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1951 was the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade.
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Events
Art and culture
- Grove Press launched
- Physique Pictorial launched
- In the United Kingdom, the X certificate was created by the British Board of Film Censors
- Cahiers du Cinéma, French film magazine, founded
Literature
Fiction
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Bestiario by Julio Cortázar
- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Siddhartha by Hesse, first English translation
Non-fiction
- The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan
- Patterns of Sexual Behavior by Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach
- Man into Wolf by Robert Eisler
Music
- Studio für elektronische Musik founded
- Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète launched
- The term rock and roll was popularized by Alan Freed
- Music of Changes by John Cage
Singles
- "Jezebel" by Frankie Laine
- "Quiet Village" by Les Baxter
Albums
- Ritual of the Savage by Les Baxter
Cinema
- Under the Sky of Paris by Julien Duvivier
- The Thing from Another World by Christian Nyby
Guilty pleasures
- Era lui... sì! sì! by Marino Girolami, Marcello Marchesi and Vittorio Metz
- The Sinner by Willi Forst
Design
- General Motors Le Sabre by Harley Earl
Art
- Black Eyes and Lemonade was an exhibition curated by Barbara Jones held at the Whitechapel Gallery
- In Voluptas Mors by Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman
Births
- May 21 - Arthur Russell, American cellist, composer, and singer (d. 1992)
- Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
- Ned Sublette, American musician
- Enki Bilal
Deaths
- January 7 - René Guénon, French metaphysician (b. 1886)
- January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- March 6 - Ivor Novello, British actor, musician and composer (b. 1893)
- March 14 – Val Lewton, American producer and screenwriter (b. 1904)
- April 12 - Henry de Vere Stacpoole, Irish author (b. 1863)
- April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
- May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
- July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
- June 2 - Émile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (b. 1868)
- August 14 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863)
- August 24 - Henri Rivière, French painter (b. 1864)
- September 1 - Louis Lavelle, French philosopher (b. 1883)
- September 1 - Wols, German painter and photographer (b. 1913)
- September 3 - Serge Voronoff, Russian-born French surgeon (b. 1866)
- September 7 - John French Sloan, American artist (b. 1871)
- December 10 – Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)
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