Editing 1951

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== Events ==
* January 15 - [[Ilse Koch]] is sentenced to life in prison by a West German court.
* January 31 - [[Getúlio Vargas]] is elected President of Brazil for the second time.
* February 9 to 11 - The [[Geochang Massacre]] takes place.
* February 26 - 22 intellectuals are executed without trial in Tirana, Albania on [[Enver Hoxha]]'s orders after being accused of bombing a Soviet embassy.
* 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 [[Communist Party of Vietnam|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 proclaimed King of Libya after Libya declares independence from Italy.

== 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 23 - [[Catherine Birnie]]
* May 31 - [[Becky Fischer]]
* June 6 - [[Frank Spisak]]
* June 19 - [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]
* June 27 - [[Leonard Fraser]]
* July 3 - [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]
* July 13 - [[Steve "Clem" Grogan]]
* August 8 - [[Mohammed Morsi]]
* August 16 - [[Jack Unterweger]]
* September 1 - [[Édouard Karemera]]
* September 12 - [[Gerald Stano]]
* September 26 - [[Ronald DeFeo, Jr.]]
* October 28 - [[Marvin Heemeyer]]
* October - [[Terry Jones]]
* December 10 - [[Rosmah Mansor]]
* Unknown - [[David McGreavy]]
* Unknown - [[Juvenal Uwilingiyimana]]
* Unknown - [[Fred Woods]]

=== Victim births ===
* February 7 - Elsie Frost
* February 12 - Steven Parent
* February 14 - Janice Ott
* February 23 - Marina Habe
* April 11 - Doris Angleton
* September 20 - Caryn Campbell
* October 2 - David Faraday
* October 21 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/William_%22Dave%22_Sanders Dave Sanders]
* October 24 - Meredith Hunter
* November 8 - Brenda Ball 

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* June 7 - [[Oswald Pohl]], [[Paul Blobel]], [[Otto Ohlendorf]] & [[Erich Naumann]]
* July 23 - [[Philippe Pétain]]
* October 15 - [[Halsted Ritter]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* October 6 - Sir Henry Gurney