Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Colm Joseph Feore is a Canadian actor. A 15-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is known in Canada for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the CBC mi…
Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
Laslon "Lash" Steven Huffman is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray is best known for his seven-year tenure with World …
Stevie Ray, American wrestler
Julio César Franco Robles is a Dominican former professional baseball infielder and coach. He spent most of his playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB), entering the major le…
Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player and manager
Steven Robert Guttenberg is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for playing Carey Mahoney in the Police Academy films from 1984 to 1987. He …
Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer
Christian Jules LeBlanc is an American television actor. He is best known for playing the role of Michael Baldwin on The Young and the Restless. He has received thirteen Daytime Em…
Christian LeBlanc, American actor
Jan Nevens is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. Nevens won the 8th stage of the 1992 Tour de France. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 …
Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut. He is a veteran of six spaceflights, including two long-duration missions to Mir, two short-d…
Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
Vernon Alphonsus Reid is a British-born American guitarist, producer, and songwriter best known as the founder of the rock band Living Colour. Reid was named No. 66 on Rolling Ston…
Vernon Reid, English-born American guitarist and songwriter
Timothy Walter Burton is an American filmmaker, and former animator. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blen…
Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Tom Lanoye is a Belgian novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area, and makes regular appea…
Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), representing the 44 police forces of Engl…
Hugh Orde, British police officer
Deborah Anne Norville is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is a former anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she h…
Deborah Norville, American journalist and game show host
Sir Lenworth George Henry is a British comedian, actor, presenter and writer. He gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, becoming…
Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (died 2009)
Dame Karen Patricia Buck is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North, and previously Regent's Park and Kensington North, from 1…
Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
Francis John Fraschilla is an American ESPN basketball commentator. He is also a former college basketball coach for 23 years, whose teams when he was head coach had an aggregate r…
Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Muriel Janet Gray is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist. She came to public notice as an interviewer on Channel 4's alternative pop-show The Tube, and then appeared as a…
Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). She w…
Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (died 2006)
Peter Tunks is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitoh…
Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Serge Blanco is a former rugby union rugby player who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback. His alternative …
Serge Blanco, Venezuelan-French rugby player and businessman
Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell is a Church of England bishop. Since 9 July 2020, he has been the Archbishop of York and Primate of England; the second-most senior bishop of the church a…
Stephen Cottrell, English bishop
Lynne Janice Kosky was an Australian politician and senior minister in the Government of Victoria. She represented the electoral district of Altona in the Victorian Legislative Ass…
Lynne Kosky, Australian social worker and politician (died 2014)
Jacqueline Nina Hewitt is an American astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover an Einstein ring. She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer
Marzio Innocenti is a former Italian rugby union player and coach and current sports director. He played as a flanker and a number 8. Since 21 March 2021 he's the president of the …
Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach