Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Andrea Saltelli is an Italian scholar specializing in quantification using statistical and sociological tools. He has extended the theory of sensitivity analysis to sensitivity aud…
Andrea Saltelli, Italian statistician and sociologist
Patrick Gerald Walter Sharkey is a former Northern Irish international footballer.
Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
Thomas Charles Berryhill was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors from January 7, 2019, until his death. He previously r…
Tom Berryhill, American businessman and politician (died 2020)
Aleksandar Živojinović, known professionally as Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band with drummer…
Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist and novelist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive …
Joan Smith, English journalist and author
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare is a Swedish and American actor. He rose to prominence in Sweden for playing Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman in his 1988 production of the play, and in America…
Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright
Ditmar Jakobs is a German former footballer who played as a defender. He played as a centre-back, a classical libero in the mold of Franz Beckenbauer or Willi Schulz.
Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
Tõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.
Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
David Douglas Boaz was a libertarian author, philosopher and editor. He was a distinguished senior fellow and the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libert…
David Boaz, American businessman and author
Richard Mark Harding is a former rugby union international who played for England, and on his last test captained them. He also played club rugby for his home city of Bristol and w…
Richard Harding, English rugby union player
James Quesada is a Nicaraguan American Anthropologist and professor at San Francisco State University's Department of Anthropology.. His work focuses on cultural and medical anthro…
James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
Ronald Alan George is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007 to 2015. He first represented the 30th district in from 2007 t…
Ron George, American businessman and politician
Lech Majewski is a Polish-American poet, filmmaker, media artist, writer, and theater director. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture A…
Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
Stephen Graham "Horace" Panter, also known professionally as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the British 2 Tone ska band The Specials.
Horace Panter, English bass player
Robert Lee Parish, nicknamed "the Chief", is an American former professional basketball player. A 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) center, he played 21 seasons in the National Basketball Ass…
Robert Parish, American basketball player
Marcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, television correspondent, and television producer. She was the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case.
Marcia Clark, American attorney and author
Miguel Ángel Guerra is a former racing driver from Argentina. He participated in four Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 15 March 1981. He qualified for only one of these, the 19…
Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentinian race car driver
György Károly was a Hungarian poet and writer.
György Károly, Hungarian poet and author (died 2018)
Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov is a former cosmonaut and commander of the International Space Station. He has flown into space three times, aboard Mir and the International Space S…
Pavel Vinogradov, Russian astronaut and engineer
Elisabeth Kværne was a Norwegian musician. She played the langeleik, a string instrument similar to the Appalachian dulcimer. She won the 1985 Spellemannprisen in the category fol…
Elisabeth Kværne, Norwegian langeleik player (died 2024)
Maurice John Colclough was an England international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa and the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zeala…
Maurice Colclough, English rugby player (died 2006)
John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, producer, arranger and saxophonist who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde compositions and experimental improvisation…
John Zorn, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French director and screenwriter.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French director, producer, and screenwriter
George Peponis is a Greek Australian company director and former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australia national and New South Wales s…
George Peponis, Greek-Australian rugby league player and physician