Explore 4242 historical events from 1950–1959.
Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award fo…
Sela Ward, American actress
Mel Harris is an American actress best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe nomina…
Mel Harris, American actress
Pauli Antero "Pate" Mustajärvi was a Finnish rock singer. He was known as the vocalist, frontman and until his death in late 2025 the only original member of Popeda as well as a so…
Pate Mustajärvi, Finnish rock singer (died 2025)
Sandra Faye "Sandi" Patty is an American Christian music singer, known for her wide soprano vocal range and expressive flexibility.
Sandi Patty, American singer and pianist
Mario Melvin Soto is a Dominican former pitcher, mostly as a starter, for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 through 1988. He currently works in the Reds'…
Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
Mark "The Animal" Mendoza is an American bassist and a former member of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He joined the band in 1978 after leaving the Dictators. He briefly play…
Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1988. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed light heavyweigh…
Michael Spinks, American boxer
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distingu…
Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist, songwriter, and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the …
Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1980)
Nicholas Paul Harberd an Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. He was previously Sibthorpian Professor and se…
Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician
Barry James Melrose is a Canadian–American retired broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player and head coach. Melrose played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and Na…
Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
Stephen Charles Mortimer, also nicknamed "Turvey", is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played as a halfback. Mortimer played a Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs club re…
Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
Joseph Satriani is an American rock guitarist, composer, record producer, and songwriter. Early in his career, he worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students ac…
Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wayne Taylor is a South African sports car racing driver and team owner. He won the 1996 and 2005 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototy…
Wayne Taylor, South African racing driver
Julie Isabel Bishop is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018. She wa…
Julie Bishop, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bryan John Trottier is a Canadian and American former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders and Pittsb…
Bryan Trottier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laborator…
Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)
Anthony Robert Kushner is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony A…
Tony Kushner, American playwright and screenwriter
Paul Thomas Cook is an English musician, best known as the drummer and a founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is nicknamed "Cookie" by friends in the punk musi…
Paul Cook, English drummer
Thomas "Tommy" N'Kono is a Cameroonian former professional footballer. One of the greatest goalkeepers from the continent of Africa, he was mainly associated with Espanyol, whom he…
Thomas N'Kono, Cameroonian footballer
Peter Eric James Prentice was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons…
Jim Prentice, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)
Michael Joseph Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense atto…
Michael Connelly, American author
Michael Pointer is an English drummer. He is known for his work in the neo-prog bands Marillion and Arena.
Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer
Scott Douglas Sanderson was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, New York Ya…
Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2019)