Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
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)
Claire Lee Chennault was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.
Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (born 1893)
Eino Sakari Kaila was a Finnish philosopher, critic and teacher. He worked in numerous fields including psychology, physics and theater, and attempted to find unifying principles b…
Eino Kaila, Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (born 1890)
Peter John Collins was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Collins won three Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, …
Peter Collins, English race car driver (born 1931)
Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciat…
Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis was an American children's writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (born 1892)
Joseph Franklin Demaree was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors for the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants (1939–41), Bos…
Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (born 1910)
Francis J. "Mickey" McCormick was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at St. Norbert College from 1934 to 1942 and at Carroll…
Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (born 1903)
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radio…
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Jacob Mironovich Lomakin was a Soviet diplomat, journalist and economist.
Jacob M. Lomakin, Soviet Consul General in New York City, journalist and economist (born 1904)
Arthur George Fox was an English-American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (born 1878)
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape in a spare Post-Impressionist style.
Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (born 1876)
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symp…
Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (born 1872)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope se…
Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)