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Year '''1951''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]].
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== Events of 1951 ==
===January===
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* [[January 9]] - [[United Nations]] headquarters officially opens in [[New York City]].
[[Image:United Nations HQ - New York City.jpg|thumb|160px|right| [[January 9]]: [[United Nations]] headquarters opened.]]
* [[January 15]] - [[Ilse Koch]], The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the [[Commandant]] of the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in [[West Germany]].
* [[January 17]] - [[Korean War]]: [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] and [[North Korea]]n forces capture [[Seoul]].
* [[January 20]] - [[Avalanche]]s in the [[Alps]] - 240 die and 45,000 are buried for a time in [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]] and [[Italy]].
* [[January 27]] - [[Nuclear test]]ing at the [[Nevada Test Site]] begins with a one-[[kiloton]] bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of [[Las Vegas, Nevada]].
===February===
* [[February 1]] - [[United Nations General Assembly]] declares that [[China]] is the [[aggressor]] in the Korean War.
* [[February 4]]-[[February 8|8]] - Surgeons remove an [[ovarian cyst]] from Gertrude Levandowski in 96-hour long operation in [[Chicago]]. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg.
* [[February 6]]
** A [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] passenger train derails near [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey]], killing 85 people and injuring over 500 - one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
* [[February 12]] - Marriage of [[Muhammad Reza Shah]] to [[Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari]].
* [[February 19]]- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hung in [[Australia]], when Lee and her two [[pimp]]s are hung for the murder and torture of a 73 year old bookmaker.
* [[February 27]] - The [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution]], limiting [[President of the United States|Presidents]] to two terms, is ratified.
*[[February 28]] - [[Linus Pauling]], [[Robert Corey]], and [[Herman Branson]] publish the findings of the [[α-helix]] and the [[β-sheet]].
===March===
[[Image:Julius and Ethel Rosenberg NYWTS.jpg|thumb|170px|right| [[March 29]]: [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg|Rosenbergs]].]]
* [[March 6]] - The trial of [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]] begins.
* [[March 7]] - Korean War: [[Operation Ripper]] - In [[Korea]], [[United Nations]] troops led by General [[Matthew Ridgeway]] begin an assault against the Chinese "volunteers".
* [[March 12]] - The ''[[Dennis the Menace (U.S.)|Dennis the Menace]]'' [[comic strip]] appears in [[newspaper]]s across the [[U.S.]] for the first time.
* [[March 14]]
**Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
**West Germany joins [[UNESCO]].
* [[March 29]]
**[[Second Red Scare]]: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] to commit [[espionage]]. On [[April 5]] they are sentenced to receive the [[death penalty]].
**[[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[The King and I]]'' opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and runs for three years. It is the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show specifically written for someone - actress [[Gertrude Lawrence]]. Lawrence is stricken with [[cancer]] during the run of the show and dies halfway through its run. The show makes a star of [[Yul Brynner]].
**[[23rd Academy Awards]] ceremony
* [[March 31]] - [[Remington Rand]] delivers the first [[UNIVAC I]] computer to the [[United States Census Bureau]].
[[Image:UNIVAC 1 demo.jpg|thumb|160px|right| [[March 31]]: [[UNIVAC I]].]]
===April===
* [[April 1]] - [[Female suffrage]] begins in [[Greece]].
* [[April 11]] - U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] relieves General [[Douglas MacArthur]] of his Far Eastern commands.
* [[April 11]] - After its removal from [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[Christmas Day]], 1950, the [[Stone of Scone]] resurfaces on the altar of [[Arbroath Abbey]].
* [[April 18]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1951)]] adopted, establishing [[European Coal and Steel Community]].
* [[April 21]] - The [[National Olympic Committee]] of the [[Soviet Union]] is formed. The USSR first participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.
* [[April 24]] - In [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]] a fire on a [[train]] leaves more than 100 dead.
* [[April 28]] - [[Robert Menzies]]' [[Liberal Party (Australia)|Liberal Party]] government in [[Australia]] is re-elected for a second term.
===May===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Opera house]] of [[Geneva, Switzerland]] is almost destroyed in a fire.
* [[May 3]]
**HM King George VI opens [[London]]'s [[Royal Festival Hall]] as patron.
**Opening of the [[Festival of Britain]]
**The [[U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services]] and [[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]] begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by [[U.S. President]] Harry S. Truman.
* [[May 9]] - The first test of a nuclear weapon with [[thermonuclear]] materials, the "[[Operation Greenhouse|George]]" test on [[Enewetok]] Atoll in the [[Marshall Islands]], by the United States.
* [[May 14]] - First volunteer-run passenger trains run on [[Talyllyn Railway]], [[Wales]].
* [[May 15]] - [[Military coup]] in [[Bolivia]]
* [[May 21]] - [[Ninth Street Show]], otherwise known as the [[9th Street Art Exhibition]], was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war [[New York]] [[avant-garde]], collectively known as the [[New York School]].
* [[May 23]] - [[Tibet]]ans were forced to sign the [[Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet]] with the [[People's Republic of China]].
* [[May 25]] - The first test of an atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U.S.
===June===
* [[June 14]] - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/ CNN.com - 50th anniversary of the UNIVAC I - June 14, 2001<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[June 15]] - [[July 1]]- In [[New Mexico]], [[Arizona]], [[California]], [[Oregon]], [[Washington]], and [[British Columbia]], thousands of hectares of forests were destroyed in fires.
===July===
* [[July 1]] - [[Judy Garland]] opens the first of 14 concerts in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] at the [[Theatre Royal]].
* [[July 5]] - [[William Shockley]], [[John Bardeen]], and [[Walter Brattain]] announce the invention of the junction [[transistor]].
* [[July 10]] - Korean War: At [[Kaesong]], [[armistice]] negotiations begin.
* [[July 13]]
**The [[Great Flood of 1951]] reaches its highest point in Northeast [[Kansas]], culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in the [[Midwestern United States]].
**[[MGM]]'s [[Technicolor]] film version of ''[[Show Boat]]'', starring [[Kathryn Grayson]], [[Ava Gardner]], and [[Howard Keel]], premieres at [[Radio City Music Hall]]. The 1951 film introduces bass-baritone [[William Warfield]] (singing ''[[Ol' Man River]]'') and makes him nationally famous overnight.
* [[July 14]] - In [[Joplin, Missouri]], the [[George Washington Carver National Monument]] becomes the first [[United States National Monument]] in honor of an [[African American]].
* [[July 16]] - King [[Léopold III of Belgium]] signs the act of [[abdication]] in favour of his son [[Baudouin of Belgium|Baudouin]].
* [[July 17]]
**Baudouin takes the oath as king of [[Belgium]], after his father abdicated the day before.
**[[Western New England College]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] is chartered.
* [[July 20]] - King [[Abdullah I of Jordan]] is assassinated by a [[Palestinian]] while attending Friday prayers in [[Jerusalem]].
* [[July 30]] - [[David Lean]]'s ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' is finally shown in the [[United States]], after ten minutes of supposedly [[anti-Semitic]] references and closeups of [[Alec Guinness]] as [[Fagin]] are cut. The film is a critical success, but a financial flop in the United States, and receives few bookings in U.S. theatres, mostly due to the anti-Semitic charges leveled against it. The film is not shown uncut in the U.S. until [[1970]].
===August===
* [[August 11]] - [[René Pleven]] becomes Prime Minister of [[France]].
===September===
* [[September 1]] - The [[United States]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] all sign a mutual defense pact, called the [[ANZUS Treaty]].
* [[September 8]] - [[Treaty of San Francisco]]: In [[San Francisco, California]], 48 nations sign a [[peace treaty]] with [[Japan]] in formal recognition of the end of the [[Pacific War]].
* [[September 9]] - Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
* [[September 10]] - The [[United Kingdom]] begins an [[economic]] [[boycott]] of [[Iran]].
* [[September 18]] - The film ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' premieres and becomes a critical and box-office smash.
* [[September 20]] - [[NATO]] accepts [[Greece]] and [[Turkey]] as members.
* [[September 26]]-[[September 28|28]] - Blue sun seen over [[Europe]]: the effect is due to ash coming from the [[Canadian]] forest fires four months previously.
===October===
* [[October 3]] - "Shot Heard 'Round the World" One of the greatest moments in [[Major League Baseball]] history occurs when the [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]' [[Bobby Thomson]] hits a game winning [[home run]] in the bottom of the ninth [[inning]] off of the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] [[pitcher]] [[Ralph Branca]], to win the [[National League]] [[pennant]] after being down 14 games.
* [[October 4]]
**The [[Gene Kelly]] film ''[[An American in Paris (film)|An American in Paris]]'' premieres in [[New York]].
*[[Shoppers World]] opens in [[Framingham, Massachusetts]]. It is one the first shopping malls in the [[U.S.]]
* [[October 7]] - [[Malayan Emergency]] - [[communist]] [[insurgent]]s kill [[United Kingdom|British]] commander Sir [[Henry Gurney]]
* [[October 15]]
**First [[combined oral contraceptive pill|oral contraceptive]] invented by [[Luis E. Miramontes]]
**[[I Love Lucy]] debuts on [[CBS]].
* [[October 16]]
**[[Judy Garland]] begins her legendary concerts in New York's [[Palace Theatre]]
**Assassination of [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], Prime Minister of [[Pakistan]]
* [[October 20]] - The "[[Johnny Bright Incident]]" occurred in [[Stillwater]], [[Oklahoma]]
* [[October 21]] - Storm in southern [[Italy]] - over 100 dead
* [[October 22]] - [[William David "Dave" Sanders]] - a victim of the [[Columbine High School massacre]]
* [[October 24]] - U.S. President Harry Truman declares official end to war with Germany.
* [[October 26]] - [[Winston Churchill]] re-elected [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]; his [[foreign minister]] is [[Anthony Eden]]
* [[October 27]] - [[Farouk of Egypt]] declares himself king of [[Sudan]], with no support.
* [[October 31]] - ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]'', starring [[Alastair Sim]], opens in [[England]].
===November===
* [[November 1]] - First military exercises for [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]], with infantry troops included, in the [[Nevada]] desert
* [[November 10]] - [[Direct dial]] coast-to-coast [[telephone]] service begins in the United States.
* [[November 11]] - [[Juan Peron]] re-elected president of [[Argentina]]
* [[November 12]] - The [[National Ballet of Canada]] performs for the first time on the [[The Carlu|Eaton Auditorium]]
* [[November 20]] - [[Po river]] floods in northern [[Italy]].
* [[November 24]] - The [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] play [[Gigi]] opens starring little known actress [[Audrey Hepburn]] playing the lead character.
* [[November 28]] - ''Scrooge'', starring Alastair Sim, opens in the [[United States]] under the title of [[Charles Dickens]]'s original novel, ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.
===December===
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* [[December 3]] - The [[Lebanese University]] is founded in [[Lebanon]].
* [[December 6]] - [[State of emergency]] declared in [[Egypt]] due to increasing riots.
* [[December 13]] - [[water tank|Water storage tank]] collapses in [[Tucumcari, New Mexico]] - 4 dead, 200 buildings destroyed.
* [[December 16]] - [[Salar Jung Museum]] is opened to the public by the [[Prime Minister]] of [[India]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].
* [[December 20]]
**[[EBR-1]], World's first (experimental) [[nuclear power plant]] opened.
**A chartered [[C-46|C46 Curtis Commando]] crash lands in [[Cobourg]], [[Ontario]] [[Canada]] - all on board survived.
* [[December 23]] - The film ''[[The African Queen]]'', starring [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]], premieres in Hollywood.
* [[December 24]]
**[[Libya]] becomes independent from [[Italy]].
**[[Gian-Carlo Menotti]]'s 45-minute [[opera]] ''[[Amahl and the Night Visitors]]'', premieres live on [[NBC]], becoming the first opera written especially for [[television]].
===Undated===
* A fourth, and final, [[forest fire]] starts in the [[Tillamook Burn]]; but unlike earlier fires this one only burns 32,700 acres, and within area already affected by the earlier fires.
* The most complete recording of [[Gershwin]]'s opera ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' made until then, a 3-LP [[Columbia Masterworks Records]] 129-minute album in [[mono]], is released to great critical acclaim. There will be no truly complete recording of ''Porgy and Bess'' until 1976.
* A [[International Auxiliary Language Association|research team]] publishes the ''Interlingua-English Dictionary''.
* [[IBM]] [[United Kingdom]] is formed.
* [[1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute]] lasts for 151 days.
* [[Munich]] [[Germany]] – A collection of mementos and personal papers belonging to [[Adolf Hitler]] are turned over to [[Bayerische Landesbank]] for authentication and eventual sale. Among the documents are his ''appointment as Chancellor'' signed by [[President of Germany|President]] [[Paul von Hindenburg]], his ''[[Austria]]n [[passport]]'', as well as an assortment of [[swastika]] [[insignia]] [[pins]] and [[medals]]. An initial offer of $200,000.00 was made for the collection.<ref>"Year by Year 1951" -- [[History Channel International]]</ref>
===Ongoing===
* [[Marshall Plan]]
* [[First Indochina War]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 1]]
**[[Álvaro Magalhães]], Portuguese writer
**[[Ashfaq Hussain]], Urdu poet
*[[January 2]] - [[Valdir Peres]], Brazilian footballer
*[[January 5]] - [[Steve Arnold (footballer)|Steve Arnold]], English footballer
*[[January 6]] - [[Kim Wilson]], American singer and harmonica player
*[[January 8]]
**[[Kenny Anthony]], [[Prime Minister of Saint Lucia]]
**[[John McTiernan]], American director, producer, and writer
*[[January 12]]
**[[Kirstie Alley]], American actress
**[[Rush Limbaugh]], American radio personality
*[[January 20]] - [[Ian Hill]], English bassist ([[Judas Priest]])
*[[January 25]] - [[Steve Prefontaine]], American runner (d. [[1975]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Phil Collins]], English musician and producer
*[[January 31]] - [[Harry Wayne Casey]], American musician, songwriter, and producer
*[[January 13]] - [[Phil Manzanera]], British rock musician
*[[February 3]] - [[Eugenijus Riabovas]], Lithuanian football manager
*[[February 14]] - [[Kevin Keegan]], English footballer and football manager
*[[February 15]]
**[[Melissa Manchester]], American singer
**[[Jane Seymour (actress)|Jane Seymour]], English actress
*[[February 19]] - [[Tahir-ul-Qadri]], Islamic scholar and leader
*[[February 20]]
**[[Gordon Brown]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
**[[Edward Albert]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Don Quarrie]], Jamaican sprinter
*[[February 27]] - [[Steve Harley]], British musician ([[Cockney Rebel]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Mike Flanagan]], baseball pitcher
===March-April===
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*[[March 1]] - [[Mike Read]], British television presenter and radio disc jockey
*[[March 4]]
**[[Edelgard Bulmahn]], German politician
**[[Kenny Dalglish]], Scottish footballer and football manager
**[[Mike Quarry]], American light heavyweight boxer (d. [[2006]])
**[[Chris Rea]], British singer and musician
**[[Linda Yamamoto]], Japanese pop star
*[[March 6]] - [[Gerrie Knetemann]], Dutch cyclist (d. [[2004]])
*[[March 8]] - [[Karen Kain]], Canadian ballerina
*[[March 12]] - [[Susan Musgrave]] Canadian poet and children's writer
*[[March 13]] - [[Fred Berry]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 14]] - [[Jerry Greenfield]], co-founder of [[Ben & Jerry's]] ice cream
*[[March 17]]
**[[Scott Gorham]], American guitarist ([[Thin Lizzy]])
**[[Kurt Russell]], American actor
*[[March 18]] - [[Ben Cohen (ice cream)|Ben Cohen]], co-founder of [[Ben & Jerry's]] ice cream
*[[March 24]] - [[Tommy Hilfiger]], American fashion designer
*[[March 26]] - [[Carl Wieman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[April 5]] - [[Joe Bowen]], Canadian Hockey Broadcaster
**[[Dean Kamen]], American inventor and entrepreneur
**[[Frank Moulaert]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] scholar
**[[Guy Vanderhaeghe]], Canadian author
*[[April 6]] - [[Bert Blyleven]], Dutch [[Major League Baseball]] player
*[[April 7]] - [[Janis Ian]], American singer and songwriter
*[[April 10]]
**[[David Helvarg]], American journalist and activist
**[[Steven Seagal]], American martial artist and actor
*[[April 11]] - [[Doris McGowen Beck Angleton]], American socialite and murder victim (d. [[1997]])
*[[April 13]]
**[[Peabo Bryson]], American singer
**[[Peter Davison]], British actor
**[[Max Weinberg]], American drummer
*[[April 14]] - [[Julian Lloyd Webber]], English cellist
*[[April 16]]
**[[Ioan Mihai Cochinescu]], Romanian writer
**[[Pierre Toutain-Dorbec]], French photographer
**[[Björgvin Halldórsson]], Icelandic singer
**[[Mordechai Ben David]], Jewish singer
*[[April 17]] - [[Olivia Hussey]], Argentine-born actress
*[[April 19]] - [[Jóannes Eidesgaard]], [[Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands]]
*[[April 20]] - [[Luther Vandross]], American soul musician (d. [[2005]])
*[[April 20]] - [[Louise Jameson]], British actress
*[[April 21]] - [[Tony Danza]], American actor and comedian
*[[April 27]] - [[Ace Frehley]], Guitarist for the Rock band Kiss
*[[April 29]] - [[Dale Earnhardt]], American race car driver (d. [[2001]])
===May-June===
*[[May 4]] - [[Mick Mars]], American musician
*[[May 9]] - [[Christopher Dewdney]], Canadian poet
*[[May 9]] - [[Joy Harjo]], Poet
*[[May 13]] - [[Sharon Sayles Belton]], Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
*[[May 15]]
**[[Jonathan Richman]], American musician
**[[Frank Wilczek]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[May 19]] - [[Joey Ramone]], American musician ([[The Ramones]]) (d. [[2001]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Anatoly Karpov]], Russian chess player
*[[May 26]]
**[[Madeleine Taylor-Quinn]], Irish politician
**[[Sally Ride]], astronaut
*[[May 30]] - [[Stephen Tobolowsky]], American actor
*[[June 2]] - [[Larry Robinson]], Canadian hockey player
*[[June 5]] - [[Suze Orman]], American [[financial advisor]], [[writer]], and [[television personality]]
*[[June 8]] - [[Bonnie Tyler]], Welsh singer
*[[June 12]] - [[Andranik Margaryan]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Armenia]] (d. [[2007]])
* June 12 - [[Brad Delp]], lead vocalist of [[Boston (band)|Boston]] (d. [[2007]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Paul Boateng]], British politician
*[[June 16]] - [[Roberto Duran]], [[Panama]]nian boxer
*[[June 20]] - [[Tress MacNeille]], American voice actress
*[[June 20]] - [[Paul Muldoon]], Irish poet
*[[June 24]] - [[David Rodigan]], radio DJ/actor
*[[June 27]] - [[Mary McAleese]], eighth [[President of Ireland]]
*[[June 28]] - [[Lalla Ward]], British actress
*[[June 28]] - [[Lloyd Maines]], American musician and record producer
*[[June 29]] - [[Keno Don Rosa]], American comic book author
*[[June 30]] - [[Stanley Clarke]], American bassist
===July-August===
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*[[July 1]] - [[Terrence Mann]], American actor and dancer
*[[July 1]] - [[Anne Feeney]], American folk singer
*[[July 3]] - [[Richard Hadlee]], New Zealand cricketer
*[[July 5]] - [[Rich Gossage|Rich "Goose" Gossage]], baseball player
*[[July 8]] - [[Anjelica Huston]], American actress
*[[July 10]] - [[Cheryl Wheeler]], American singer and songwriter
*[[July 14]] - [[Erich Hallhuber]], German actor (d. [[2003]])
*[[July 16]] - [[Stewart Copeland]], American drummer
*[[July 16]] - [[Jean-Luc Mongrain]], Canadian news anchor and journalist
*[[July 18]] - [[Elio Di Rupo]], Belgian politician
*[[July 21]] - [[Robin Williams]], American actor
*[[July 23]] - [[Edie McClurg]], American Actress
*[[July 23]] - [[Michael McConnohie]], American actor
*[[July 24]] - [[Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury|Chris Smith]], British politician
*[[July 25]] - [[Yuriy Kovalchuk]], Russian [[oligarch]]
*[[July 28]]
**[[Garrett Hongo]], Japanese-American poet
**[[Doug Collins]], American basketball player, coach and analyst
*[[August 3]] - [[Marcel Dionne]], Canadian hockey player
*[[August 6]] - [[Daryl Somers]], Australian television personality
*[[August 8]]
**[[Mamoru Oshii]], Japanese film director
**[[Randy Shilts]], American journalist and author (d. [[1994]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Willie Horton]], American criminal
*[[August 13]] - [[Dan Fogelberg]], American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (d. [[2007]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Richard Hunt (puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]], American puppeteer (d. [[1992]])
*[[August 19]] - [[John Deacon]], English bassist ([[Queen (band)|Queen]])
*[[August 20]] - [[Greg Bear]], American author
*[[August 21]] - [[Eric Goles]], Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
*[[August 22]] - [[Chandra Prakash Mainali]], Nepalese politician
*[[August 23]]
**[[Akhmad Kadyrov]], President of Chechnya
**[[Queen Noor of Jordan]]
*[[August 24]] - [[Orson Scott Card]], American writer
*[[August 25]] - [[Rob Halford]], English singer ([[Judas Priest]])
*[[August 26]] - [[Edward Witten]], American mathematician and Fields medalist
===September-October===
* [[September 5]] - [[Michael Keaton]], American actor
* [[September 7]]
**[[Julie Kavner]], American actress
**[[Chrissie Hynde]], American singer
**[[Bert Jones]], Baltimore Colts Quarterback
* [[September 12]] - [[Joe Pantoliano]], American actor
* [[September 13]] - [[Linda Wong]], pornstar (d. [[1987]])
* [[September 18]] - [[Darryl Stingley]], Former American football player for the [[National Football League|NFL]] [[New England Patriots]] (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Aslan Maskhadov]], President of Chechnya
* [[September 22]] - [[David Coverdale]], English singer
* [[September 25]] - [[Mark Hamill]], American actor
* [[September 26]] - [[Stuart Tosh]], Scottish musician
* [[September 27]] - [[Paul Craig]], English professor of law
* [[September 29]]
**[[Michelle Bachelet]], [[President of Chile]]
**[[Andrés Caicedo]], Colombian writer (d. [[1977]])
**[[Maureen Caird]], Australian hurdler
* [[September 30]] - [[Barry Marshall]], Australian physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[October 2]] - [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], British musician
* [[October 3]]
**[[Bernard Cooper]], American writer
**[[Dave Winfield]], baseball player
**[[Keb Mo']], American musician
* [[October 4]] - [[Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov]], [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] poet
* [[October 5]] - [[Bob Geldof]], Irish musician ([[The Boomtown Rats]])
* [[October 6]] - [[Manfred Winkelhock]], German race car driver
* [[October 7]] - [[John Mellencamp]], American musician and songwriter
* [[October 10]] - [[Epeli Ganilau]], Fiji soldier and statesman
* [[October 11]] - [[Jean-Jacques Goldman]], French singer and songwriter
* [[October 18]]
**[[Mike Antonovich]], American ice hockey player and executive
**[[Terry McMillan]], American author
* [[October 25]] - [[Richard Lloyd (guitarist)|Richard Lloyd]], American guitarist of [[Television (band)|Television]]
* [[October 26]]
**[[Bootsy Collins]], American musician, singer, and songwriter
** [[Willie P. Bennett]], Canadian songwriter and singer (d. [[2008]])
* [[October 27]] - [[K. K. Downing]], English guitarist ([[Judas Priest]])
* [[October 30]] - [[Harry Hamlin]], American actor
===November-December===
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* [[November 2]] - [[Thomas Mallon]], American author and critic
* [[November 3]] - [[Diego Traibel]], Uruguayan politician
* [[November 3]] - [[Ed Murawinski]], American cartoonist, New York Daily News
* [[November 11]] - [[Marc Summers]], American television host
* [[November 15]] - [[Alamgir Hashmi]], English poet
* [[November 16]]
**[[Paula Vogel]], American playwright
**[[Miguel Sandoval]], American actor
* [[November 18]] - [[Justin Raimondo]], American author
* [[November 19]] - [[Lord Falconer of Thoroton]], British politician
* [[November 24]] - [[Chet Edwards]], American politician
* [[November 26]] - [[Cicciolina]], Italian actress and politician
* [[November 29]] - [[Roger Troutman]], Funk musician who is the master of the talkbox. (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Christian Bernard]], French-born mystic
*[[December 1]]
**[[The Aldridge Sisters|Sherry Aldridge]], American singer, ''The Aldridge Sisters''
**[[Jaco Pastorius]], American bassist
**[[Treat Williams]], American actor
*[[December 2]] - [[Adrian Devine]], American baseball pitcher
*[[December 6]] - [[Tomson Highway]], Canadian writer
*[[December 8]]
**[[Bill Bryson]], American-born British author
**[[Jan Eggum]], Norwegian singer and songwriter
*[[December 10]] - [[Doug Allder]], English footballer
*[[December 11]] - [[Peter T. Daniels]], American scholar
*[[December 12]] - [[Wau Holland]], German hacker (d. [[2001]])
*[[December 14]] - [[Jan Timman]], Dutch chess player
*[[December 17]] - [[Ken Hitchcock]], Canadian hockey coach
*[[December 20]] - [[Peter May (writer)|Peter May]], Scottish novelist and television dramatist
*[[December 29]] - [[Georges Thurston]], Canadian singer (d. [[2007]])
*[[December 30]] - [[Meredith Vieira]], American television host
===Unknown dates===
*[[Matt Cates]], American [[voice actor]]
*[[Brian Keenan (hostage)|Brian Keenan]], Irish writer and hostage in Lebanon
*[[John Kindness]], Irish artist
*[[Mr. Butch]], homeless person and icon (d. 2007)
==Deaths==
===January-June===
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*[[January 5]] - [[Ken Le Breton]], Australian speedway rider (b. [[1925]])
*[[January 7]] - [[René Guénon]], French-born author (b. [[1886]])
*[[January 10]] - [[Sinclair Lewis]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]])
*[[January 18]] - [[Amy Carmichael]], Irish missionary to India (b. [[1867]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Yuriko Miyamoto]], Japanese novelist (b. [[1899]])
*[[January 28]] - [[Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim]], President of Finland (b. [[1867]])
*[[January 29]] - [[Frank Tarrant]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1880]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Ferdinand Porsche]], German engineer (b. [[1875]])
*[[February 9]] - [[Eddy Duchin]], American pianist and bandleader (b. [[1909]])
*[[February 13]] - [[Lloyd C. Douglas]], American author (b. [[1877]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Lyman Gilmore]], American aviation pioneer (b. [[1874]])
*[[February 19]] - [[André Gide]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1869]])
*[[February 12]] - [[Choudhary Rahmat Ali]], one of the founding fathers of Pakistan (b. [[1895]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Ivor Novello]], Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. [[1893]])
*[[March 10]] - [[Kijūrō Shidehara|Kijūrō Shidehara ("Shidehara Kijūrō")]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1872]])
*[[March 21]] - [[Willem Mengelberg]], Dutch conductor (b. [[1871]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Eddie Collins]], baseball player (b. [[1887]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Oscar Micheaux]], American filmmaker (b. [[1884]])
*[[April 4]] -
**[[Al Christie]], Canadian-born film director and producer (b. [[1881]])
**[[George Albert Smith]], president of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1870]])
*[[April 6]] - [[Robert Broom]], Scottish paleontologist (b. [[1866]])
*[[April 14]] - [[Ernest Bevin]], British labour leader, politician, and statesman (b. [[1881]])
*[[April 22]] - [[Horace Donisthorpe]], English myrmecologist (b. [[1870]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Charles G. Dawes]], [[Vice President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1865]])
*[[April 29]] - [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], Austrian philosopher (b.[[1889]])
*[[May 7]] - [[Warner Baxter]], American actor (b. [[1889]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Thomas Blamey|Sir Thomas Albert Blamey]], Australian soldier (b. [[1884]])
*[[May 29]] - [[Fanny Brice]], American entertainer (b. [[1891]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Hermann Broch]], Austrian author (b. [[1886]])
*[[June 4]] - [[Serge Koussevitzky]], Russian conductor (b. [[1874]])
*[[June 7]] - [[Oswald Pohl]], German SS officer (b. [[1892]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Ben Chifley]], [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1885]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Charles Dillon Perrine]], American-born astronomer (b. [[1867]])
===July - December===
*[[July 9]] - [[Harry Heilmann]], baseball player (b. [[1894]])
*[[July 13]] - [[Arnold Schoenberg]], Austrian composer (b. [[1874]])
*[[July 20]] - King [[Abdullah I of Jordan]] (b. [[1882]])
*[[July 23]] -
**[[Robert J. Flaherty]], American filmmaker (b. [[1884]])
**[[Philippe Pétain]], leader of Vichy France (b. [[1856]])
*[[August 14]] - [[William Randolph Hearst]], American newspaper publisher (b. [[1863]])
*[[August 15]] - [[Artur Schnabel]], Polish pianist (b. [[1882]])
*[[August 21]] - [[Constant Lambert]], British composer (b. [[1905]])
*[[August 26]] - [[Bill Barilko]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1927]])
*[[August 28]] - [[Robert Hudson Walker|Robert Walker]], American actor (b. [[1918]])
*[[September 29]] - [[Thomas Cahill (soccer)|Thomas Cahill]], American soccer coach (b. [[1864]])
*[[October 6]] - [[Otto Fritz Meyerhof]], German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1884]])
*[[October 16]] - [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], first [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (b. [[1896]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Reggie Walker]], South African athlete (b. [[1889]])
*[[November 9]] - [[Sigmund Romberg]], Hungarian-born composer (b. [[1887]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Nikolai Karlovich Medtner|Nikolai Medtner]], Russian pianist and composer (b. [[1880]])
*[[December 5]] - [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]], baseball player (b. [[1889]])
*[[December 6]] - [[Harold Ross]], American editor (b.[[1892]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[John Cockcroft]], [[Ernest Walton]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Edwin McMillan]], [[Glenn T. Seaborg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Max Theiler]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Pär Lagerkvist]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Leon Jouhaux|Léon Jouhaux]]
==Ship events==
* [[List of ship launches in 1951]]
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1951]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1951]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1951-pictures.html 1951 Coin Pictures]
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