Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Michael Thomas Gminski is an American former professional basketball player and a college basketball TV analyst for the ACC Network, ACC on The CW and CBS Sports. In 2003, Gminski,…
Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
John Christopher McGinley is an American actor. He plays Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Plato…
John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
Martin Clive Atkins is an English drummer, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface, and Killing Jo…
Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromo…
Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
Robbinson Lantz Crosby was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the US in the 1980s. Crosby died in 2002 from complica…
Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2002)
John Gormley is an Irish former Green Party politician who served as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from June 2007 to January 2011, Leader of the Green…
John Gormley, Irish politician, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government
Peter Jozzeppi Burns was an English singer, songwriter and television personality.
Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (died 2016)
Georg Albert Ruthenberg, better known by his stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician who plays guitar for Foo Fighters. He was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the Los An…
Pat Smear, American guitarist and songwriter
Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as the "Waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in…
Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
Joyce Elizabeth Sims-Sandiford was an American singer and songwriter, whose biggest hit single, "Come into My Life", reached the top 10 in both the US Billboard R&B Chart and the U…
Joyce Sims, American singer (died 2022)
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudohistorical by mains…
Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
Ali Hassimshah Omarshah, known as Ali Shah, is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer. An all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace, Shah played in t…
Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
Caroline Ansink is a Dutch musician, music educator and composer.
Caroline Ansink, Dutch flute player, composer, and educator
Michael David Kors is an American fashion designer. He is the chief creative officer of his brand, Michael Kors, which sells men's and women's ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, …
Michael Kors, American fashion designer
Albert Owen is a Welsh Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from 2001 to 2019. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a…
Albert Owen, Welsh sailor and politician
Kurtis Walker, known professionally by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Walker is the first commercially successful rapper and th…
Kurtis Blow, American rapper, producer, and actor
Rosanna Lisa Arquette is an American actress. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the television film The Executioner's Song (1982) and won the BAFTA Award f…
Rosanna Arquette, American actress, director, and producer
Mark Gerard Price is an English drummer known for being a member of Nik Kershaw's band, All About Eve and Del Amitri.
Mark Price, English drummer
Florent Vollant is a Canadian singer-songwriter. An Innu from Maliotenam, Quebec, he was half of the popular folk music duo Kashtin, one of the most significant musical groups in F…
Florent Vollant, Canadian singer-songwriter
Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock…
Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2014)
Yoshiaki Murakami is a Japanese investor, bull, former bureaucrat of the MITI, co-founder of "Murakami Fund", and founder of the Murakami Family Foundation (村上財団).
Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese businessman
Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram was a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka. He was kidnapped by four men in a white van on 28 April 2005, in front of the Bambalapitya polic…
Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (died 2005)
Richard Craig Scudamore CBE is an English sports executive.
Richard Scudamore, English businessman
László Szlávics is a Hungarian sculptor and medallic artist. He publishes his works under the names László, ifj. Szlávics or Laszlo Szlavics Jr.László Szlávics jr. has set several …
László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor