1951 deaths

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

French military and political leader (1856–1951)

Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)

Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

German physicist (1868-1951)

vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929

Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951

Korean-American independence activist and journalist (1864–1951)

Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)

1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951

German biochemist (1884-1951)

American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)

French metaphysician (1886-1951)

American actor (1889–1951)

Iranian writer

Russian author (1899–1951)

Soviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)

French philosopher (1868–1951)

Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45

Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)

French mathematician (1869–1951)

Soviet physicist

Austrian writer (1886-1951)

Japanese politician (1872-1951)

American documentary filmmaker (1884-1951)

British labour leader, politician, and statesman (1881-1951)

French actor (1887-1951)

German politician (1865-1951)

American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (1920–1951)

Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)

Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)

Swedish prince (1861-1951); third son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau

11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)

Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)

English short story writer and novelist (1869–1951)

American astronomer (1864–1951)

German automobile engineer (1868–1951)

Austrian pianist (1882-1951)

American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)

Queen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)

American explorer (1880–1951)

Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)

Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)

Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951)

Dutch conductor (1871-1951)

German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)

Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)

South African doctor and paleontologist (1866–1951)

American actor (1918-1951)

Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist (1874–1951)

Polish writer and journalist (1922-1951)

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator, convicted war criminal (1894–1951)

Princess of France

Welsh composer and actor (1893–1951)

Russian composer and pianist (1879–1951)

German author (1879-1951)

Catholic cardinal (1867–1951)