page_title: 1951
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1951 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: EPP Summit, Brussels; October 2014
context_page_description: 1951 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1951st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: May 3
  Christopher Cross, American singer, songwriter ("Sailing")
  Stewart F. Lane, American Broadway producer, director, playwright and actor
  May 4 – Jackie Jackson, African-American singer
  May 6
  Antonio Saldías, Chilean historian
  Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
  May 9
  Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
  Joy Harjo, Native American poet
  May 13
  Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Selina Scott, English journalist, television presenter
  Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
  James Whale, English radio presenter
  May 15
  Yoshifumi Hibako, Japanese general
  Jonathan Richman, American musician
  Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  May 16 – Unshō Ishizuka, Japanese voice actor (d. 2018)
  May 18 – Ben Feringa, Dutch organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  May 19
  Joey Ramone, American rock musician (Ramones) (d. 2001)
  Dick Slater, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
  May 20 – Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)
  May 21
  Al Franken, American comedian (Saturday Night Live) and U.S. Senator (D-MN)
  May 23
  Jill E. Barad, American businessperson
  Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
  Antonis Samaras, Greek economist, politician and 185th Prime Minister of Greece
  May 25 – Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian politician (d. 2015)
  May 26
  Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and businessman
  Lou van den Dries, Dutch mathematician
  Sally Ride, American astronaut (d. 2012)
  Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
  May 30
  Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
  Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay
  May 31 – Jimmy Nalls, American guitarist (Sea Level) (d. 2017)
caption: Antonis Samaras
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