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

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ), Mr. Spencer, one of the teachers at ( fictitious ) Pencey Prep School, lives across the street from campus on Anthony Wayne Avenue.

Two other of the most notable books of the 1950s, Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ), have been the subject of much debate as to whether or not they make use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Holden Caulfield, the hero of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, was a literary embodiment of teenage angst and alienation further fueling adults ' perception of teenagers as rebels.

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.

J. D. Salinger produced the first shock to the tranquil suburban landscape with the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.

* J. D. Salinger: ( 1919 – 2010 ), an author best known for the controversial 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye

Some claimed that the first real young adult novel was The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger in 1951, and that it opened up a new eye to what types of texts adolescent readers read.

In the 1950s, shortly before the advent of modern publishing for the teen romance market, two novels drew the attention of adolescent readers: The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ); and Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ).

* 1951: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

* The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ).

Salinger's 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, which is one of the most notable coming-of-age novels about American males.

* J. D. Salinger-The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 )

* 1951-J. D. Salinger-The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 )

The man who frequently appears throughout the episode calling Peter ( and later Neil ) a phony is named Holden Caulfield in the credits, a reference to the character of the same name who is the protagonist of the 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, known to use the word " phony " many times throughout the book.

Salinger to name the protagonist of his novel The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ) " Holden Caulfield " after seeing a movie theater marquee with the film's stars: Caulfield and William Holden.