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

A refined version was proposed by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in 1951.

* 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker ( d. 1951 )

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

* Dructor, Robert M. Guide to the Microfilmed Harmony Society Records, 1786 – 1951 in the Pennsylvania State Archives.

* 1951 – Robert R. McCammon, American author

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 – Robert Hegyes, American actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1918 – Robert Walker, American actor ( d. 1951 )

Robert Menzies, KC, MP ( 1937 – 1951 )

Robert Menzies, CH, KC, MP ( 1951 – 1952 )

Ross was succeeded as editor by William Shawn ( 1951 – 1987 ), followed by Robert Gottlieb ( 1987 – 1992 ) and Tina Brown ( 1992 – 1998 ).

* Robert F. Vasa ( born 1951 ), Bishop of Baker

* November 30 – Robert Broom, Scottish paleontologist ( d. 1951 )

* February 16 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker ( d. 1951 )

Professor Robert Broom FRS ( 30 November 1866, Paisley – 6 April 1951 ) was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist.

The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space.

Between Planets is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Blue Book magazine in 1951 as " Planets in Combat ".

He had small parts in various British films: Now Barabbas Was A Robber ; Waterfront ( 1950 ) with Robert Newton ; The Woman with No Name ( 1951 ); and a bigger part as a smuggler in Green Grow the Rushes, a B-movie.

He was capable and ambitious, and in 1951 Prime Minister Robert Menzies made him Minister for Air and Minister for the Navy.

Bob Black ( born Robert Charles Black, Jr. on January 4, 1951 ) is an American anarchist.

* Robert Walker ( actor ) ( 1918 – 1951 ), actor remembered for his role in Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), father of Robert Walker Jr