Explore 4242 historical events from 1950–1959.
Joseph Anthony Pereira, professionally known as Joe Perry, is an American musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band…
Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Anne Dell is an Australian biochemist specialising in the study of glycomics and the carbohydrate structures that modify proteins. Anne's work could be used to figure out how patho…
Anne Dell, Australian biochemist and academic
Alexander Bruce Doull is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bruce Doull, Australian footballer
Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress and singer. Known for her work on stage and screen, her accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Cri…
Amy Madigan, American actress
Barry Steven Frank Sheene was a British professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between 1971 and 1984, most promi…
Barry Sheene, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster (died 2003)
Gustav Brunner is an Austrian Formula One designer and engineer.
Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
Bruce Mahler is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is known for his role as Sgt. Fackler in the comedy films Police Academy, and as Rabbi Glickman on the sitcom Seinfeld.
Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter
Michael John Murphy is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for 13 years for the St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers and the Los …
Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary …
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She was a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) member of the National As…
Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician
Christine Estabrook is an American actress, known for her roles on the television series The Crew, Nikki, Desperate Housewives, and American Horror Story; she had a recurring role …
Christine Estabrook, American actress
Patrick "Patsy" Holland is an English former footballer who played for clubs West Ham United, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Team Hawaii. Holland has also coached and scouted …
Pat Holland, English footballer and manager
Jeff Lowe was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah who was known for his visionary climbs and first ascents established in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas.
Jeff Lowe, American mountaineer (died 2018)
Paul Francis Kossoff was an English guitarist, best known as the co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Free. In 2010, he was ranked number 51 in Rolling Stone's list of the "10…
Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (died 1976)
Masami Kuwashima is a former racing driver from Japan.
Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
Michael Byron Nifong is a former American attorney who was disbarred after serving as the Durham County District Attorney in North Carolina. He was removed from this position, disb…
Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician
John Steptoe was an author and illustrator children's books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (1987), which…
John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (died 1989)
Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian-American author, public intellectual, and a proponent of Hindutva. He is the founder of Infinity Foundation, an organisation known to focus on Indic stu…
Rajiv Malhotra, Indian author
Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the current and fifth leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. His official title within the movement is Fifth Caliph of the Messiah. He was elected on 22 A…
Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar
The Bellamy Brothers are an American country music duo from Darby, Florida. The duo consists of brothers David Milton Bellamy and Homer Howard Bellamy. The duo had considerable mus…
David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sir Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman is an American-British author, broadcaster, musician, businessman and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He presented …
Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host
John Waldo "Fee" Waybill is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead singer and songwriter of San Francisco rock band The Tubes. Waybill has al…
Fee Waybill, American singer-songwriter and producer
Dame Siobhan Davies DBE, often known as Sue Davies, is an English dancer and choreographer. She was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, and became…
Siobhan Davies, English dancer and choreographer
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher Uni…
Henry Louis Gates Jr., American historian, scholar, and journalist