Year '1951' ('
MCMLI') was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1951
January
★
January 9 -
United Nations headquarters officially opens (
New York City).
★
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:
Chinese and
North Korean forces capture
Seoul.
★
January 20 -
Avalanches in the
Alps - 240 die and 45,000 are buried for a time in
Switzerland,
Austria and
Italy.
★
January 27 -
Nuclear testing 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-
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 / 308 lb.
★
February 6 - A
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more; one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
★
February 6 -
Paul Harvey arrested for trying to break into
Argonne National Laboratory.
★
February 12 - Marriage of
Muhammad Reza Shah to
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
★
February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in
Australia, when Lee and her two
pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73 year old bookmaker.
★
February 27 - The
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting
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
★
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''
comic strip appears in
newspapers across the
U.S. for the first time.
★
March 14 - Korean War: For the second time,
United Nations troops recapture
Seoul.
★
March 14 -
West Germany joins
UNESCO.
★
March 29 -
Red Scare:
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of
conspiracy to commit
espionage. On
April 5 they are sentenced to receive the
death penalty.
★
March 29 -
Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''
The King and I'' opens on
Broadway and runs for three years. It is the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show specifically written for someone - actress
Gertrude Lawrence asked them to write it after seeing the film ''
Anna and the King of Siam''. Unfortunately, Ms. 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, who repeats his role as the King in the
1956 film version and wins an
Oscar for it.
★
March 31 -
Remington Rand delivers the first
UNIVAC I computer to the
United States Census Bureau. The system was later demonstrated to reporter
Walter Cronkite.
April
★
April 1 -
Female suffrage begins in Greece.
★
April 11 -
President Truman relieves
General MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
★
April 18 -
Treaty of Paris (1951) adopted, establishing
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see
EU.
★
April 21 - The
National Olympic Committee of the
USSR 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 government in
Australia is re-elected for a second term.
May
★
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.
★
May 3 - Opening of the
Festival of Britain
★
May 3 - 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 "
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 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.A.
June
★
June 14 -
UNIVAC I is dedicated by
U.S. Census Bureau.
[1]
★
June 15 -
July 1- In
New Mexico,
Arizona,
California,
Oregon,
Washington, and
British Columbia, thousands of hectares (many square miles) 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.
★
July 13 -
MGM's
Technicolor film version of ''
Show Boat'', starring
Kathryn Grayson,
Ava Gardner, and
Howard Keel, premieres at
Radio City Music Hall, the same theatre in which the
1936 film version premiered. The 1951 film receives mixed reviews, but becomes a box office smash. It introduces bass-baritone
William Warfield (singing ''
Ol' Man River'') to movie audiences 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.
★
July 17 - Baudouin takes the oath as king of
Belgium, after his father abdicated the day before.
★
July 17 -
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'' 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 receives excellent reviews, but few theatre engagements, and is a flop in the United States. It 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 (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
★
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 20 -
NATO accepts
Greece and
Turkey as members.
★
September 26-
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
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'' premieres in
New York. It will eventually receive the
Oscar for
Best Picture of 1951.
★
October 4- On Oct. 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. The cancer cells, named HeLa, became an important immortal cell line for cancer research.
★
Shoppers World opens in
Framingham, Massachusetts. It is one the first shopping malls in the
U.S.
★
October 7 -
Malayan Emergency -
communist insurgents kill
British commander Sir
Henry Gurney
★
October 15 - First
oral contraceptive invented by
Luis E. Miramontes
★
October 15 -
I Love Lucy debuts on
CBS.
★
October 16 -
Judy Garland begins her legendary concerts in New York's famed
Palace Theatre
★
October 16 - 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 24 -
President Truman declares official end to war with Germany.
★
October 26 -
Winston Churchill re-elected British
Prime Minister; his
foreign minister is
Anthony Eden
★
October 27 -
Farouk of Egypt declares himself also as a king of
Sudan - no support
★
October 31 - The 1951 version of ''
Scrooge'', starring
Alastair Sim, opens in
England. In this version, unlike the 1935 one, the ghosts are vividly shown.
November
★
November 1 - First military exercises for
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
Eaton Auditorium
★
November 20 -
Po river floods in northern
Italy
★
November 24 - The
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''. Virtually unnoticed then, except for a favorable review in the
New York Times, the film will become a classic upon its first
television showings on local
PBS stations in the early 1970s. It is now considered the finest film version of the novel.
December
★
December 3 - The
Lebanese University is founded in
Lebanon
★
December 6 -
State of emergency in
Egypt due to increasing riots
★
December 13 -
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
★
December 20 - A chartered
C46 Curtis Commando crash lands in
Cobourg,
Ontario Canada - all on board survived.
★
December 24 -
Libya becomes independent from
Italy
★
December 24 -
Gian-Carlo Menotti's 45-minute
opera, ''
Amahl and the Night Visitors'', premieres live on
NBC, becoming the first opera written especially for
television. It is a great success, repeated annually every year for the next fourteen years.
Undated
★ A fourth, and final,
forest fire starts in the
Tillamook Burn; but unlike earlier fires this one only burns 32,700 acres (132 km²), and within area already affected by the earlier fires.
★ A
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 von Hindenburg, his ''
Austrian
passport'', as well as an assortment of
swastika insignia pins and
medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 was made for the collection.
[1]
★
Stockholm,
Sweden – An 18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public. The court calls his actions “obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals.”
[2]
Ongoing
★
Marshall Plan
Fictional
★ The events of '' take place in this year.
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
★
January 5 -
Steve Arnold, English footballer
★
January 6 -
Kim Wilson, American singer and harmonica player
★
January 8 -
Kenny Anthony,
Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
★
January 8 -
John McTiernan, American director, producer, and writer
★
January 12 -
Kirstie Alley, American actress
★
January 12 -
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
★
February 3 -
Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
★
February 14 -
Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager
★
February 15 -
Melissa Manchester, American singer
★
February 15 -
Jane Seymour, English actress
★
February 19 -
Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader
★
February 20 -
Gordon Brown,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
★
February 25 -
Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
★
February 27 -
Steve Harley, British musician (
Cockney Rebel)
★
December 16 -
Mike Flanagan, baseball pitcher
March-April
★
March 1 -
Mike Read, British television presenter and radio disc jockey
★
March 4 -
Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
★
March 4 -
Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and football manager
★
March 4 -
Mike Quarry, American light heavyweight boxer (d.
2006)
★
March 4 -
Chris Rea, British singer and musician
★
March 4 -
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)
★
March 17 -
Kurt Russell, American actor
★
March 18 -
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 laureate
★
April 5 -
Joe Bowen, Canadian Hockey Broadcaster
★
April 5 -
Dean Kamen, American inventor and entrepreneur
★
April 5 -
Frank Moulaert,
Flemish scholar
★
April 5 -
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
★
April 10 -
Steven Seagal, American martial artist, holy man, musician, and actor
★
April 11 -
Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite and murder victim (d.
1997)
★
April 13 -
Peabo Bryson, American singer
★
April 13 -
Peter Davison, British actor
★
April 13 -
Max Weinberg, American drummer
★
April 14 -
Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer
★
April 16 -
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer
★
April 17 -
Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
★
April 19 -
Jóannes Eidesgaard,
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
★
April 20 -
Louise Jameson, British actress
★
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 13 -
Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
★
May 15 -
Jonathan Richman, American musician
★
May 15 -
Frank Wilczek, American physicist,
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
★
May 26 -
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 (d.
2007)
★
June 14 -
Paul Boateng, British politician
★
June 16 -
Roberto Duran,
Panamanian boxer
★
June 20 -
Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
★
June 20 -
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet
★
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
★
July 3 -
Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
★
July 5 -
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 18 -
Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
★
July 21 -
Robin Williams, American actor
★
July 23 -
Michael McConnohie, American actor
★
July 24 -
Chris Smith, British politician
★
July 25 -
Yuriy Kovalchuk, Russian
oligarch
★
August 3 -
Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
★
August 6 -
Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
★
August 8 -
Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
★
August 8 -
Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d.
1994)
★
August 16 -
Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d.
1992)
★
August 19 -
John Deacon, English bassist (
Queen)
★
August 20 -
Greg Bear, American author
★
August 21 -
Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
★
August 23 -
Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
★
August 23 -
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
★
September 7 -
Chrissie Hynde, American singer
★
September 12 -
Joe Pantoliano, American actor
★
September 13 -
Linda Wong, pornstar (d.
1987)
★
September 18 -
Darryl Stingley, Former American football player for the
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
★
September 29 -
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d.
1977)
★
September 29 -
Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
★
September 30 -
Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
★
October 2 -
Sting, British musician
★
October 3 -
Bernard Cooper, American writer
★
October 3 -
Dave Winfield, baseball player
★
October 3 -
Keb Mo', American musician
★
October 4 -
Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov,
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
★
October 18 -
Terry McMillan, American author
★
October 25 -
Richard Lloyd, American guitarist of
Television
★
October 26 -
Bootsy Collins, American musician, singer, and songwriter
★
October 27 -
K. K. Downing, English guitarist (
Judas Priest)
★
October 30 -
Harry Hamlin, American actor
November-December
★
November 2 -
Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
★
November 3 -
Diego Traibel, Uruguayan politician
★
November 11 -
Marc Summers, American television host
★
November 15 -
Alamgir Hashmi, English poet
★
November 16 -
Paula Vogel, American playwright
★
November 16 -
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 30 -
Christian Bernard, French-born mystic
★
December 1 -
Sherry Aldridge, American singer, ''The Aldridge Sisters''
★
December 1 -
Jaco Pastorius, American bassist
★
December 1 -
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
★
December 8 -
Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter
★
December 10 -
Doug Allder, English footballer
★
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, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
★
December 30 -
Meredith Vieira, American television host
Unknown dates
★
Brian Keenan, Irish writer and hostage in Lebanon
★
John Kindness, Irish artist
★
Mr. Butch, homeless person and icon (d. 2007)
Deaths
January-June
★
January 7 -
René Guénon, French-born author (b.
1886)
★
January 10 -
Sinclair Lewis, American writer,
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 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 ("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)
★
April 4 -
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 -
Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier (b.
1884)
★
May 30 -
Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b.
1886)
★
June 4 -
Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b.
1874)
★
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)
★
July 23 -
Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b.
1856)
★
July 29 -
Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b.
1883)
★
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)
★
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 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
★
Physics -
John Cockcroft,
Ernest Walton
★
Chemistry -
Edwin McMillan,
Glenn T. Seaborg
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Max Theiler
★
Literature -
Pär Lagerkvist
★
Peace -
Léon Jouhaux
Ship events
★
List of ship launches in 1951
★
List of ship commissionings in 1951
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1951
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. "Year by Year 1951" -- History Channel International
2. "Year by Year 1951" -- History Channel International.
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