Explore 4242 historical events from 1950–1959.
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and former politician. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United State…
Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-…
Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer
Eduard Oja was an Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic. His father was a forest warden. Between 1919 and 1925 he studied at Tartu Teachers' College at Tartu Unive…
Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (born 1905)
Anders Peter Nielsen was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olymp…
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (born 1867)
Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittela…
Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law …
Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (born 1895)
Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in deve…
John Ernest Adamson, English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (born 1867)
George Murray Hulbert was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States Di…
George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881)
Esteban Terrades i Illa also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the phy…
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (born 1883)
Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, known as Vital Brazil, was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and immunologist, known for the discovery of the polyvalent anti-ophidic se…
Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (born 1865)
Belle da Costa Greene was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son…
Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (born 1883)
Daniel Ciugureanu was a Romanian politician from Bessarabia, deputy in Sfatul Țării from Chișinău, Prime Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic from 29 January [O.S. 16 Janu…
Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (born 1884)
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was a Salvadoran politician and physician who served as the 24th President of El Salvador from 1923 to 1927. He also served as the country's acting presiden…
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World W…
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883)
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Ke…
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish police officer and author (born 1904)
Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focu…
Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901)
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcro…
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating …
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent mo…
Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (born 1872)
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expre…
Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (born 1878)
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big b…
Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (born 1923)
Richard Fontaine Maury was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel B…
Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (born 1882)
Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings fr…
Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (born 1865)
Evangeline Cory Booth OF was a British evangelist and the fourth General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post.
Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (born 1865)