1951

Events

• January 15 - Ilse Koch is sentenced to life in prison by a West German court.
• April 5 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are found guilty of high treason and are sentenced to death.
• May 23 - The Seventeen Points Agreement is signed by the Communist Party of China and Tibet, ceding sovereignty over Tibet to China.
• June 28 - Both the Cambodian People's Party and the Communist Party of Kampuchea break away from the Indochinese Communist Party.
• October 6 - Sir Henry Gurney, the British high commissioner in Malaya, is assassinated by members of the Communist Party of Malaya.
• December 24 - Idris of Libya is appointed monarch of the Kingdom of Libya.

Births

Villain births

• February 3 - Blaise Compaoré
• February 16 - David Birnie
• February 17 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
• March 21 - Buck Zumhofe
• April 5 - Phillip Garrido
• April 13 - Joseph Paul Franklin
• April 14 - Bruce Mendenhall
• April 15 - Paul Snider
• May 6 - Samuel Doe
• May 22 - Kenneth Bianchi
• May 31 - Becky Fischer
• June 6 - Frank Spisak
• June 19 - Ayman al-Zawahiri
• June 27 - Leonard Fraser
• August 8 - Mohamed Morsi
• August 16 - Jack Unterweger
• September 1 - Édouard Karemera
• September 12 - Gerald Stano
• September 26 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr.
• October 28 - Marvin Heemeyer
• December 10 - Rosmah Mansor
• Unknown - Juvenal Uwilingiyimana

Victim births

• February 12 - Steven Parent
• October 2 - David Faraday
• October 21 - Dave Sanders

Deaths

Villain deaths

• June 7 - Oswald Pohl, Paul Blobel, & Erich Naumann
• July 23 - Philippe Pétain
• October 15 - Halsted Ritter

Victim deaths

• October 6 - Sir Henry Gurney