LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Adamic	Author	23-Mar-1899	4-Sep-1951	Laughing in the Jungle
Joan Vollmer Adams	Victim	1924	6-Sep-1951	Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
R. H. Barlow	Author	18-May-1918	2-Jan-1951	Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft
Warner Baxter	Actor	29-Mar-1889	7-May-1951	In Old Arizona
Jules Berry	Actor	9-Feb-1883	23-Apr-1951	Le Jour se lève
Ernest Bevin	Politician	9-Mar-1881	14-Apr-1951	UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51
Tadeusz Borowski	Author	12-Nov-1922	1-Jul-1951	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Fanny Brice	Singer	29-Oct-1891	29-May-1951	The Baby Snooks Show
Lane Bryant	Fashion Designer	1-Dec-1879	26-Sep-1951	Plus-size designer
Gelett Burgess	Cartoonist	30-Jan-1866	17-Sep-1951	Has never seen a purple cow
António Óscar Carmona	Head of State	24-Nov-1869	18-Apr-1951	President of Portugal, 1926-51
Ben Chifley	Head of State	22-Sep-1885	13-Jun-1951	Prime Minister of Australia, 1945-49
Eddie Collins	Baseball	2-May-1887	25-Mar-1951	Second baseman, 1914 MVP
Charles G. Dawes	Politician	27-Aug-1865	23-Apr-1951	US Vice President, 1925-29
Leo Diegel	Golf	27-Apr-1899	8-May-1951	Winner, 1928 and 1929 PGA Championships
Stephen T. Early	Government	27-Aug-1889	11-Aug-1951	Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary
Robert J. Flaherty	Film Director	16-Feb-1884	23-Jul-1951	Nanook of the North
Ralph Forbes	Actor	30-Sep-1896	31-Mar-1951	The Hound of the Baskervilles
André Gide	Author	22-Nov-1869	19-Feb-1951	Le Voyage d'Urien
William Randolph Hearst	Business	29-Apr-1863	14-Aug-1951	Newspaper magnate
Sadeq Hedayat	Author	17-Feb-1903	9-Apr-1951	The Blind Owl
Jack Holt	Actor	31-May-1888	18-Jan-1951	They Were Expendable
August Horch	Engineer	12-Oct-1868	3-Feb-1951	Founder of Audi
Shoeless Joe Jackson	Baseball	16-Jul-1889	5-Dec-1951	Say it ain't so, Joe
Louis Jouvet	Actor	24-Dec-1887	16-Aug-1951	The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux
Will Keith Kellogg	Business	7-Apr-1860	6-Oct-1951	Corn flakes and Rice Krispies
Sinclair Lewis	Novelist	7-Feb-1885	10-Jan-1951	Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry
Maxim Litvinov	Government	17-Jul-1876	31-Dec-1951	Soviet foreign minister ousted in nod to Hitler
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	Politician	4-Jun-1867	28-Jan-1951	President of Finland, 1944-46
Edwin L. Marin	Film Director	21-Feb-1899	2-May-1951	Tall in the Saddle
Otto Meyerhof	Scientist	12-Apr-1884	6-Oct-1951	Glycogen-lactic acid cycle
Oscar Micheaux	Film/TV Producer	2-Jan-1884	25-Mar-1951	Within Our Gates
Maria Montez	Actor	6-Jun-1912	7-Sep-1951	The Exile
Vladimir Peniakoff	Military	30-Mar-1897	May-1951	Head of Popski's Private Army
Philippe Pétain	Head of State	24-Apr-1856	23-Jul-1951	Leader of Vichy France
Ferdinand Porsche	Engineer	3-Sep-1875	30-Jan-1951	Designer of the Volkswagen Beetle
Stanley Ridges	Actor	17-Jul-1890	22-Apr-1951	Black Friday
Harold W. Ross	Publisher	6-Nov-1892	6-Dec-1951	Founder of The New Yorker
Pedro Salinas	Poet	27-Nov-1891	4-Dec-1951	Generation of '27
Artur Schnabel	Pianist	17-Apr-1882	15-Aug-1951	Pianist and classical composer
Arnold Schoenberg	Composer	13-Sep-1874	13-Jul-1951	Emancipated dissonance
Arnold Sommerfeld	Physicist	5-Dec-1868	26-Apr-1951	Fine-structure constant
Arthur Vandenberg	Politician	22-Mar-1884	18-Apr-1951	US Senator from Michigan, 1928-51
William A. Vinson	Judge	22-Dec-1874	26-Oct-1951	Vinson & Elkins
Robert Walker	Actor	13-Oct-1918	28-Aug-1951	Strangers on a Train
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Philosopher	26-Apr-1889	29-Apr-1951	Destroyed metaphysics

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