Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Bertrand Delanoë is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he previously served in the National Assembly …
Bertrand Delanoë, French politician, 14th Mayor of Paris
Paresh Rawal is an Indian actor film producer and former politician, known for his works primarily in Hindi films. Considered as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, he has ap…
Paresh Rawal, Indian actor, producer, and politician
Joshua Rufus Rozenberg KC (hon) is a British solicitor, legal affairs commentator, and journalist.
Joshua Rozenberg, English lawyer, journalist, and author
Gregory Neale Harrison is an American actor. He is known primarily for his roles as Dr. George Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates, the young surgeon assistant of Dr. Trapper John McIntyre on the…
Gregory Harrison, American actor
Christine Kurzhals was a German engineer and politician who served in the Bundestag from 1994 until her death in 1998. A member of the Social Democratic Party from Saxony, she was …
Christine Kurzhals, German politician (died 1998)
Edgar Savisaar was an Estonian politician, one of the founding members of Popular Front of Estonia and the Centre Party. He served as the acting Prime Minister of Estonia, Minister…
Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (died 2022)
Jean Chalopin is a French businessman, banker and former television animation producer. In 1971, he founded the production company DIC Entertainment, which specialized in children-…
Jean Chalopin, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded DIC Entertainment
Henry Perrin Beatty is a Canadian corporate executive and former politician, who served as a Progressive Conservative of the House of Commons from 1972 to 1993, and as a cabinet mi…
Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and politician
Charlene Marilynn Oliver, better known by the artist mononym Charlene, is an American easy-listening and R&B singer famous for the song "I've Never Been to Me", which, after its un…
Charlene, American singer-songwriter
Jean Denise Lambert is an English politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the London Region between 1999 and 2019.
Jean Lambert, English educator and politician
Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was described by Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today." His best-know…
Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)
Joanna Hall Gleason Sarandon is a Canadian-American actress and singer, known for her performances in theatrical musicals and plays, and on film and television.
Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić was a Serbian football coach and player.
Momčilo Vukotić, Serbian footballer and manager (died 2021)
Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
Frédéric François, Belgian singer-songwriter
Melissa Marie Mathison was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She wrote the screenplays for the films The Black Sta…
Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (died 2015)
Lawrence Francis Probst III is an American businessman who was CEO of video game publisher Electronic Arts from 1991 until 2007, and executive chairman from 2013 to 2015. He contin…
Larry Probst, American businessman
Susan Kay Quatro is an American-British singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, and actress. In the 1970s, she scored a string of singles that found success in Europe and Australia, wi…
Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Raymond Dumais was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada.
Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (died 2012)
Anders Peter Nielsen was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olymp…
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (born 1867)
Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittela…
Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
Eduard Oja was an Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic. His father was a forest warden. Between 1919 and 1925 he studied at Tartu Teachers' College at Tartu Unive…
Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (born 1905)
Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law …
Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (born 1895)
Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in deve…
John Ernest Adamson, English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (born 1867)
George Murray Hulbert was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States Di…
George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881)