Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw is an English radio broadcaster. She is one of the longest serving female national radio DJs in the UK, celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio…
Liz Kershaw, English radio broadcaster
Francis Morgan Ayodélé Thompson, is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event fo…
Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer
Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Secon…
Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (born 1872)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and gra…
Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (born 1920)
Frank Rowbotham Foster was an English amateur cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1908 to 1914, and in Test cricket for England in 1911 and 1912. He was …
Frank Foster, English cricketer (born 1889)
Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organise…
Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1880)
Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.
Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (born 1881)
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, was a prominent Indian historian and a specialist on the Mughal dynasty.
Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (born 1870)
William Archibald Scott Brown, known as Archie, was a British Formula One and sports car racing driver from Scotland who had a prodigious racing ability despite having the fingers …
Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (born 1927)
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly succe…
Ronald Colman, English actor (born 1891)
Francis Harry Rowe was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Social Services.
Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (born 1895)
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes…
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles…
Robert Donat, English actor (born 1905)
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.
Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and…
Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (born 1887)
Pál Maléter was a Hungarian military officer and notable figure in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who served as minister of defence in the third government of Imre Nagy.
Pál Maléter, Hungarian general and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (born 1917)
Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader o…
Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1895)
Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.
Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
George Washington F. Orton was a Canadian middle and long-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win a medal at an Olympic Games. He won a bronze in the 400 metr…
George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (born 1873)
Andrija Štampar was a distinguished scholar in the field of social medicine from Croatia.
Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (born 1888)
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, was a British landowner, barrister, Conservative politician and government minister, and colonial governor. He was Governor-General of New…
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1867)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was a Soviet and Russian writer and satirist.
Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (born 1895)
Otto Abraham Lasanen was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics and placed fourth at the 1914 unofficial European Cham…
Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (born 1891)