Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Robert Hunter Caldwell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He released several albums spanning R&B, soul, jazz, and adult contemporary, and was known for his soulful …
Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter (died 2023)
John Henry Childs is a former cricketer who played in two Test matches for England in 1988. At the age of 36 years 320 days, Childs became the oldest player since Dick Howorth in 1…
John Childs, English cricketer
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 A…
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian businessman and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (died 2010)
Richard Hunt was an American actor and puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. H…
Richard Hunt, American Muppet performer (died 1992)
Robert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series CSI: NY, and his appearances in the films Atlantic …
Robert Joy, Canadian actor
John Richard Deacon is an English retired musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits "You're My Best F…
John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine composer, record producer and musician. He is the recipient of numerous accolades for his works, including two Academy Awards for Best O…
Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Gregory Dale Bear was an American science fiction writer. His work covered themes of conflict, consciousness, and accelerated evolution. The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars establi…
Greg Bear, American author (died 2022)
The Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is a Baptist minister, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. A member of the Republican Party, He is the former …
DeForest Soaries, American minister and politician, 30th Secretary of State of New Jersey
Eric Antonio Goles Chacc is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied mathematical engineering at the University of Chile before earning two do…
Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
Glenn Hughes is an English musician, best known as the bassist and singer in the hard rock band Trapeze and as a member of Deep Purple in the lineups known to fans Mk. III and IV, …
Glenn Hughes, English musician
Yana Bland or Yana Bland Mintoff is a Maltese Labour politician, economist and educator. Mintoff was born on 21 August 1951, the daughter of the former Prime Minister of Malta, Dom…
Yana Mintoff, Maltese politician, economist and educator
Chesley V. Morton Jr. is an American stockbroker, securities arbitrator, and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Chesley V. Morton, American businessman and politician
Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the F…
Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (died 2004)
Noor Al Hussein is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who was the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriage o…
Queen Noor of Jordan
Danny Joe Brown was an American singer. He was the lead singer of the Southern rock group Molly Hatchet and was co-writer of the band's biggest hits from the late 1970s.
Danny Joe Brown, American southern rock singer-songwriter and musician (died 2005)
Mark Jeffery Anthony Hudson is an American musician, record producer, actor and songwriter based in both Los Angeles and New York City. After first rising to prominence as a perfor…
Mark Hudson, American record producer and musician
Jimmy Wayne Jamison was an American singer. Best known as Jimi Jamison, he earned recognition as the frontman for the rock bands Target, Cobra, and Survivor from 1984 to 1988, perf…
Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2014)
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years,…
Orson Scott Card, American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist of Cuban descent. During a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital, he lost his knowledge of…
Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (died 2013)
Robert John Arthur Halford is an English heavy metal singer. He is the lead vocalist of Judas Priest, which he joined in 1973, and has received accolades such as the 2010 Grammy Aw…
Rob Halford, English heavy metal singer-songwriter
William Wolf Handel is a Brazilian-born American radio host and attorney.
Bill Handel, Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host
Gerd Bonk was an East German weightlifter who was active from 1969 to 1980 who won silver at the 1976 Summer Olympics, bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and set three world recor…
Gerd Bonk, German weightlifter (died 2014)
Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist and a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes.
Bill Whitaker, American journalist