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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louis Adamic
Author
23-Mar-1899 4-Sep-1951 Laughing in the Jungle
Joan Vollmer Adams
Victim
1924 6-Sep-1951 Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
R. H. Barlow
Author
18-May-1918 2-Jan-1951 Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft
Albert C. Barnes
Curator
2-Jan-1872 24-Jul-1951 Barnes Foundation
Warner Baxter
Actor
29-Mar-1889 7-May-1951 In Old Arizona
Jules Berry
Actor
9-Feb-1883 23-Apr-1951 Le Jour se lève
Ernest Bevin
Politician
9-Mar-1881 14-Apr-1951 UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51
Edwin G. Booz
Business
2-Sep-1887 1-Oct-1951 Founder of Booz Allen Hamilton
Tadeusz Borowski
Author
12-Nov-1922 1-Jul-1951 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Fanny Brice
Singer
29-Oct-1891 29-May-1951 The Baby Snooks Show
J. Edward Bromberg
Actor
25-Dec-1903 6-Dec-1951 The Mark of Zorro
Lane Bryant
Fashion Designer
1-Dec-1879 26-Sep-1951 Plus-size designer
Gelett Burgess
Cartoonist
30-Jan-1866 17-Sep-1951 Has never seen a purple cow
Fritz Busch
Conductor
13-Mar-1890 14-Sep-1951 Conductor, Danish National Symphony, 1934-51
António Óscar Carmona
Head of State
24-Nov-1869 18-Apr-1951 President of Portugal, 1926-51
Élie Cartan
Mathematician
9-Apr-1869 6-May-1951 Spinor groups
Big Sid Catlett
Jazz Musician
10-Jan-1910 25-Mar-1951 Jazz/swing drummer
Ben Chifley
Head of State
22-Sep-1885 13-Jun-1951 Prime Minister of Australia, 1945-49
Eddie Collins
Baseball
2-May-1887 25-Mar-1951 Second baseman, 1914 MVP
Charles G. Dawes
Politician
27-Aug-1865 23-Apr-1951 US Vice President, 1925-29
Leo Diegel
Golf
27-Apr-1899 8-May-1951 Winner, 1928 and 1929 PGA Championships
Eddy Duchin
Pianist
1-Apr-1909 9-Feb-1951 The Magic Fingers of Radio
Stephen T. Early
Government
27-Aug-1889 11-Aug-1951 Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary
Robert J. Flaherty
Film Director
16-Feb-1884 23-Jul-1951 Nanook of the North
Ralph Forbes
Actor
30-Sep-1896 31-Mar-1951 The Hound of the Baskervilles
André Gide
Author
22-Nov-1869 19-Feb-1951 Le Voyage d'Urien
Morley Griswold
Politician
10-Oct-1890 3-Oct-1951 Governor of Nevada, 1934-35
William Randolph Hearst
Business
29-Apr-1863 14-Aug-1951 Newspaper magnate
Sadeq Hedayat
Author
17-Feb-1903 9-Apr-1951 The Blind Owl
Jack Holt
Actor
31-May-1888 18-Jan-1951 They Were Expendable
August Horch
Engineer
12-Oct-1868 3-Feb-1951 Founder of Audi
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Baseball
16-Jul-1889 5-Dec-1951 Say it ain't so, Joe
Louis Jouvet
Actor
24-Dec-1887 16-Aug-1951 The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux
Will Keith Kellogg
Business
7-Apr-1860 6-Oct-1951 Corn flakes and Rice Krispies
Serge Koussevitzky
Conductor
26-Jul-1874 4-Jun-1951 Music Director, Boston Symphony, 1924-49
Henrietta Lacks
Oddity
1-Aug-1920 4-Oct-1951 Immortal human cells
Constant Lambert
Composer
23-Aug-1905 21-Aug-1951 Rio Grande
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
7-Feb-1885 10-Jan-1951 Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry
Maxim Litvinov
Government
17-Jul-1876 31-Dec-1951 Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler
Walter J. Maddock
Politician
13-Sep-1880 25-Jan-1951 Governor of North Dakota, 1928-29
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Politician
4-Jun-1867 28-Jan-1951 President of Finland, 1944-46
Edwin L. Marin
Film Director
21-Feb-1899 2-May-1951 Tall in the Saddle
Willem Mengelberg
Conductor
28-Mar-1871 21-Mar-1951 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945
Otto Meyerhof
Scientist
12-Apr-1884 6-Oct-1951 Glycogen-lactic acid cycle
Oscar Micheaux
Film/TV Producer
2-Jan-1884 25-Mar-1951 Within Our Gates
Maria Montez
Actor
6-Jun-1912 7-Sep-1951 The Exile
Ivor Novello
Composer
15-Jan-1893 6-Mar-1951 Keep the Home Fires Burning
Vladimir Peniakoff
Military
30-Mar-1897 May-1951 Head of Popski's Private Army
Philippe Pétain
Head of State
24-Apr-1856 23-Jul-1951 Leader of Vichy France
Ferdinand Porsche
Engineer
3-Sep-1875 30-Jan-1951 Designer of the Volkswagen Beetle
Stanley Ridges
Actor
17-Jul-1890 22-Apr-1951 Black Friday
Charles R. Robertson
Politician
5-Sep-1889 19-Feb-1951 Congressman from North Dakota, 1940s
Sigmund Romberg
Composer
29-Jul-1887 9-Nov-1951 The New Moon
Phil Rosen
Film Director
8-May-1888 22-Oct-1951 Spooks Run Wild
Harold W. Ross
Publisher
6-Nov-1892 6-Dec-1951 Founder of The New Yorker
Pedro Salinas
Poet
27-Nov-1891 4-Dec-1951 Generation of '27
Artur Schnabel
Pianist
17-Apr-1882 15-Aug-1951 Pianist and classical composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Composer
13-Sep-1874 13-Jul-1951 Emancipated dissonance
Arnold Sommerfeld
Physicist
5-Dec-1868 26-Apr-1951 Fine-structure constant
Egbert Van Alstyne
Songwriter
4-Mar-1882 9-Jul-1951 In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Arthur Vandenberg
Politician
22-Mar-1884 18-Apr-1951 US Senator from Michigan, 1928-51
William A. Vinson
Judge
22-Dec-1874 26-Oct-1951 Vinson & Elkins
Robert Walker
Actor
13-Oct-1918 28-Aug-1951 Strangers on a Train
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
26-Apr-1889 29-Apr-1951 Destroyed metaphysics


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