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 )

* 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

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Chris Frantz, American musician and producer ( Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club )

* 1951 – Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach

Tom Vandergriff served as mayor from 1951 to 1977 during this period of explosive development.

Montebello High School Class of 1951, Tom Tellez Track at Carl Lewis International Complex

* Tom Fleming ( born 1951 ), long distance runner and two-time winner of the New York City Marathon.

* Tom Wopat ( born 1951 ), actor who played Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard.

* Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 )

Appearing on TV from its earliest days, he was one of the cadets in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from 1951 to 1954, had regular roles in three series between 1973 and 1984 and did countless cartoon voices, including that of Piglet for Disney.

* Lee Tom Perry ( born 1951 ), American businessman and educator

After World War II, she appeared in Alexander Korda's An Ideal Husband ( 1947 ), from the Oscar Wilde play, but her remaining film appearances were in supporting roles, usually maternal, such as in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and as the secretive mother ( of James Mason's character ) in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

* Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 )

* Tom Hamilton ( musician ) ( born 1951 ), American bass guitarist best known for his work as a member of the rock band Aerosmith

Dr Tom Walsh started the festival in 1951, and it has since grown into the internationally recognised festival it is today.

* Tom Wolfe 1951 — writer ( creator of New Journalism ) and author of numerous books including The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities, with his most recent novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, chronicling college life.

* 1951 Big Brothers of the Year Program begins, Associate Justice Tom Clark of the U. S. Supreme Court and J. Edgar Hoover are named

* Tom Jackson ( American football ) ( born 1951 ), ESPN analyst and former American football player

Tom Brown's School Days was adapted for film in 1916 ( British ), 1940 ( U. S .), and 1951 ( British ).

In the 1951 version Robert Newton portrayed Thomas Arnold and John Howard Davies portrayed Tom Brown.

He also portrayed disciplinarians such as Inspector Javert in the 1952 Les Misérables, Dr. Arnold in the 1951 film version of Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Inspector Fix in his last film, Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

* Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 )

* Night Into Morning ( 1951 ) ... Tom Lawry

It was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 11 September 1951, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf creating the role of Anne Trulove, and Robert Rounseville that of Tom Rakewell.