonturen van Nero & Co from 1951.

Reinier " René " Lambertus van de Kerkhof () ( born 16 September 1951 ) is a former Dutch football player, who played for FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven.

Wilhelmus " Willy " Antonius van de Kerkhof () ( born 16 September 1951 ) is a former Dutch footballer.