In the year 1951, the comic strip Dennis the Menace appears in the U.S. newspapers for the first time (Mar 12), The King and I premiers on Broadway (Mar 29), the George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first U.S. national monument to honor an African American (Jul 14), the first Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the plant in South Africa (Aug 31), the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty is signed, allowing American troops to be stationed in Japan (Sep 8), I Love Lucy debuts on CBS (Oct 15), the Marshall Plan expires (Dec 31), several sci-fi films premier, the Korean War goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1951-0101 Ashfaq Hussain* Urdu poet/author - Karachi, Pakistan 1951-0101 Nana Patekar* actor/ screenwriter/film maker - Murud-Janjira, Bombay State, India 1951-0103 Charles W. Mills* British-American philosopher - London, England (2021/70) 1951-0105 Steve Arnold* football player - Willesden, London, England 1951-0106 Kim Wilson* blues singer/harmonica player - Detroit, MI USA 1951-0107 1951-0109 Michel Barnier* politician/PM - La Tronche, France 1951-0109 Toke Talagi* politician/diplomat/statesman - Alofi, Niue (2020/69) 1951-0110 Nicolas Philibert* actor/ film director - Nancy, France 1951-0112 Kirstie Alley* actress/ comedian - Wichita, KS USA (2022/71) 1951-0112 Chris Bell*  musician - Memphis, TN USA (1978/27) 1951-0112 Rush Limbaugh* radio personality/political commentator/ television show host - Cape Girardeau, MO USA (2021/70) 1951-0112 Ingvar Storm* radio personality/television host - Sigtuna, Sweden 1951-0118 Elijah Cummings* politician/ civil rights advocate - Baltimore, MD USA (2019/68) 1951-0120 1951-0122 Alveda King* activist/ author/niece of Martin Luther King Jr. - Atlanta, GA USA 1951-0123 Chesley Sullenberger* airline captain (Sully: Miracle on the Hudson)/aviation safety speaker - Denison, TX USA 1951-0125 Steve “Pre” Prefontaine* athlete (long-distance runner)- Coos Bay, OR USA (1975/24) 1951-0130 Phil Collins* drummer/ singer-songwriter/record producer - Chiswick, London, England 1951-0130 Charles S. Dutton* actor/director - Baltimore, MD USA 1951-0131 Eija Ahvo* actress/singer - Kuopio, Savo, Finland 1951-0131 Cristine Rose* actress - Lynwood, CA USA 1951-0201 1951-0206 Kevin Whately* actor - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 1951-0210 1951-0211 Aleksandr Makarov* athlete (javelin/OS) - Kasimov, Russia, Soviet Union 1951-0214 Janice Ott* (b Blackburn) homicide victim - USA (1974/23) 1951-0215 Markku Alén* rally driver - Helsinki, Finland 1951-0215 Jane Seymour* (b Joyce Frankenberg) British-American actress - Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 1951-0217 1951-0220 Edward Albert* actor/ son of Eddie Albert - Los Angeles, CA USA (2006/55) 1951-0220 Eva Rueber-Staier* Miss World 1969/actress/sculptor - Bruck an der Mur, Austria 1951-0220 Pertti Teurajärvi* cross-country skier/OG - Kolari, Lapland, Finland 1951-0223 Leevi Lehto* poet/ translator/programmer - Helsinki, Finland 1951-0225 Bob Crowley* teacher/ Survivor S17 Contestant - South Portland, ME USA 1951-0228 1951-0301 1951-0306 Wolfgang Hanisch* athlete (javelin/OB) - Großkorbetha, East Germany 1051-0309 Zakir Hussain* tabla player/composer/actor - Bombay, India (2024/73) 1951-0313 Hannu Kapanen* hockey player/coach - Kontiolahti, Finland 1951-0315 Steve Schubert* Am. football player/w a Finnish grandmother - USA 1951-0317 Kurt Russell* actor - Springfield, MA USA 1951-0320 1951-0322 Ola Hassis* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Sweden 1951-0324 Tommy Hilfiger* fashion designer/ entrepreneur - Elmira, NY USA 1951-0327 Andrei Kozyrev* Russian diplomat/politician - Brussels, Belgium 1951-0328 Matti Pellonpää* actor - Helsinki, Finland (1995/44) 1951-0331 1951-0401 1951-0405 Dean Kamen* engineer/inventor (Segway)/ businessman - Rockville Centre, NY USA 1951-0410 Mark Roth* bowler - Brooklyn, NY USA 1951-0414 Greg Winter* biochemist/N - Leicester, England 1951-0415 1951-0417 Olivia Hussey* (b Osuna) British actress/to England at age 7 - Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024/73) 1951-0417 Börje Salming* hockey player (NHL 100)/entrepreneur - Kiruna, Sweden (2022/71) NHL 1951-0421 Tony Danza* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1951-0501 Mikko Alatalo* singer - Kuivaniemi, Finland 1951-0504 Jackie Jackson* singer/songwriter/the oldest Jackson brother - Gary, IN USA 1951-0504 David Leckie* media tycoon/network television executive - Sydney, NSW Australia (2021/70) 1951-0505 Marion Bailey* actress - Watford, Hertfordshire, England 1951-0517 Azimzhan Askarov* political activist - Bazar-Korgon, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union (2020/69) 1951-0518 Pertti Virtanen* artist/politician - Hämeenlinna, Finland 1951-0519 Victoria Chaplin* circus performer/daughter of Charlie Chaplin - Santa Monica, CA USA 1951-0519 Katalin Rényi* painter/ graphic designer - Budapest, Hungary (2023/72) 1951-0520 1951-0523 Anatoly Karpov* chess grandmaster/World Champion - Zlatoust, Russia, Soviet Union 1951-0526 Sally Ride* astronaut - Encino, CA USA (2012/61) 1951-0529 Michael O’Neill* actor - Montgomery, AL USA 1951-0602 Larry Robinson* hockey player (NHL 100)/10SC/coach/executive - Winchester, ON Canada 1951-0603 Jill Biden* (b Jacobs) teacher/First Lady - Hammonton, NJ USA 1951-0603 Satu Hassi* politician - Helsinki, Finland 1951-0607 Pirkko Helenius* athlete (long jump/EB) - Helsinki, Finland 1951-0608 Bonnie Tyler* singer - Skewen, Neath, Wales 1951-0609 Bruce Duffy* author - Washington D.C. USA (2022/70) 1951-0609 James Newton Howard* composer/ music producer - Los Angeles, CA USA 1951-0610 Yoel Sela* Olympic competitive sailor - Hadera, Israel 1951-0613 Stellan Skarsgård* actor - Gothenburg, Sweden 1951-0613 Richard Thomas* actor (The Waltons) - Manhattan, NY USA 1951-0615 Àlvaro Colom* engineer/ businessman/politician/P - Guatemala City, Guatemala (2023/71) 1951-0617 Ed Hula* journalist/entrepreneur - Tarrytown, NY USA 1951-0617 Joe Piscopo* actor/radio talk show host - Passaic, NJ USA 1951-0619 Ayman al-Zawahiri* surgeon/a leader of Al-Qaeda - Giza, Kingdom of Egypt (2022/71) 1951-0620 Esko Valtaoja* astronomer/ writer/skeptic - Kemi, Finland 1951-0621 Anneli Taina* politician - Imatra, Finland 1951-0623 Sergei Skripal* intelligence officer - Kaliningrad, Russia, Soviet Union 1951-0625 Rauno Korpi* hockey coach - Tampere, Finland 1951-0626 Robert Davi* actor/singer/entertainer - Queens, NY USA 1951-0630 1951-0701 1951-0702 Anne Garrels* broadcast journalist  - Springfield, MA USA (2022/71) 1951-0702 Sylvia Rivera* LGBT rights activist - New York City, NY USA (2002/50) 1951-0703 Tabish Mehdi* poet - Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India (2025/73) 1951-0704 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend* attorney - Greenwich, CT USA 1951-0706 Geoffrey Rush* actor - Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 1951-0708 Anjelica Huston* actress - Santa Monica, CA USA 1951-0709 Chris Cooper* actor - Kansas City, MO USA 1951-0710 Phyllis Smith* actress (The Office) - St. Louis, MO USA 1951-0712 Cheryl Ladd* (b Stoppelmoor) actress - Huron, SD USA 1951-0712 Jamey Sheridan* actor - Pasadena, CA USA 1951-0715 1951-0718 Margo Martindale* actress - Jacksonville, TX USA 1951-0718 Mimi Sarkisian* actress (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - San Francisco, CA USA 1951-0719 Abel Ferrara* filmmaker - The Bronx, NY USA 1951-0721 Robin Williams* stand-up comedian/actor - Chicago, IL USA (2014/63) 1951-0725 Yury Kovalchuk* billionaire businessman/financier/reputed to be Vladimir Putin’s personal banker - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union 1951-0728 Santiago Calatrava* architect - Valencia, Spain 1951-0731 Barry Van Dyke* actor/son of Dick Van Dyke - Atlanta, GA USA 1951-0801 Fauna Hodel* author/motivational speaker - San Francisco, CA USA (2017/66) 1951-0803 Marcel Dionne* hockey player (NHL 100)/entrepreneur - Drummondville, QC Canada 1951-0805 Louis van Gaal* football player/manager - Amsterdam, Netherlands 1951-0808 Mohamed Morsi* politician/P - El Adwah, Kingdom of Egypt (2019/67) 1951-0814 Slim Dunlap* rock musician/singer-songwriter - Plainview, MN USA (2024/73) 1951-0820 1951-0823 Queen Noor of Jordan (b Lisa Halaby) - Washington, D.C. USA 1951-0824 Tony Amendola* actor - New Haven, CT USA 1951-0824 Bill C. Davis* playwright/actor - Ellenville, NY USA (2021/69) 1951-0828 Wayne Osmond* singer/guitarist (The Osmonds) - Ogden, UT USA (2025/73) 1951-0830 Timothy Bottoms* actor/producer - Santa Barbara, CA USA 1951-0831 1951-0901 1951-0902 Osmo Soininvaara* politician - Helsinki, Finland 1951-0904 Kaoru Kobayashi* 小林 薫 actor - Kyoto, Japan 1951-0905 Michael Keaton* actor - Coraopolis, PA USA 1951-0907 Chrissie Hynde* singer/musician - Akron, OH USA 1951-0909 Jerry Doucette* guitarist/ singer-songwriter - Montreal,  QC Canada (2022/70) 1951-0910 1951-0912 Joe Pantoliano* actor - Hoboken, NJ USA 1951-0913 Jean Smart* actress - Seattle, WA USA 1951-0915 Fred Seibert* television and film producer - Manhattan, NY USA 1951-0920 Caryn Campbell* registered nurse/homicide victim - Garden City, MI USA (1975/23) 1951-0920 Guy Lafleur* hockey player (NHL 100) - Thurso, QC Canada (2022/70) 1951-0920 Javier Marías* columnist/ translator/author - Madrid, Spain (2022/70) 1951-0921 1951-0923 Tommy Hellsten* theologist/therapist/ author - Loviisa, Finland 1951-0923 P. R. Krishna Kumar* pioneering ayurvedic physician - Shoranur, Kerala, India (2020/68) 1951-0924 Raimo Nikula* astrologer - Finland 1951-0925 Mark Hamill* actor (Luke Skywalker) - Concord, CA USA 1951-0929 Jutta Ditfurth* sociologist/writer/radical ecologist politician - Würzburg, West Germany 1951-0930 Catie Ball* swimmer/OG - Jacksonville, FL USA 1951-1002 Gordon “Sting” Sumner* singer - Wallsend, Northumberland, England 1951-1002 Gene Weingarten* humor columnist at The Washington Post - New York City, NY USA 1951-1005 Karen Allen* actress - Carrollton, IL USA 1951-1007 Barbara Brenner* health activist - Baltimore, MD USA (2013/61) 1951-1008 Maki Kaji* 鍜治 真起 puzzle manufacturer/“the father of Sudoku” - Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (2021/69) 1951-1018 Pam Dawber* actress - Detroit, MI USA 1951-1020 1951-1022 Anitta Niemi* actress - Tampere, Finland 1951-1026 Karlheinz Knebel* Roman-Catholic priest - Füssen, West Germany (2017/66) 1951-1028 Joe R. Landsdale* writer/martial arts expert - Gladewater, TX USA 1951-1030 Harry Hamlin* actor - Pasadena, CA USA 1951-1106 Nigel Havers* actor/presenter/raconteur - Edmonton, Middlesex, England 1951-1106 Brenda Kamino* actress/director/painter - Toronto, ON Canada 1951-1109 Lou Ferrigno* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1951-1111 Kim Peek* savant/“The original Rain Man” - Salt Lake City, UT USA 1951-1115 Beverly D' Angelo* actress - Upper Arlington, OH USA 1951-1117 Jack Vettriano* painter - Methil, Fife, Scotland (2025/73) 1951-1120 1951-1123 David Rappaport* actor/w achondroplasia - London, England (1990/38) 1951-1130 1951-1201 Obba Babatundé* (b Donald Cohen) actor/voice actor - Queens, NYC, NY USA 1951-1201 Treat Williams* actor/ writer/aviator - Rowayton, CT USA (2023/71) 1951-1204 Gary Rossington* musician/ songwriter - Jacksonville, FL USA (2023/71) 1951-1204 Patricia Wettig* actress - Milford, OH USA 1951-1205 Morgan Brittany* actress - Hollywood, CA USA 1951-1210 1951-1216 David Schofield* actor - Wythenshawe, Manchester, England 1951-1217 Ken Hitchcock* hockey scout/coach - Edmonton, AB Canada 1951-1218 1951-1220 Matti Pitkänen* cross-country skier/OG - Ikaalinen, Finland 1951-1231 1951-0 1951-0 1951-0 Updated 2025-0304 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here