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

* 1951 – Tony Danza, American actor

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

* 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter ( David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band )

* 1951 – Tony Scott, American baseball player

Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics ' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ).

Tony Shryane MBE was the programme's producer from 1 January 1951 to 19 January 1979.

In 1951, Rains won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Darkness at Noon.

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Play

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play – Eli Wallach

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Maureen Stapleton

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design – Boris Aronson

In 1952, he won Broadway's 1951 Special Tony Award for Don Juan in Hell.

* Tony Black ( born 1951 ), record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

* Tony Black ( born 1951 ), a record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

He undertook a number of roles on television in 1951 and met Tony Hancock who, along with Le Mesurier's wife, Hattie Jacques, starred in Educating Archie.

1951 was also the year that Tony Hancock joined Le Mesurier's wife, Hattie Jacques in the series Educating Archie ; Le Mesurier and Hancock became friends and would often go for drinking sessions around Soho and ending up in jazz clubs.

*** Tony K. Burris ( 8 and 9 October 1951 )

Several other roles followed: Francis Goes to the Races ( 1951, co-starring Donald O ' Connor ); Son of Ali Baba ( 1952, co-starring Tony Curtis ); and Ain't Misbehavin ' ( 1955, co-starring Rory Calhoun ).

In 1951, she married actor Tony Curtis, her third husband, with whom she co-starred in five films, including Houdini ( 1953 ), The Black Shield of Falworth ( 1954 ), The Vikings and The Perfect Furlough ( 1958 ).

Leigh married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951.

The musical ran for 1, 200 performances, winning five 1951 Tony Awards, including the award for Best Musical.

* 1951 Top Banana – Tony Award ( winner )

Tony Danza ( born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza ; April 21, 1951 ) is a U. S. actor known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss ?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards.

Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen won her first Tony Award in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets ' The Country Girl.