List of Famous people who died in 1951

Josef Adolf was an Ethnic German Nordic combined skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1920s.

Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a member of the House of Saud who served as the defense minister of Saudi Arabia between 1943 and 1951.

Prince Maximilian William Augustus Albert Charles Gregory Odo of Saxony, Duke of Saxony was a member of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin and a Catholic priest.

Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German naval officer, diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1943, and as its Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. He was a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family, and the father of German President Richard von Weizsäcker and physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Anton Frederik Philips co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His father and Gerard had founded the Philips Company in 1891 as a family business. Anton Philips served as CEO of the company from 1922 to 1939.

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster, known as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1892 to 1910, was a British Conservative politician.

Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden, was a British socialist, human rights activist, and feminist politician. From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool. She aligned to the Fabian Society and later the Independent Labour Party, earning an income by lecturing in Britain and abroad. Snowden was one of the leading campaigners for women's suffrage before the First World War, then founding The Women's Peace Crusade to oppose the war and call for a negotiated peace. After a visit to the Soviet Union she developed a strong criticism of its system, which made her unpopular when relayed to the left-wing in Britain.

Rear-Admiral Frederick William Fane Hervey, 4th Marquess of Bristol MVO was a British nobleman, naval officer and Conservative Party politician.

Jules Berry was a French actor.