Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Dame Athene Margaret Donald is a British physicist. She was Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and former Master of Churchill College, Cambri…
Athene Donald, English physicist and academic
Alan Kupperberg was an American comics artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.
Alan Kupperberg, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing the lead role in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is …
Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
Peter Onorati is an American actor. He is known for his TV roles as Charlie Howell on Civil Wars (1991–1993), Mr. Scotto on Murder One (1995–1997), Stanley Pearson on This Is Us (2…
Peter Onorati, American actor
Richard James Page is an American musician who is best known as the lead singer and bassist of 1980s band Mr. Mister. The band's hits include "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie". Page has a…
Richard Page, American singer-songwriter and bass player
John Mansfield Brumby is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became leader o…
John Brumby, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Victoria
Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's …
Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and model
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New Yor…
Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He w…
Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Michael Gordon Oldfield is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commerci…
Mike Oldfield, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra, is a Conservative Party life peer. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 1983 to 2010.
David Maclean, Scottish politician
Stephen Errol Woolman, Lord Woolman, is a Scottish legal academic and a retired Senator of the College of Justice.
Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic
Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge, PC is a Scottish retired judge, who served as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich) Karapetyan is a Soviet-Armenian former finswimmer. He was best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan.
Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
Florin Marin was a Romanian professional football manager and player. Marin had a total of 456 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A consisting of 166 victor…
Florin Marin, Romanian footballer and manager
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , born Toshimitsu Obata , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Sōbetsu, Hokkaido. He entered professional sumo at the age of 13 and set several youth…
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015)
Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, musician, screenwriter, and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several …
Victoria Wood, English actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Robert Keith Bennett Doyle is an Australian politician who was the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008 until he resigned on 4 February 2018 amidst allegation…
Robert Doyle, Australian educator and politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, known professionally as Nora Aunor, was a Filipino actress, producer, and singer. Known for her leading roles with patriotic, feminist and socio-politica…
Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording artist (died 2025)
James Devine is a former Labour Party politician in Scotland. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and chairman of the Scottish Labour Party bet…
Jim Devine, British politician
François Bon is a French writer and translator.
François Bon, French writer
Cha Bum-kun is a South Korean former football manager and player. A forward, he was nicknamed Tscha Bum or "Cha Boom" in Germany because of his name and thunderous ball striking ab…
Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
Paul Mariner was an English football player and coach.
Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Alfred Molina is a British and American actor. He is known for roles on the stage and screen. Molina has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy …
Alfred Molina, English actor