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 – 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

* 1951 – Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1951 – Steve Harley, British musician ( Cockney Rebel )

* 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner ( d. 1975 )

* 1951 – Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer ( d. 2007 )

* 15 Steve Van Buren, RB-S, 1944 – 1951

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

* Steve Fairnie ( 1951 – 1993 ): Fraserburgh born musician, painter, sculptor, actor, board game designer, chicken hypnotist, frontman of the post-punk band Writz and half of the Techno Twins.

* Steve Jones ( American football ) ( born 1951 ), American football player

* Steve Jones ( rugby player born 1951 ) ( 1951 – 2007 ), Wales international rugby union player of the 1980s

This spawned the 1959 Steve Reeves sequel Hercules Unchained, the 1959 re-release of Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah ( 1951 ), and literally dozens of imitations that followed in their wake.

** Steve Mills ( rugby union ), ( born 1951 ), English international rugby union player

* Steve Austin ( athlete ) ( born 1951 ), Australian long distance runner

* Steve Christian ( b. 1951 )

* The Adventures of Sam Spade ( 1950 – 1951, NBC ) — 24 30-minute episodes, starring Steve Dunne

* Steve Regal ( born 1951 ), retired American professional wrestler.

* Steve Keirn ( born 1951 ), a retired professional wrestler best known as " Skinner "

He has also appeared in several movies, including The Man from Planet X ( 1951 ) with Robert Clarke, The Tarnished Angels ( 1958 ) with Robert Stack, Blue Denim ( 1959 ) with Brandon deWilde, In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 ) with Rod Steiger, Speedway ( 1968 ) with Elvis Presley, The Jerk ( 1979 ) with Steve Martin, Teachers ( 1984 ) with Nick Nolte, and Innerspace ( 1987 ), in which he played Martin Short's doctor.

* Steve Fenwick ( born 1951 ), former Wales international rugby union and league player

* Steve Smith ( clown ) ( born 1951 ), American clown

* Steve Smith ( pole vaulter ) ( born 1951 ), US pole vaulter

* Steve Smith ( English rugby union ) ( born 1951 ), English rugby union player and British Lion

Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine ( January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975 ) was an American middle and long-distance runner.