Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Kerry Boustead is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the late 1970s, 1980s, & early 1990s. A talented representative wing for Queensland and Australia, at t…
Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
Dante Daniel Bonaduce is an American retired radio personality, actor, television personality and professional wrestler. Bonaduce is the son of veteran TV writer and producer Josep…
Danny Bonaduce, American actor and wrestler
Bruce Nicholas French is a former English cricketer, who played in sixteen Test matches and 13 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team from 1985 to 1988. A wicket-keepe…
Bruce French, English cricketer and coach
Thomas Edward Niedenfuer is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher. Exclusively a reliever during his ten-year career, he played his first six-plus seasons f…
Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
Francis Anthony Brickowski is an American former professional basketball player, who started his career playing 3 seasons overseas before playing 13 seasons in the National Basketb…
Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film Miller's Crossing. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supp…
Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. He is widely regarded as the greatest point guard of all time and one of the greate…
Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle miss…
Scott Altman, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Marc Sergeant is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. After Sergeant stopped his cycling career, …
Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pr…
Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist
Jacek Kazimierski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer
Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons…
Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
David Koresh was an American cult leader and preacher who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect, Koresh claimed to…
David Koresh, American cult leader (died 1993)
Thomas Prichard is an American retired professional wrestler and author better known by the ring name Dr. Tom Prichard. He is the older brother of Bruce Prichard.
Tom Prichard, American wrestler and trainer
Chris Mortimer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for the Canterbury-Bankstown, Penrith, New South Wales and for …
Chris Mortimer, Australian rugby league player
Ivan Neville is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to the other members of The Neville Brothers.
Ivan Neville, American singer-songwriter
Richard Charles Pierce is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Deuces" and "Big Paper Daddy", he was selected as an NBA All-Star (1991) and was twice the N…
Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
Anne Hobbs is a British former professional tennis player.
Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
James Robert McMahon Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, most notably with the Chicago Bear…
Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
Juan Croucier is a Cuban-born American musician. He is best known as the bassist for the hard rock/glam metal band Ratt.
Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
Pia Gjellerup is a Danish politician representing the Social Democrats. She has been a Member of Parliament (Folketinget) since 8 September 1987 and has occupied three different ca…
Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the BBC sketch show The Fast S…
Mark Williams, English actor
Edwyn Stephen Collins is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner. Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded. After the…
Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
George Kalovelonis is a former tennis player from Greece, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the fir…
George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player and coach