page_title: 1951
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1951 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Amy Carmichael with children
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: January 2 – Richard Hart, American actor (b. 1915)
  January 3 – Georgios Drossinis, Greek author, poet, scholar and editor (b. 1859)
  January 5
  Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist and theorist (b. 1887)
  Ken Le Breton, Australian speedway rider (b. 1925)
  January 6 – Maila Talvio, Finnish writer, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1871)
  January 7
  René Guénon, French metaphysician (b. 1886)
  Lucien Cuénot, French biologist (b. 1866)
  January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
  January 12
  Jacques de Baroncelli, French director and screenwriter (b. 1881)
  Albert Guay, Canadian murderer (executed) (b. 1917)
  Prince Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1870)
  January 13
  Florence Kahn, American actress (b. 1878)
  Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1871)
  Dorothea Bate,  British palaeontologist, a pioneer of archaeozoology (b. 1878)
  January 16 – Tsunejirō Ishii, Japanese admiral (b. 1887)
  January 17 – Franziskus Hennemann, South African Titular bishop and reverend (b. 1882)
  January 18
  Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India (b. 1867)
  Jack Holt, American actor (b. 1888)
  January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
  January 23 – Robert J. Blackham, British general and author (b. 1868)
  January 27 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish military leader and statesman, 6th President of Finland (b. 1867)
  January 28
  Dominic Salvatore Gentile, American pilot (b. 1920)
  Petar Dujam Munzani, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend (b. 1890)
  January 29 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
  January 30 – Ferdinand Porsche, German auto engineer (b. 1875)
caption: Amy Carmichael
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