1951

**1951** (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events

- January 4 – The Communist forces of North Korea and China seize the city of Seoul.
- Bette Nesmith Graham invents Liquid Paper

## Births

- January 6 – Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player
- January 7 - Helen Worth, English actress
- January 12 – Kirstie Alley, actress
    - Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
    - Larry Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans) (d. 2012)
- January 30 – Phil Collins, English musician (Genesis)
- January 31 - Harry Wayne Casey, American keyboardist (KC & the Sunshine Band)
- February 6 – Princess Daphné of Belgium
- February 14 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager
- February 15 – Melissa Manchester, singer
- February 15 – Jane Seymour, actress
- February 18 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing car driver (d. 2001)
- February 19 – Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader
- February 20 – Gordon Brown, Scottish politician
- February 25 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
- March 4 – Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and football manager
- March 4 – Chris Rea, British singer and musician
- March 8 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
- March 17 – Kurt Russell, actor
- March 24 – Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
- April 13 – Peter Davison, actor
- April 13 - Peabo Bryson, American singer
- April 21 - David Mallett, American folk musician
- April 25 - Fred Hubbell, politician
- April 27 – Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss)
- April 30 - Ken Whiteley, Canadian folk musician
- May 15 - Dennis Frederiksen, American singer (Toto) (d. 2014)
- June 12 - Bun E. Carlos, American drummer (Cheap Trick)
- August 13 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (d. 2007)
- August 19 - John Deacon, English bass guitarist (Queen)
- October 2 - Sting, English bass guitarist (The Police)
- October 10 - Adrian Nastasiu - Romanian water polo player
- November 14 - Stephen Bishop, American singer-songwriter
- December 1 – Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (d. 1987)
- December 31 - Tom Hamilton, American bass guitarist (Aerosmith)

- People who were born in this year but their day of birth is unknown
- Lee Cornes, English stand-up comedian

## Deaths

- January 30 – Ferdinand Porsche, German car designer
- February 12 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Pakistani student
- April 9 – Sadegh Hedayat
- July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg

## Movies released

- _A Streetcar Named Desire_
- _The African Queen_
- _Calamity Jane_
- _Flying Leathernecks_
- _The Thing From Another World_
- _No Highway_
- _Alice in Wonderland_
- _On the Riviera_
- _The Day the Earth Stood Still_
- _When Worlds Collide_
- _Bedtime for Bonzo_
- _Miss Julie_
- _Strangers on a Train_
- _Rashomon_
- _Miracle in Milan_
- _The Lavender Hill Mob_
- _An American in Paris_
- _Death of a Salesman_
- _Gerald McBoing-Boing_
- _The Man in the White Suit_
- _A Place in the Sun_
- _The Big Carnival_

## Hit Songs

- "Aba Daba Honeymoon" – Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter
- "Because" – Mario Lanza
- "Because Of You" – Tony Bennett
- "Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle" – Guy Mitchell
- "Blue Tango" – Leroy Anderson & his Orchestra
- "Cold, Cold Heart" – Tony Bennett
- "Come On-A My House" – Rosemary Clooney
- "Cry" – Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
- "Detour" – Patti Page
- "Down The Trail Of Achin' Hearts" – Patti Page
- "Down Yonder" – Del Wood
- "Down Yonder" – Champ Butler
- "Flamenco" – Frankie Laine
- "Gambella (The Gamblin' Lady)" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
- "The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart" – Frankie Laine
- "Get Happy" – Frankie Laine
- "Get Out Those Old Records" – Guy Lombardo (The Lombardo Trio vocals)
- "The Girl In The Wood" – Frankie Laine
- "Give Me Time" – Johnnie Ray
- "Gone Fishin'" – Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
- "Got Him Off My Hands" – Georgia Gibbs
- "Hello, Young Lovers" – Perry Como
- "Hello, Young Lovers" – Guy Lombardo (Kenny Martin vocals)
- "Hey, Good Lookin'" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
- "The Hot Canary" – Florian Zabach
- "How High The Moon" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
- "I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat" – Mel Blanc
- "If" – Perry Como
- "It Is No Secret" – Bill Kenny & The Song Spinners
- "It's All In the Game" – Tommy Edwards
- "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" – Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters
- "Jealousy (Jalousie)" – Frankie Laine
- "Jezebel" – Frankie Laine
- "The Little White Cloud That Cried" – Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
- "The Loveliest Night Of The Year" – Mario Lanza
- "Lullaby Of Broadway" – Doris Day
- "Mister And Mississippi" – Patti Page
- "Mockin' Bird Hill" – Patti Page
- "My Heart Cries For You" – Dinah Shore
- "My Truly, Truly Fair" – Guy Mitchell
- "On Top Of Old Smoky" – The Weavers with Terry Gilkyson
- "Once Upon A Nickel" – Georgia Gibbs
- "One For My Baby" – Frankie Laine
- "Paths Of Paradise" – Johnnie Ray
- "Pretty-Eyed Baby" – Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine
- "Red Sails In The Sunset" – Nat King Cole
- "Rose, Rose I Love You" – Frankie Laine
- "Shanghai" – Doris Day
- "Sin" – Eddie Howard & his Orchestra
- "Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)" – Vaughn Monroe
- "The Sparrow In The Treetop" – Guy Mitchell
- "A Sunday Kind Of Love" – Jo Stafford
- "Sweet Violets" – Dinah Shore
- "The Syncopated Clock" – Leroy Anderson & his Orchestra
- "Tell Me" – Doris Day
- "Tell Me Why" – The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
- "Tell The Lady I Said Goodbye" – Johnnie Ray
- "Tom's Tune" – Georgia Gibbs
- "Too Young" – Nat King Cole
- "Undecided" – The Ames Brothers
- "When It's Sleep Time Down South" – Frankie Laine
- "While You Danced, Danced, Danced" – Georgia Gibbs
- "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" – Les Paul and Mary Ford

## New Books

- _The Balance Wheel_ – Taylor Caldwell
- _The Blessing_ – Nancy Mitford
- _Boy at the Window_ – Owen Dodson
- _The Caine Mutiny_   –  Herman Wouk
- _The Catcher in the Rye_ – J.D. Salinger
- _The Cruel Sea_  –  Nicholas Monsarrat
- _The Daughter of Time_ – Josephine Tey
- _The Day of the Triffids_ – John Wyndham
- _Foundation_  –  Isaac Asimov
- _The Foundling_ –  Cardinal Spellman
- _From Here to Eternity_   –  James Jones
- _Galactic Storm_ – Gill Hunt
- _Lie Down In Darkness_ – William Styron
- _Log from the Sea of Cortez_ – John Steinbeck
- _The Loved and the Lost_ – Morley Callaghan
- _Mémoires d'Hadrien_ – Marguerite Yourcenar
- _Moses_ –  Sholem Asch
- _My Cousin Rachel_  –  Daphne du Maurier
- _Prince Caspian_ – C. S. Lewis
- _A Question of Upbringing_ – Anthony Powell
- _Return to Paradise_  –  James A. Michener
- _Spartacus_ – Howard Fast
- _Tempest-Tost_ – Robertson Davies
- _The Wanderer_ – Mika Waltari
- _A Woman Called Fancy_ –  Frank Yerby