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

The first Pakistani census after the proclamation of independence was conducted in 1951.

* 1897 – Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist ( d. 1951 )

Alamgir Hashmi ( Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی ) ( also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi ) ( born November 15, 1951 ) is a major English poet of Pakistani origin in the latter half of the 20th century.

He was also the first Pakistani Prime Minister to visit China in 1956 and the delegation included Professor Ahmed Ali, Pakistan's First Envoy to China ( 1951 – 52 ) who had established the Pakistani embassy in Peking and formed Pak-China friendship and strengthened the official diplomatic friendship between Pakistan and China

* Mirror ( Pakistani magazine ), a popular Pakistani social magazine which ran from 1951 to 1972

Choudhry Rahmat Ali () ( November 16, 1895 – February 1951 ) was a Pakistani Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali ( 1874 – 1951 ) () was a Pakistani writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Ahmadiyya Movement.

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri () ( born February 19, 1951 ) is a Pakistani Sufi scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab.

* Javed Ahmad Ghamidi ( born 1951 ), Pakistani Muslim theologian, Quran scholar and exegete

" In this picture seated ( left to right ): Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid ( first Pakistani Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan ), Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan ( Liāqat Alī Khān ) ( Urdu: لیاقت علی خان ) listen ( help · info ) ( 2 October 1896 – 16 October 1951 ) the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan ( Nawab of Amb ) and Begum Ra ' ana Liaquat Ali Khan ( wife of Liaquat Ali Khan.

From 1948 until the early 1970s between 800, 000 to 1, 000, 000 Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews either fled from their homes or were expelled from Arab and Islamic countries ; 260, 000 reached Israel between 1948 – 1951, and 600, 000 by 1972.

There was severe disagreements on future path of Indonesian state, between nationalists who wanted a secular state ( led by Partai Nasional Indonesia first established by Sukarno ), the Islamists who wanted an Islamic state ( led by Masyumi Party ), and the communists who wanted a communist state ( led by PKI, only allowed to operate again in 1951 ).

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, MB BCh (, born June 19, 1951 ) is an Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and current leader of al-Qaeda.

General Jalal Zandi ( 1951 – 2001 ) was an ace fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, serving for the full duration of the Iran-Iraq War.

In 1951, roommates of Eliot House A-12 included Paul Matisse, grandson of French impressionist Henri Matisse, Stephen Joyce, grandson of novelist James Joyce, and Sadruddin Aga Khan, lineal descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Fathi Shaqaqi (), alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi ( 1951 – 26 October 1995 ), was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and was the initiator of suicide bombings.