Historical figures in 1951
The atlas holds 72 people and 94 moments here, in 1951. The most recorded lives are Olivia de Havilland, Pope Benedict XVI and Pablo Neruda. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Helen Keller
in 1951
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Huang Xianfan
in 1951
1 moment here
Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…
Idi Amin
in 1951
1 moment here
Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…
Igor Stravinsky
in 1951
1 moment here
Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…
Isaac Asimov
in 1951
1 moment here
American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
Italo Calvino
in 1951
1 moment here
Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Jean-Paul Sartre
in 1951
1 moment here
French philosopher, writer, and political activist associated with existentialism. His documented movements include education and teaching across…
Joan Fontaine
in 1951
1 moment here
British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…
John Cornforth
in 1951
1 moment here
Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…
John F. Kennedy
in 1951
2 moments here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John McCain
in 1951
1 moment here
John Sidney McCain III was an American naval aviator, Vietnam War prisoner of war, U.S. representative, U.S.…
Jorge Amado
in 1951
2 moments here
Brazilian modernist writer, journalist, and Communist politician whose life moved between Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, South America, Europe,…
Juan Manuel Fangio
in 1951
3 moments here
Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio was a five-time Formula One World Drivers’ Champion.…
Judy Garland
in 1951
3 moments here
American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Julius Nyerere
in 1951
1 moment here
Tanzanian anti-colonial leader, political theorist, and founding president of Tanzania. Nyerere led the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU),…
Katharine Hepburn
in 1951
1 moment here
American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1951
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1951
1 moment here
South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1951
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lars Onsager
in 1951
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Le Corbusier
in 1951
1 moment here
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1951
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1951
1 moment here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1951
2 moments here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Moments
- 1951 Cleopatra repertory at St James's Theatre Vivien Leigh
- 1951 Cleopatra repertory on Broadway Vivien Leigh
- 1951 Family visit at Schiphol Airport Walt Disney
- 1951 Industrial Technical School studies Yuri Gagarin
- 1951 Prison candidacy for Accra Kwame Nkrumah
- 1951 Chandigarh planning site Le Corbusier
- 1951 La P'tite Lili opening at the ABC Édith Piaf
- 1951 Broadway opening as Juliet Olivia de Havilland
- 1951 Stalin Prize jury meetings in Moscow Pablo Neruda
- 1951 London Palladium comeback Judy Garland
- 1951 Death at Storey's End Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1951 Birth in Buenos Aires Olivia Hussey
- 1951 May Day address at São Januário Getúlio Vargas
- 1951 Eye Hospital opening address Helen Keller
- 1951 Residence in Waltham Isaac Asimov
- 1951 Graduates from Crozer Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1951 Engagement at Sunningdale Golf Club Glynis Johns
- 1951 Central Ethnic Visiting Delegation fieldwork Huang Xianfan
- 1951 Letter written in Prague Jorge Amado
- 1951 Candida opens in Westport Olivia de Havilland
- 1951 Priestly ordination Pope Benedict XVI
- 1951 Theatre Royal engagement Judy Garland
- 1951 Birth at St. Luke's Hospital Robin Williams
- 1951 Birth in Karaganda Akhmad Kadyrov
- 1951 Cabildo Abierto address Eva Perón
- 1951 Birth in El Adwah Mohamed Morsi
- 1951 Meeting with Matilde Urrutia in Berlin Pablo Neruda
- 1951 UMNO Assembly leadership election Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1951 Birth in Katsina Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
- 1951 Birth in Shakai Aslan Maskhadov
- 1951 Begins Boston University studies Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1951 Attends Venice's Ball of the Century Salvador Dalí
- 1951 Marriage in Karachi Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1951 Visited President Truman Elizabeth II
- 1951 Visited French Indochina John F. Kennedy
- 1951 Palace Theatre opening Judy Garland
- 1951 Candida opens in St. Louis Olivia de Havilland
- 1951 Broadway opening of Gigi Audrey Hepburn
- 1951 Hospitalization and first vote Eva Perón
- 1951 Candida run at the Geary Theatre Olivia de Havilland
- 1951 Pragola Brigade command at Salatiga Suharto
- 1951 Meeting Arnold Murray on Oxford Road Alan Turing
- 1951 Nobel lecture in Stockholm Max Theiler
- 1951 Operation Merdeka Timur V in Klaten Suharto