Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a Finnish former hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and …
Arto Bryggare, Finnish hurdler and politician
Margaret Colin is an American actress. She is known for her roles as White House Communications Director Constance Spano in the sci-fi film Independence Day (1996), the originating…
Margaret Colin, American actress
Nicholas John Anstee is the former Lord Mayor of the City of London; he was the 682nd person to serve as mayor and his term was from 2009 to 2010. He served as Alderman for the War…
Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was…
Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician
John William Weller is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame in the late 1970s as the guitarist and principal singer and songwriter of the rock band the J…
Paul Weller, English singer, songwriter and musician
Jesus "Jesse" Manalastas Robredo was a Filipino politician who served as 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III f…
Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (died 2012)
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous acc…
Annette Bening, American actress
Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli–Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he…
Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (died 2011)
Uwe Rapolder is a German retired football player and manager.
Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
Michael Steven Stenhouse is an American former outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos from 1982-1984, the Minne…
Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
Eugene Belliveau is a Canadian former professional football defensive lineman.
Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player
Gun-Marie Fredriksson was a Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette, which she formed in 1986 with Per Gessle. The duo achieved international…
Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2019)
Steven Jay Israel is an American political commentator, lobbyist, author, bookseller, and former politician. He served as a U.S. representative from New York from 2001 to 2017. A m…
Steve Israel, American lawyer and politician
Theodore Martin McGinley is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom Married... with Children, Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom …
Ted McGinley, American actor
Gennadiy Valyukevich was a triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.
Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper (died 2019)
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl, better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and professional football lineman. He is best known for …
Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
Michael López-Alegría is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one Internatio…
Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian politician who served as the prime minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, as the chairman of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2005, and as the…
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
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)