Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Marion Caspers-Merk is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was a member of the Bundestag, representing Lörrach – Müllheim, and Parli…
Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician
Johannes Hendrikus Hubert "John" de Mol Jr. is a Dutch media proprietor. De Mol is one of the men behind production companies Endemol and Talpa. He created the reality television f…
John de Mol Jr
Margaret Mary Moran is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Moran was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South from the 1997 general election to 2010. In No…
Margaret Moran, British politician and criminal
Guy Nève de Mevergnies, commonly known as Guy Nève, was a Belgian racing driver. He was the younger brother of fellow racer Patrick Nève, who he had competed with and against.
Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (died 1992)
Olivia Twenty Dahl was the oldest child of the author Roald Dahl and the American actress Patricia Neal. She died at the age of seven from encephalitis caused by measles, before a …
Olivia Dahl (died 1962), daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal
Donald Roy Pettit is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the Space Cup, which received the first…
Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on…
Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she is known for portraying brittle, neurotic women in independent film. She…
Judy Davis, Australian actress
Eamon Gilmore is an Irish diplomat and former Labour Party politician. He has served as European Union Special Representative for Human Rights since February 2019. He has also been…
Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
Michael O'Keefe is an American actor known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum in The Great Santini, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award f…
Michael O'Keefe, American actor
William Michael Osborne is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, Osborne represented Wanganui and Waikato at a provincial level. Started his clu…
Bill Osborne, New Zealand rugby player
Américo Rubén "El Tolo" Gallego is an Argentine football coach and former player. As a midfielder, he played 73 times for the Argentina national team during his playing career.
Américo Gallego, Argentinian footballer and coach
Parviz Parastui is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor–making him the only actor to have four wins in that category–f…
Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor and singer
Zev Siegl is an American keynote speaker and presenter. He co-founded Starbucks, with Gordon Bowker and Jerry Baldwin, in 1971, and was a director of the company during its first d…
Zev Siegl, American businessman, co-founded Starbucks
Kurt Bodewig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2009, representing the Neuss I district. From 2…
Kurt Bodewig, German politician
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman fr…
Eric Schmidt, American engineer and businessman
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020. He serve…
Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (died 2020)
Edwin Jobson is an English musician who has been a member of several rock bands including Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also part of Frank Zappa's band in 1…
Eddie Jobson, English keyboard player and violinist
Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, several characters in the American Horror Sto…
Leslie Jordan, American actor, comedian, writer and singer (died 2022)
Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew is an American actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager and Red in Orange Is the New Bla…
Kate Mulgrew, American actress
Nicolas Jacques André Hulot is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group esta…
Nicolas Hulot, French journalist and environmentalist
David James Tyson Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, PC is a British judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2023. He has also served as a Lord Ju…
David Kitchin, English lawyer and judge
Pradeep Sarkar was an Indian director and screenwriter, best known for directing Parineeta (2005). He was a recipient of the Abby Award, Rapa Award, and the National Film Award. Hi…
Pradeep Sarkar, Indian director and screenwriter (died 2023)
Zlatko Topčić is a Bosnian screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He has written a number of films, including: Remake, The Abandoned, Miracle in Bosnia; theater plays: Time Out, I …
Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian writer and screenwriter