1951

Rulers:

• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953)

Events:

• Museum Oskar Reinhart established in Winterthur.

Paysage, Bords de Seine (c.1879) by Renoir, is stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art.

• William Faulkner (1897-1962): National Book Award (1951, 1955).

Births:

Gavasa, Luisa (1951)

• Hamlin, Harry (1951)

• Havers, Nigel (1951)

• Hussey, Olivia (1951)

Leroux, Maxime (1951-2010)

Luchini, Fabrice (1951)

• McTiernan, John (1951)

• Rush, Geoffrey (1951)

• Sanda, Dominique (1951)

• Seymour, Jane (1951)

Skarsgård, Stellan (1951)

• Ward, Lalla (1951)

Williams, Robin (1951-2014)

Deaths:

Barnes, Albert C. (1872-1951)

Walker, Robert (1918-1951)

Music:

• North, Alex (1910-1991): A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

• Rózsa, Miklós (1907-1995): Quo Vadis (1951)

Art:

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Composizione metafisica (1950-60)

• Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968): Objet-Dard (1951)

• Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954): Cocos gimientes (1951)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955): La mère et l’enfant (1951)

• Léger, Fernand (1881-1955): Le cycliste (1951)

Magritte, René (1898-1967): La boîte de Pandore (1951)

Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956): Brown and Silver I (1951)

Film:

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Bellisima (1951)

• Quo Vadis (1951)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

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