List of Famous people who died in 1951

María África Gracia Vidal ,(known as the "Queen Of The Technicolor" and "Maria Montez") was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as "The Queen of Technicolor". Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and the last five were made in Europe.

David Torrence was a Scottish film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1939. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the brother of actor Ernest Torrence. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

John Theodore Buchholz (1888–1951) was an American botanist, specialising in gymnosperms.

Selected bibliography

• Polyembryony among Abietineae. Bot. Gaz. 69: 153-167 (1920).
• Embryo development and polyembryony in relation to the phylogeny of conifers. Amer. J. Bot. 7: 125-145 (1920).
• The classification of Coniferales. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 25: 112–113. (1933).
• The generic segregation of the Sequoias. Amer. J. Bot. 26: 535-538 (1939).
• A comparison of the embryogeny of Picea and Abies. Madroño 6: 156-167 (1942).
• Generic and subgeneric distribution of the Coniferales. Bot. Gaz. 110: 80-91 (1948).
• Additions to the coniferous flora of New Caledonia. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) sér.2, 21: 279-286 (1949).
• A flat-leaved pine from Annam, Indo-China. Amer. J. Bot. 38: 245-252 (1951).

Monckton Hoffe (1880–1951) was an Irish playwright and screenwriter.

Edward Coke MC, known professionally as Edward Rigby, was a British character actor.

Ernest Cossart was an English-American actor. After a stage career in England, he moved to the US, appearing on Broadway and all around the country. In the 1930s and 1940s, he appeared in films, specialising in playing butlers, valets, and similar roles, but playing a range of other parts.

Ferdinand Frédéric "Fred" Barlow was a 20th-century French classical composer.

Maurice Edgard Vieux was a French violist whose teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris plays a key role in the history of the viola in France.

Martin Edwin Trapp was an American state auditor, governor and lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma's third lieutenant governor, he was the first to become governor not through an election but instead due to the previous governor's impeachment and removal from office.

Mary White Ovington was an American suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).