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
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## 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
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## 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

## References