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See also:	History of the United States (1945–1964) Timeline of the history of the United States (1950-1970) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1951 in the United States.

• President:Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri)
• Vice President:Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky)
• Chief Justice:Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
• Senate Majority Leader:

Scott W. Lucas (D-Illinois) (until January 3)

Ernest McFarland (D-Arizona) (starting January 3)

• Congress:81st (until January 3),82nd (starting January 3)

• January 1 – First week ofPatti Page's hit song "Tennessee Waltz" as No. 1 single onBillboard andCashboxcharts.
• January 10 – The newUnited Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• January 17 –Korean War: Chinese andNorth Korean forces captureSeoul.
• January 27 –Nuclear testing at theNevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped onFrenchman Flat, northwest ofLas Vegas.
• January 31 – The last daily narrow gauge passenger train, theSan Juan Express, is retired by theDenver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
• February 21 – TheJack in the Boxfast-food restaurant chain is founded byRobert O. Peterson inSan Diego, California.
• February 27 – TheTwenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• March 2 – The firstNBA All-Star Game of basketball is played in theBoston Garden.
• March 3 or 5 –Jackie Brenston "and His Delta Cats" (actuallyIke Turner'sKings of Rhythm) record "Rocket 88" atSam Phillips'Sun Studio inMemphis, Tennessee, a candidate forthe first rock and roll record (released in April). It is covered on June 14 byBill Haley and His Saddlemen.
• March 12 –Hank Ketcham's best-sellingcomic stripDennis the Menace appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.
• March 14 –Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
• March 29
  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted ofconspiracy to commitespionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein'sThe King and I opens onBroadway and runs for three years. It is the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical specifically written for an actress (Gertrude Lawrence). Lawrence is stricken with cancer during the run of the show and dies halfway through its run a year later. The show makes a star ofYul Brynner.
  • The23rd Academy Awards ceremony, hosted byFred Astaire, is held atRKO Pantages Theatre inHollywood,Los Angeles.Joseph L. Mankiewicz'sAll About Eve wins six awards, includingBest Motion Picture and Mankiewicz's second consecutiveBest Director win. The film is also nominated for 14 awards overall, breaking the record of 13 set by 1939'sGone with the Wind.
• March 31 –Remington Rand delivers the firstUNIVAC I computer to theUnited States Census Bureau.

• April 7 –Operation Greenhouse: The firstthermonuclear burn is carried out onEnewetak Atoll in theMarshall Islands of the Pacific by the U.S. Three further tests in this series take place up to May 24.
• April 11 – U.S. PresidentHarry S. Truman relieves GeneralDouglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
• April 27 –RKO releases theHoward Hawks sci-fi filmThe Thing from Another World.
• May 3 – TheU.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services andU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• May 21 – The Ninth Street Show, formally known as the9th Street Art Exhibition, a gathering of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the post war New Yorkavant-garde, collectively known as theNew York School.
• June 4 – TheFoley Square trial concludes review in theU.S. Supreme Court asDennis v. United States, with a ruling against the defendants (overturned byYates v. United States in 1957).
• June 14 – TheUNIVAC I computer is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.^[1]
• June 15–July 1 – InNew Mexico,Arizona,California,Oregon,Washington andBritish Columbia, thousands of hectares of forests are destroyed in fires.
• June 18 –Battle Ground, Washington is incorporated.

• July 10 – Korean War:Armistice negotiations begin atKaesong.
• July 11–12 –Cicero race riot of 1951: A mob of 4,000 whites attack an apartment building housing a single black family in a neighborhood inCicero, Illinois.
• July 13
  • TheGreat Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in NortheastKansas, culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in theMidwestern United States.
  • MGM'sTechnicolor film version ofShow Boat, starringKathryn Grayson,Ava Gardner, andHoward Keel, premieres atRadio City Music Hall in New York City. The musical brings overnight fame toAfrican American bass-baritoneWilliam Warfield (who singsOl' Man River in the film).
• July 14 – InJoplin, Missouri, theGeorge Washington Carver National Monument becomes the firstUnited States National Monument to honor an African American.
• July 16 –J. D. Salinger'scoming-of-age storyThe Catcher in the Rye is published byLittle, Brown and Company in New York City.
• July 17 –Western New England College inSpringfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
• July 26 –Walt Disney's 13thanimated feature film,Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom. Though the film is not well received critically upon release, it later garners more acclaim from thepsychedelic era onwards as acult classic.
• July 30 –David Lean'sOliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedlyanti-Semitic references and closeups ofAlec Guinness asFagin are cut. It will not be shown uncut in the U.S. until 1970.
• September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called theANZUS Treaty.
• September 3 – The Americansoap operaSearch for Tomorrow debuts onCBS. The show switches toNBC on March 26, 1982, and airs its final episode on December 26, 1986.
• September 8
  • Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign apeace treaty with Japan to formally end thePacific War.
  • Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which allowsUnited States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after theoccupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.
• September 18
  • 20th Century Fox'sRobert Wise science fiction filmThe Day the Earth Stood Still is released.
  • Elia Kazan's adaptation of theTennessee Williams playA Streetcar Named Desire premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.
• September 20 –NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.
• September 24 –MGM releases the musicalShow Boat.

• October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World": One of the greatest moments inMajor League Baseball history occurs when theNew York Giants'Bobby Thomson hits a game winninghome run in the bottom of the 9thinning off ofBrooklyn DodgerspitcherRalph Branca, to win theNational Leaguepennant after being down 14 games.
• October 4
  • MGM's Technicolor musical film,An American in Paris, starringGene Kelly andLeslie Caron and directed byVincente Minnelli, premieres in New York. It will go on to win sixAcademy Awards, includingBest Picture.
  • Shoppers World (one of the first shopping malls in the U.S.) opens inFramingham, Massachusetts.
• October 10 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theNew York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 2, to win the 14th World Series Title.
• October 15 –SitcomI Love Lucy, starringLucille Ball and her husbandDesi Arnaz, makes its television debut onCBS.
• October 16 –Judy Garland begins her legendary concerts in New York'sPalace Theatre (Broadway).
• October 17 –CBS' Eye logo premieres on television.
• October 20 – The "Johnny Bright incident", an assault on an African American player, occurs in acollege football game atStillwater, Oklahoma.
• October 24 – U.S. PresidentHarry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.^[2]
• November 1 – The first military exercises fornuclear warfare, with infantry troops included, are held in theNevada desert.
• November 5 – TheNew Jersey Turnpike is opened.
• November 10 –Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins.
• November 11 – Monogram Pictures releases the sci-fi filmFlight to Mars in the United States.
• November 22 –Paramount Pictures releasesGeorge Pal science fiction filmWhen Worlds Collide.
• November 24 – TheBroadway playGigi opens, starring little known actressAudrey Hepburn as the lead character.
• November 28 – The filmScrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the U.S. under the title ofCharles Dickens's original novel,A Christmas Carol.
• c. December – TheInstitute of War and Peace Studies is established byDwight D. Eisenhower atColumbia University inNew York (of which he ispresident) withWilliam T. R. Fox as first director.^[3]
• December 13 – Awater storage tank collapses inTucumcari, New Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths and 200 buildings destroyed.
• December 17 – "We Charge Genocide", a petition describinggenocide by the U.S. government againstAfrican Americans, is delivered to the United Nations.
• December 20 –Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1), the world's first (experimental)nuclear power plant, opens inIdaho.
• December 23 –John Huston's drama film,The African Queen, starringHumphrey Bogart andKatharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood.
• December 24 –Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute operaAmahl and the Night Visitors premieres live onNBC, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
• December 31 – TheMarshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion inforeign aid to rebuild Europe.^[4]

• Cold War (1947–1991)
• Second Red Scare (1947–1957)
• Marshall Plan (1948–1951)
• Korean War (1950–1953)

• "Vegas Vic" is added to thePioneer Club, inLas Vegas.

• January 2 –Jim Essian, baseball player and coach
• January 4
  • Bob Black, author and activist
  • Barbara Cochran, skier
• January 6
  • Don Gullett, baseball player and coach (d.2024)^[5]
  • Kim Wilson, singer, harmonica player
• January 8 –John McTiernan, director, producer and writer
• January 9 –John Prados, historian and war gamer designer (d.2022)^[6]
• January 10 –Tim Seelig, composer^[7]
• January 11 –Carol Leigh, author and sex workers' rights activist (d.2022)^[8]
• January 12
  • Kirstie Alley, actress (d.2022)
  • Chris Bell, guitarist and singer-songwriter (d.1978)
  • Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio personality (d.2021)
• January 18 –Elijah Cummings, African American politician (d.2019)
• January 21 –Eric Holder, African American politician, 82ndUnited States Attorney General
• January 22
  • Alveda King, activist, minister, author and politician
  • Leon Roberts, baseball player
• January 23
  • Margaret Bailes, sprinter
  • Michael R. Matz, horse rider and trainer
  • Sully Sullenberger, airline captain^[9]
• January 25
  • Steve Prefontaine, runner (d.1975)
  • Bill Viola, video artist (d.2024)
• January 27
  • Seth Justman, rock keyboardist (The J. Geils Band)
  • Ken Timbs, wrestler (d.2004)
• January 30 –Charles S. Dutton, African American actor
• January 31
  • Dave Benton, Aruban-born American singer
  • Harry Wayne Casey, musician, songwriter and producer

• February 4 –Phil Ehart, drummer (Kansas)
• February 5 –O'Neal Compton, actor and director (d.2019)
• February 7 –Kim Milford, actor and singer (d.1988)
• February 9
  • Jay Inslee, politician
  • David Pomeranz, singer
• February 10 –Bob Iger, CEO ofThe Walt Disney Company^[10]
• February 12
  • Cory Lerios, pianist and vocalist
  • Susan Page, journalist and political commentator
• February 13 –David Naughton, actor (Makin' It)^[11] ***
• February 15 –Melissa Manchester, pop singer
• February 16
  • Mike Flanagan, baseball pitcher (died2011)
  • William Katt, film, television actor (The Greatest American Hero)
• February 19 –Alan Merrill, musician (died2020)^[12]
• February 20 –Edward Albert, film and television actor (died2006)
• February 22 –Ellen Greene, actress
• February 23 –Patricia Richardson, actress
• February 24 –Debra Jo Rupp, actress (That 70's Show)
• February 27 –Lee Atwater, political activist, campaign strategist and presidential advisor (d.1991)

• March 1 –Deb Fischer, politician
• March 4
  • Mike Quarry, light-heavyweight boxer (died2006)^[13]
  • Gwen Welles, actress (died1993)
• March 8 –Dianne Walker, tap dancer
• March 14 –Jerry Greenfield, co-founder ofBen & Jerry's ice cream
• March 17
  • Bill Atkinson, computer scientist (died2025)
  • Kurt Russell, actor
• March 18
  • Ben Cohen, co-founder ofBen & Jerry's ice cream
  • B. E. Taylor, singer (d.2016)
• March 19 –Fred Berry, actor (d.2003)
• March 20 –Jimmie Vaughan, blues rock guitarist and singer
• March 24 –Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
• March 26 –Carl Wieman, physicist,Nobel Prize laureate

• April 1
  • Tim Bassett, basketball player (d.2018)
  • Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designedEmpty Sky (d.2014)^[14]
• April 5 –Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur
• April 7 –Janis Ian, folk singer-songwriter
• April 8 –Phil Schaap, radio host (d.2021)^[15]
• April 10 –David Helvarg, journalist, activist
• April 11 –Doris Angleton, socialite, murder victim (d.1997)
• April 12
  • Alex Briley, disco singer
  • Tom Noonan, film actor
• April 13
  • Peabo Bryson, African American R&B singer-songwriter
  • John Furey, screen actor
  • Max Weinberg, rock drummer
• April 16
  • Mordechai Ben David, Hasidic Jewish singer
  • Bill Walker, 13th Governor of Alaska
• April 20 –Luther Vandross, African American R&B, soul singer-songwriter (d.2005)
• April 21
  • Tony Danza, actor, comedian (Who's the Boss?)
  • Bob Varsha, sportscaster
• April 23 –Allison Krause, Kent State University shooting victim (d.1970)
• April 24 –Martha P. Haynes, astronomer and academic
• April 27 –Ace Frehley, rock guitarist (Kiss) (d.2025)
• April 29 –Dale Earnhardt, race car driver (d.2001 inauto racing accident)
• May 1 –Sally Mann, photographer
• May 3
  • Christopher Cross, pop rock singer-songwriter ("Sailing")
  • Stewart F. Lane, Broadway producer, director, playwright and actor
• May 4 –Jackie Jackson, African American pop singer (The Jackson 5)
• May 9 –Joy Harjo, Native American poet
• May 12 –Joe Nolan, baseball player
• May 13
  • Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis
  • Guy Morriss, American football coach and player (d.2022)^[16]
• May 15
  • Jonathan Richman, proto-punk singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Frank Wilczek, physicist,Nobel Prize laureate
• May 19
  • Joey Ramone, rock musician (Ramones) (d.2001)
  • Dick Slater, professional wrestler (d.2018)
• May 20 –Mike Crapo, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1999
• May 21
  • Al Franken, comedian (Saturday Night Live) and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018
  • Bob Gale, film screenwriter, producer and director
• May 23 –Jill E. Barad, businessperson
• May 26 –Sally Ride, First American woman astronaut (d.2012)
• May 28 –JoAnne A. Epps, legal scholar and academic (d.2023)
• May 30
  • Garrett Hongo, poet
  • Stephen Tobolowsky, screen actor
• May 31 –Jimmy Nalls, jazz fusion guitarist (Sea Level) (d.2017)
• June 2
  • Gilbert Baker, artist and activist, creator of theRainbow flag in 1978 (d.2017)
  • Jeanine Pirro, attorney, politician and conservative political commentator
• June 3 –Jill Biden,First Lady of the United States
• June 5 –Suze Orman, financial advisor, writer and television personality
• June 6 –Dwight Twilley, pop/rock singer and songwriter (d.2023)
• June 8 –Tony Rice, bluegrass musician (d.2020)
• June 9
  • Bruce Duffy, author (d.2022)^[17]
  • James Newton Howard, film composer
  • Dave Parker, baseball player (d.2025)
• June 12 –Brad Delp, rock vocalist (Boston) (d.2007)
• June 13 –Richard Thomas, television actor (The Waltons)
• June 15 –Jane Amsterdam, magazine editor
• June 16 –Charlie Dominici, progressive metal singer (d.2023)
• June 18 –Steve Miner, screen director and producer
• June 20 –Tress MacNeille, voice actress
• June 21 –Nils Lofgren, rock musician
• June 24
  • Leslie Cochran, homeless activist and Austin icon (d.2012)
  • Ken Reitz, baseball player (d.2021)
• June 27
  • Julia Duffy, actress
  • K. L. Brown, Alabamian politician
• June 28 –Lloyd Maines, country musician, record producer
• June 29
  • Keno Don Rosa, comic book author
  • Craig Sager, sports commentator (d.2016)
• June 30 –Stanley Clarke, jazz fusion bass guitarist

• July 1
  • Daryl Anderson, television actor
  • Anne Feeney, folk singer (d.2021)
  • Terrence Mann, actor and dancer
• July 2
  • Anne Garrels, journalist (d.2022)^[18]
  • Keith Marshall, baseball player
  • Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist (d.2002)
  • Stevie Woods, R&B singer (d.2014)
• July 3 –Bob Rigby, soccer goalkeeper
• July 4 –Vincent Marzello, screen actor (d.2020)
• July 5
  • Goose Gossage, baseball player
  • Roger Wicker, politician
• July 7 –Roz Ryan, actress and voice actress
• July 8 –Anjelica Huston, screen actress
• July 9 –Chris Cooper, screen actor
• July 10 –Cheryl Wheeler, folk singer-songwriter
• July 11
  • Yechiel Eckstein, rabbi (d.2019)
  • Ed Ott, baseball player (d.2024)^[19]
• July 12
  • Brian Grazer, film producer
  • Cheryl Ladd, actress and singer
• July 15 –Jesse Ventura, actor, pro wrestler, and politician
• July 17 –Lucie Arnaz, actress and singer
• July 19 –Debra Byrd, vocalist (d.2024)^[20]
• July 21 –Robin Williams, actor and comedian (d.2014)^[21]
• July 22
  • Tisa Farrow, film actress (died2024)
  • Slick Watts, basketball player (died2025)
• July 23 –Michael McConnohie, voice actor
• July 24 –Lynda Carter, actress and singer
• July 25 –Angela Jackson, African American poet and playwright
• July 28
  • Doug Collins, basketball player, coach and analyst
  • Garrett Hongo, poet
• July 31 –Barry Van Dyke, actor, writer, director and presenter
• August 2 –Andrew Gold, pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (10cc,Wax) (d.2011)
• August 3 –Jay North, actor
• August 4 –Lois V. Vierk, composer
• August 6 –Catherine Hicks, television actress
• August 8 –Randy Shilts, journalist and author (d.1994)
• August 9 –Mike Downey, sports columnist (d.2024)^[22]
• August 12 –Willie Horton, criminal
• August 13 –Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (d.2007)
• August 14
  • Slim Dunlap, rock musician (d.2024)
  • Carl Lumbly, African American screen and voice actor
• August 15 –Bobby Caldwell, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (d.2023)
• August 17 –Richard Hunt, puppeteer (d.1992)^[23]
• August 20 –Greg Bear, science fiction author (d.2022)
• August 21
  • Chesley V. Morton, politician and securities arbitrator
  • Harry Smith, television journalist and editor
  • John Stearns, baseball player (d.2022)
• August 23
  • Allan Bristow, basketball player and coach
  • Mark Hudson, record producer
  • Jimi Jamison, rock singer-songwriter (Survivor) (d.2014)^[24]
  • Susan L. Solomon, executive and lawyer (d.2022)^[25]
• August 24
  • Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
  • Bill C. Davis, playwright and actor (d.2021)
• August 26 –Edward Witten, mathematician, Fields medalist
• August 27
  • Mack Brown, college football coach
  • Robert Torricelli, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1997 to 2003
• August 28
  • Barbara Hambly, novelist and screenwriter
  • Wayne Osmond, pop singer (d.2025)
• August 30 –Timothy Bottoms, film actor
• September 2
  • Jim DeMint, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
  • Mark Harmon, screen actor
• September 4 –Judith Ivey, stage actress and director
• September 5 –Michael Keaton, screen actor and director
• September 7
  • Chrissie Hynde, rock singer
  • Bert Jones, football player
• September 11 –Mr. Butch, homeless person and Boston icon (d.2007)
• September 12 –Joe Pantoliano, screen character actor
• September 13
  • Suzanne Lummis, poet
  • Jean Smart, actress (Designing Women)
  • Linda Wong, pornographic film actress (d.1987)
• September 15
  • Pete Carroll, football coach
  • Jared Taylor, author and journalist
  • Fred Seibert, screen producer,Frederator Studios founder
• September 17 –Cassandra Peterson, screen actress (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
• September 18
  • Ben Carson, African American politician, author and neurosurgeon
  • Dee Dee Ramone, rock bass guitarist (Ramones) (d.2002)
  • Darryl Stingley, American football player (New England Patriots) (d.2007)
• September 22 –Amanda Mackey, casting director (d.2022)
• September 25
  • Pedro Almodóvar, filmmaker
  • Mark Hamill, film and voice actor (Star Wars)
• September 27
  • Jim Shooter, and illustrator^[26]
  • David Starobin, guitarist, producer, and director

• October 3
  • Bernard Cooper, fiction writer
  • Harold McGee, writer on food science and history
  • Keb' Mo', African American blues musician
  • Kathryn D. Sullivan, astronaut
  • Dave Winfield, baseball player
• October 5 –John Rubey, president of AEG-TV and CEO ofFathom Events and Rubey Entertainment (d.2025)
• October 7 –John Mellencamp, heartland rock singer-songwriter and instrumentalist
• October 11 –Jon Miller, sports announcer
• October 18
  • Mike Antonovich, ice hockey player and executive
  • Pam Dawber, screen actress
  • Terry McMillan, novelist
• October 25 –Richard Lloyd, rock guitarist
• October 26 –Bootsy Collins, African American funk singer-songwriter and bass guitarist
• October 28 –Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, conjoined twins (d.2020)
• October 30 –Harry Hamlin, screen actor
• November 1 –Ronald Bell, musician (Kool & the Gang) (d.2020)
• November 2 –Thomas Mallon, novelist and critic
• November 3 –Ed Murawinski, cartoonist (New York Daily News)
• November 7 –Chris Mortensen, sports journalist (d.2024)
• November 8 –Tom Henry, businessman and politician (d.2024)
• November 9 –Lou Ferrigno, film actor and bodybuilder
• November 11 –Marc Summers, television host
• November 14
  • Frankie Banali, rock drummer (d. 2020)
  • Stephen Bishop, singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
• November 15 –Beverly D'Angelo, actress and singer
• November 16
  • Miguel Sandoval, screen actor
  • Paula Vogel, playwright
• November 17
  • Butch Davis, American football coach
  • Dean Paul Martin, pop singer and screen actor (d.1987)
  • Stephen Root, screen and voice actor
• November 18 –Justin Raimondo, political activist (d.2019)
• November 20 –Rodger Bumpass, voice actor (Squidward Tentacles onSpongeBob SquarePants)
• November 21 –John Kennedy, Junior senator from Louisiana
• November 24
  • Chet Edwards, politician
  • Robin Herman, writer and journalist (d.2022)^[27]
• November 27
  • Teri DeSario, disco singer-songwriter
  • Kathryn Bigelow, film director
• November 29 –Roger Troutman, funk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (d.1999)
• December 1
  • Sherry Aldridge, singer
  • Obba Babatundé, actor
  • Jaco Pastorius, jazz fusion bass guitarist (d.1987)
  • Treat Williams, actor, writer and aviator (d.2023)
• December 2 –Adrian Devine, baseball pitcher (d.2020)
• December 4
  • Gary Rossington, guitarist and songwriter (d.2023)
  • Patricia Wettig, screen actress
• December 8 –Bill Bryson, non-fiction author
• December 10 –Johnny Rodriguez, country singer
• December 11 –Peter T. Daniels, writing systems scholar
• December 12 –Greg Lee, basketball player (d.2022)^[28]
• December 18
  • Bobby Jones, basketball player
  • Alvin E. Roth, academic
• December 19 –Karl F. Lopker, business executive (d.2018)
• December 31 –Tom Hamilton, hard rock bass guitarist and songwriter

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