Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Charles Fleischer is an American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, and writer, best known for his recurring role as Carvelli in Welcome Back, Kotter, and for appearing in films s…
Charles Fleischer, American comedian and actor
Philip Neil Murray is a Scottish musician, best known as the former bassist of Whitesnake, the Brian May Band, Black Sabbath, and Gary Moore.
Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter
Edmund S. C. Weiner is the former co-editor of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1985–1989) and Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993–presen…
Edmund Weiner, English lexicographer and author
Ronald Ames Guidry, nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Ne…
Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
William Anthony Husband was a British cartoonist known for his black humour. He was mainly known for his work in Private Eye magazine, and his work has appeared in The Times, the D…
Tony Husband, English cartoonist (died 2023)
Douglas Vernon DeCinces is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a third baseman from 1973 to 1987 for the Baltimore Orioles,…
Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
Frank Henenlotter is an American film director, screenwriter and film historian. He is known primarily for directing horror comedies, especially Basket Case (1981), Brain Damage (1…
Frank Henenlotter, American director and screenwriter
David George Reichert is an American retired police officer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2019. A mo…
Dave Reichert, American soldier and politician
Aki Yashiro , real name Akiyo Masuda , née Hashimoto , was a Japanese enka singer and painter. Her stage name "Yashiro" was adopted from her hometown Yatsushiro.
Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer (died 2023)
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and ere…
Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
Dana Rosemary Scallon, known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer, songwriter and politician. While still a schoolgirl she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kind…
Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
Eduardo Nonato "Edno" Noriel Joson was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served in the Philippine legislature as assemblyman from Nueva Ecija (1984–1986) and representative of t…
Eduardo Nonato Joson, Filipino politician (died 2025)
Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An independent, he was the longest serving director of Russia's Foreign…
Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Russia
Phillip Calvin McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author who hosted the talk show Dr. Phil. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, t…
Phil McGraw, American psychologist, author and talk show host
Rosanna DeSoto is an American actress who has performed in films and television. She is best known for her roles in Stand and Deliver, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award…
Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
Michael Rother is a German experimental musician, best known for being a founding member of the influential bands Neu! and Harmonia, and an early member of the band Kraftwerk.
Michael Rother, German guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
Antony Harold Curties Windsor, is a former Australian politician. Windsor was an independent member for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Tamworth from 1991 to 2001 …
Tony Windsor, Australian politician
Douglas Theodore Pinnick, sometimes stylized as dUg Pinnick or simply dUg, is an American musician best known as the bass guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and songwriter for the hard r…
Doug Pinnick, American rock singer-songwriter and bass player
Doyle Lafayette Alexander is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, A…
Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
Frank White Jr. is an American politician and former professional baseball player, coach, and television sports commentator who is currently the first base coach for the Kansas Cit…
Frank White, American baseball player and politician
Cathy Lee Guisewite is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of ea…
Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy
Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM, also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia during the 1980s. He was the subject of Victoria'…
Johann Friedrich, German-Australian engineer (died 1991)
Julie Deborah Kavner is an American actress. Before becoming well known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner attracted notice …
Julie Kavner, American actress
Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to …
Peggy Noonan, American author, journalist, speechwriter, and pundit