* 1951 – Ian McCartney, British politician

* Urban Blitz ( born 1951 ), British rock musician

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

By 1951 about 20 % of the British economy had been taken into public ownership.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

* 1951 – Richard Skinner, British radio presenter

* 1951 – Russell Grant, British astrologer

José Froilán González gave the team its first F1 victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

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

* 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, British writer and occultist ( d. 1951 )

This is especially pronounced due to its location far from any sizeable landmass-Fair Isle has the smallest overall temperature range ( least continental ) of any Weather Station in the British Isles-an absolute maximum of and an absolute minimum of since 1951.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

* 1951 – Helen Worth, British actress

In early May 1951, Burgess got three speeding tickets in a single day – then pleaded diplomatic immunity, causing an official complaint to be made to the British Ambassador.

* 1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.

* 1951 – Maizie Williams, British singer ( Boney M .)

* 1951 – Dougie Thomson, British bassist ( Supertramp and The Alan Bown Set )

* 1870 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician and former Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain

* 1979 – John Glascock, British bassist ( Jethro Tull ) ( b. 1951 )

* 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican / British cosmologist

* 1951 – Tiff Needell, British racing driver and television presenter

Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18 and from 1951 time trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British army.

In 1951, British Health Minister Aneurin Bevan expressed the view that, " It is probably true that Western Europe would have gone socialist after the war if Soviet behaviour had not given it too grim a visage.

British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 – 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.

* 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine composer

* 1905 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer

* Serge Koussevitzky ( 1874 – 1951 ) Virtuoso, composer, conductor

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

* 1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer ( d. 1951 )

* 1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and actor ( d. 1951 )

Richard Kim Milford ( February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988 ) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer.

* 1870 – Howard Brockway, American composer ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer

* 1951 – Trilok Gurtu, Kashmiri Indian percussionist and composer

* Guitarist and composer Dave Barbour ( 1943 – 1951 ); daughter Nicki Lee Foster ( born 1943 )

* 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer ( Weather Report and Trio of Doom ) ( b. 1951 )

* 1951 – Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer

* 1874 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer

** Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer ( died 1951 )

** Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer ( d. 1951 )

* July 29 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer ( d. 1951 )

* Justinian Tamusuza ( b. 1951 ) Ugandan composer

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

* Serge Koussevitzky ( 1874 – 1951 ) Conductor, composer

(; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951 ) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

* Arnold Schoenberg ( 1874 – 1951 ), Austrian-American composer