Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Joel Norman Quenneville is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nick…
Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Wendie Jo Sperber was an American actress, known for her performances in the films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Bachelor Party (1984), and Back to the Future (1985), as well as t…
Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (died 2005)
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 2000. He later became a pitching coa…
Orel Hershiser, American baseball player and coach
Neville Southall is a Welsh football manager and former international footballer. He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation. He won the FWA Footballer …
Neville Southall, Welsh footballer and manager
Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and professional poker player. Known for her distinctive breathy voice and comedic timing, she began her career with small parts in film and t…
Jennifer Tilly, American actress and poker player
Ivan Janša, better known as Janez Janša, is a Slovenian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Slovenia since 2026, a position he previously held from 2004 to 2008, from 20…
Janez Janša, Slovenian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Slovenia
Thomas David Waddell was a Scottish Major League Baseball pitcher. One of only eight Scotland natives to ever be a major league ballplayer, he pitched for the Cleveland Indians fro…
Tom Waddell, Scottish-American baseball player (died 2019)
John William Aldridge is a former footballer and manager. Nicknamed "Aldo", he was a prolific, record-breaking striker. His tally of 329 Football League goals is the sixth-highest …
John Aldridge, English-Irish footballer and manager
Jeffrey Lynn Bostic is an American former professional football player who was a center for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college footbal…
Jeff Bostic, American football player and commentator
Winston Walter Davis is a West Indian former cricketer. He was a part of the West Indian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Winston Davis, Vincentian cricketer
Derek Raymond Pringle is a Kenyan-born English former Test and One Day International cricketer for England, and is now a cricket journalist. He was a part of the English squads whi…
Derek Pringle, Kenyan-English cricketer and journalist
Martin Anthony Lunde, better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is an American retired professional wrestler, professional wrestling road agent, and author. Although he is widely…
Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)