Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
John Cain was an Australian politician who served as the 34th Premier of Victoria. He was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and …
John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (born 1882)
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926,…
Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (born 1869)
Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.
Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957. He appeared wi…
Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (born 1892)
Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on Jewish and Romani women at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterili…
Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (born 1898)
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
David Garshen Bomberg was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.
David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (born 1890)
Mait Metsanurk was an Estonian writer who led the neo-realist school of Estonian literature.
Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (born 1879)
Robert Nelson "Old Poison" Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey Le…
Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1902)
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (born 1888)
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as…
Ronald Knox, English Catholic priest (born 1888)
Mary Proctor was a British-American popularizer of astronomy. While not a professional astronomer, Proctor became well known for her books and articles written for the public – par…
Mary Proctor, American astronomer (born 1862)
Heino Wilhelm Daniel Kaski was a Finnish composer, teacher and pianist.
Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (born 1885)
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with h…
Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865)
Haakon VII was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957.
Haakon VII of Norway (born 1872)
Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (born 1885)
Arthur Powell Davies was an English and American minister and theologian. He served as the minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. from 1944 until his death in …
Arthur Powell Davies, American minister and author (born 1902)
Luis Cluzeau Mortet was a Uruguayan composer and musician.
Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (born 1888)
Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda was a Turkish civil servant and politician of Albanian descent who was acting President of Turkey for one day after Atatürk's death in November 1938.
Abdülhalik Renda, Turkish civil servant, politician, and sixth Turkish Minister of National Defence (born 1881)
Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of …
Karl Genzken, German physician and convicted war criminal (born 1885)
Arie de Jong was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Neth…
Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (born 1865)
John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial Coll…
John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (born 1887)
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott.
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (born 1884)
Michális Dórizas was a Greek athlete who competed in throwing events at the 1906, 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the javelin throw in 1908 and a bronze in …
Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (born 1890)