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 )

* 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

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.

Per Degaton is aware of the pre-Crisis timeline, as he told the JSAs of the present and of 1951 that he would retcon them out of existence the same way the Huntress of Earth-Two was.

A story explaining the retirement of the JSA members, including the Flash, explained that in 1951, the JSA was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for possible Communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities, which was later revealed to be partly caused by Per Degaton.

* 1950s: Arnold Olsen ( 1950 ), Erik Hansen ( 1951 ), Jørgen Johansen ( 1952 ), Martin Kristensen ( 1952 ), Per Jensen ( 1952 ), Vagn Birkeland ( 1954 ), Jens Torstensen ( 1956 ), Finn Alfred Hansen ( 1957 ), Jørn Sørensen ( 1958 ), Per Funch Jensen ( 1959 ), Arne Karlsen ( 1959 )

* 1951 – Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player

IKEA publishes an annual catalogue, first published in Swedish in 1951.

* 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

* 1951 – Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney

* Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin ( born 1951 ), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party

During his time at Dramaten, he made his screen debut in Alf Sjöberg's films Only a Mother ( Bara en mor, 1949 ), and Miss Julie ( Fröken Julie, 1951 ), a screen version of Swedish playwright August Strindberg's well known play.

In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

It had then been the closest ally of the Social Democrats for 25 years, and coalition partners 1936 – 1945 as well as 1951 – 1957, but has since revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right ( Swedish borgerlig, lit.

In 1951, Hammarskjöld became Vice Chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris.

* Anders Hedberg ( born 1951 ), Swedish pioneering ice hockey player

* 1951 is acquired by the Swedish forest company, Iggesunds Bruk AB.

Ulf Andersson ( born 27 June 1951 in Västerås, Sweden ) is a leading Swedish chess player.

Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, Ericson was the principal conductor of the Orphei Drängar choir at Uppsala University from 1951 until 1991, and choirmaster until 1982 of the Swedish Radio Choir which was established on his initiative in 1951.

* The Swedish Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 1932 to 1976 except only for some months in 1936 ( 1936 – 1939 and 1951 – 1957 in coalition with the Farmers ' League, 1939 – 1945 at the head of a government of national unity ) It has also held the power the vast majority of elections even after 1976, and is still the largest party in Sweden.

Sundback was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1951.

* Harald Sandberg ( born 1951 ), Swedish diplomat

:: Translated into Swedish ( 1951 ), German ( 1951 ), Italian ( 1951 ), French ( 1953 ), Hebrew ( 1954 ), Spanish ( 1955 ), Serbo-Croat ( 1957 ).

Leksand has played 53 seasons in the top Swedish league ( since 1975 called Elitserien ) – between 1951 to 2001, 2002 to 2004, and 2005 – 06.

In 1951, Merill did a series of duet recordings together with the Swedish tenor Jussi Björling, including the world-renowned recording of " Au fond du temple saint " from the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet.

Leif Johansson, born in 1951, is a Swedish businessman.