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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
André Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright (1885–1951)
Philippe Pétain
French military and political leader (1856–1951)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
Charles G. Dawes
vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
Abdullah I of Jordan
Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
Soh Jaipil
Korean-American independence activist and journalist (1864–1951)
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
Liaquat Ali Khan
1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
René Guénon
French metaphysician (1886-1951)
Warner Baxter
American actor (1889–1951)
Sadegh Hedayat
Iranian writer
Andrei Platonov
Russian author (1899–1951)
Maxim Litvinov
Soviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)
Alain
French philosopher (1868–1951)
Ivanoe Bonomi
Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)
Élie Cartan
French mathematician (1869–1951)
Sergey Vavilov
Soviet physicist
Hermann Broch
Austrian writer (1886-1951)
Kijūrō Shidehara
Japanese politician (1872-1951)
Robert J. Flaherty
American documentary filmmaker (1884-1951)
Ernest Bevin
British labour leader, politician, and statesman (1881-1951)
Louis Jouvet
French actor (1887-1951)
Alfred Hugenberg
German politician (1865-1951)
Henrietta Lacks
American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (1920–1951)
Harald Bohr
Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
Ben Chifley
Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)
Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
Swedish prince (1861-1951); third son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau
Óscar Carmona
11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)
Algernon Blackwood
English short story writer and novelist (1869–1951)
Robert Grant Aitken
American astronomer (1864–1951)
August Horch
German automobile engineer (1868–1951)
Artur Schnabel
Austrian pianist (1882-1951)
Fanny Brice
American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
Amélie of Orléans
Queen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
Lincoln Ellsworth
American explorer (1880–1951)
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)
Abanindranath Tagore
Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)
Otto Ohlendorf
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)
Paula von Preradović
Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951)
Willem Mengelberg
Dutch conductor (1871-1951)
Oswald Pohl
German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
Agrippina Vaganova
Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)
Robert Broom
South African doctor and paleontologist (1866–1951)
Robert Walker
American actor (1918-1951)
Serge Koussevitzky
Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist (1874–1951)
Tadeusz Borowski
Polish writer and journalist (1922-1951)
Paul Blobel
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator, convicted war criminal (1894–1951)
Princess Hélène of Orléans
Princess of France
Ivor Novello
Welsh composer and actor (1893–1951)
Nikolai Medtner
Russian composer and pianist (1879–1951)
Bernhard Kellermann
German author (1879-1951)
Adam Stefan Sapieha
Catholic cardinal (1867–1951)