Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Surv…
Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Sir Chris Ham, is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He was chief executive of the King's Fund from 2010 to 2018. He was professor of health policy…
Chris Ham, English political scientist and academic
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedo…
Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes is a British former politician. He is now the Chancellor of London South Bank University, and a strategic adviser to Talgo, a Spanish manufacturer of tr…
Simon Hughes, English lawyer and politician
Richard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an…
Richard Clapton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Howard Sundberg is an American former professional baseball player, television sports analyst, and executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1974 to 198…
Jim Sundberg, American baseball player and sportscaster
Angela Voigt, née Schmalfeld was an East German long jumper.
Angela Voigt, German long jumper (died 2013)
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name also refers to the company he founded.
Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has wo…
Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Janet Martin Soskice is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sh…
Janet Soskice, Canadian philosopher and theologian
Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones, with Johnny Ra…
Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (died 2001)
Richard Van Slater better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler who wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid-1990s for various promotions i…
Dick Slater, American wrestler (died 2018)
Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2020)
Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the United States senator from Idaho, a seat he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Crapo serv…
Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician
Alan Stuart Franken is an American politician, comedian, screenwriter, and actor who served from 2009 until his resignation in 2018 as a United States senator from Minnesota. A mem…
Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician
Adrian Hardiman was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (died 2016)
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders which he committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in L…
Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer and rapist
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, …
Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. He a…
Antonis Samaras, Greek economist and politician, 185th Prime Minister of Greece
Michael Robert Gale is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, film producer and director. He is best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film Back to the Future w…
Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
José Ramón Calderón Ramos is a Spanish lawyer who is the former President of Real Madrid. He got his Law Degree in the University of Navarra, Spain in 1974 and he worked in London,…
Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and businessman
Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champa…
Lou van den Dries, Dutch mathematician
Muhammed Ahmed Faris was a Syrian military aviator and astronaut. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space.
Muhammed Faris, Syrian military aviator and cosmonaut (died 2024)