Famous people and celebrities who died in May 1951

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in May 1951. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

May 5 Eddie Dunn
Comedy star (face to face and spin the picture) dies at the age of 54.
May 6 Élie Cartan
French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
May 7 Warner Baxter
American actor who was born 1918 and had a long, successful career. for his role as "the cisco kid", he won the best actor oscar in 1931.
May 9 Marie Ault
Dies at 80
May 12 Oscar DePriest
American politician (representative-democrat-illinois), dies at age 80.
May 13 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips
Author (issue beukennoot) dies at 65
May 17 Karl Heinrich David
Composer dies at 66
May 24 Thomas N. Heffron
American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
May 25 Paula von Preradović
Croatian-austrian poet and author (d. 1951).
May 26 Lincoln Ellsworth
Pioneering explorer who made significant contributions to Antarctic exploration.
May 27 Thomas Blamey
Soldier
May 29 Fanny Brice
American comedian, genius at caricature and humor. she was an excellent mimic, and had a great ear for dialects. brice sang popular 1910 songs in yiddish accent and won her first amateur contest. she also took home $10.00. ziegfeld discovered her and she began working in vaudeville and the follies, as well as creating "baby snooks", which were used for …
May 29 Robert Kahn
Robert Kahn is a pioneering computer scientist who co-invented the TCP/IP protocols, fundamental to the modern internet's communication infrastructure.
May 29 Dimitrios Levidis
Composer and educator of greek-french soldiers (d. 1951).
May 29 Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Composer dies at 91
May 30 Hermann Broch
Austrian-american author (b. 1886)