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1951
1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
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.
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IBM United Kingdom formed
Year in topic
Births
January-March
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January 6 - Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player
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January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
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January 12 - Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
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January 30 - Phil Collins, musician
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February 6 - Princess Daphné of Belgium
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February 14 - Kevin Keegan, footballer and football manager
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February 15 - Melissa Manchester, singer
- February 15 - Jane Seymour, actress
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February 20 - Gordon Brown, British politician
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February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
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March 4 - Kenny Dalglish footballer and football manager
- March 4 - Chris Rea, British singer and musician
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March 8 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
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March 17 - Kurt Russell, actor
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March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
April-June
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April 6 - Bert Blyleven, baseball pitcher
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April 7 - Janis Ian, singer and songwriter
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April 10 - Steven Seagal, actor
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April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite (d. 1997)
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April 13 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer
- April 13 - Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who
- April 13 - Max Weinberg, drummer
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April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, stock car racer (NASCAR) (d. 2001)
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May 10 - Michael Tarn , actor
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May 15 - Jonathan Richman, musician
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May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion
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May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut
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May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky , actor
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June 2 - Larry Robinson, Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman
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June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician, first black Cabinet minister
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June 17 - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland
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June 20 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress
July-September
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July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
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July 5 - Rich "Goose" Gossage, baseball pitcher
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July 8 - Anjelica Huston, actress
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July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter
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June 28 - Lloyd Maines, country music musician and record producer
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July 24 - Chris Smith, British politician, first "out" gay MP
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August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Hockey Hall of Famer
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August 6 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
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August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author
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August 23 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
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August 23 - Queen Noor of Jordan
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August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
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September 7 - Julie Kavner, voice actress
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September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, actor
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September 22 - David Coverdale, singer
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September 29 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
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September 29 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
October-December
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October 3 - Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer
- October 3 - Keb Mo', blues musician
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October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
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October 7 - John Mellencamp, musician/songwriter
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October 10 - Ratu Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and statesman
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October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
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October 26 - Bootsy Collins, funk musician, singer, songwriter
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October 30 - Harry Hamlin, actor
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November 11 - Marc Summers, television host
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November 15 - Alamgir Hashmi, poet, scholar, professor
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November 19 - Lord Falconer, British lawyer and politician
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November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician
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November 26 - Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, pornographic film actress, politician
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November 30 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, Imperator of AMORC
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December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, NHL coach
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December 30 - Meredith Viera, television host
Deaths
January-March
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January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, writer
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January 29 - Frank Tarrant, Australian all-rounder and one of the best cricketers never to play a Test match (b. 1880).
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February 9 - Eddy Duchin, musician
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February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
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February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer
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February 19 - André Gide, author
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February 21 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895)
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March 6 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer
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March 10 - Shidehara Kijuro, Japanese prime minister
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March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
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March 25 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, pioneer African-American, filmmaker/author
April-June
July-September
October-December
Last updated: 10-24-2005 16:22:56
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