Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Christopher Carl Carter is an American television and film producer, director and writer. Born in Bellflower, California, Carter graduated with a degree in journalism from Californ…
Chris Carter, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Sinan Sakić was a Serbian pop-folk singer.
Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (died 2018)
Joseph Anthony Toal is a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop. On 29 April 2014 he was named by Pope Francis as the fifth Bishop of Motherwell, having served as Bishop of Argyll and the …
Joseph Toal, Scottish bishop
Christopher Edward Bangle is an American automobile designer. Bangle is known best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group, where he was responsible for the BMW, MINI and Rol…
Chris Bangle, American automotive designer
Ümit Besen is a Turkish musical artist. He started his professional career by playing keyboards and singing with his band at the local clubs in Adana, Southern Turkey. While he was…
Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter
Beth Daniel is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 33 LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. She i…
Beth Daniel, American golfer
Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award, the Branford Boase…
Meg Rosoff, American-English author
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah was a Bangladeshi poet noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is considered one of the leading Bengali poets of the 1970s. He received Munir…
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (died 1992)
Jennell Allyn Jaquays was an American game designer, video game artist, and illustrator of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). Her notable works include the Dungeons & Dragons modu…
Jennell Jaquays, American game designer (died 2024)
Marin Alsop is an American conductor. She is the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music…
Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
Johnny Chavis, nicknamed "the Chief", is an American college football coach who was most recently the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Birmingham Stallions of th…
John Chavis, American football player and coach
Fran Cosmo is an American rock vocalist and guitarist. He was a member of the Boston offshoot band Orion the Hunter from 1983–1985. He later became the official lead vocalist for B…
Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission speci…
Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
Patrick Lloyd McCrory is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously…
Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
Kenneth Arlington Morrow is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and author. He was a member of the 1980 USA Olympic Miracle on Ice hockey team. He is currently se…
Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player and executive
Stephen R. Palumbi is an American zoologist who is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University at Hopkins Marine Station. He also holds a Se…
Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
Craig Michael Bartlett is an American animator. He wrote, directed, created, and produced the Nickelodeon television series Hey Arnold! and the PBS Kids television series Dinosaur …
Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
James Matthes Talent is an American politician who was a U.S. senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician
Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 1 in women's singles for 332 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 seven times,…
Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
Stephen James Doocy is an American television host, political commentator, and author. He currently serves as a traveling co-host of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel.
Steve Doocy, American journalist and author
Elena Anatolyevna Garanina is a former ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union. With Igor Zavozin, she is the 1978 Nebelhorn Trophy and 1981 Winter Universiade champion. They n…
Elena Garanina, Soviet ice dancer and coach
Grover Glenn Norquist is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increas…
Grover Norquist, American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform
Didier Maurice Theys is a Belgian sports car driver. He is a two-time overall winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona ; a winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring (1998); the Sports Racing Prot…
Didier Theys, Belgian race car driver and coach
Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disea…
Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (died 2003)