1951  

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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.

Events

• 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning

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

• Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
• Ned Sublette, American musician
• Enki Bilal
• Arthur Russell

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 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
• May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
• July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
• 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)