Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Robert Charles Sweikert was an American racing driver, best known as the winner of the 1955 Indianapolis 500 and the 1955 National Championship, as well as the 1955 Midwest Sprint …
Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (born 1926)
Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson develo…
Thomas J
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his ps…
Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the titles of People's Artist of the RSFSR (1935) and People's Artist of …
Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (born 1875)
Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His composit…
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Richard Powell was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was not assisted in his musical development by Bud, his older and better known brother, but both played pred…
Richie Powell, American pianist (born 1931)
Thorleif Brinck Lund was a Norwegian stage and film actor of the silent film era.
Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (born 1880)
Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.
Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (born 1886)
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twen…
Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (born 1881)
Joseph Oscar Giard was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.
Joe Giard, American baseball player (born 1898)
John Blyth Hayes was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1923 to 1947. He was President of the Senate from 1938 to 1941. Before entering federal poli…
John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (born 1868)
James Alexander Calder was a Canadian politician.
James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (born 1868)
Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid h…
Jackson Pollock, American painter (born 1912)
Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath was a German politician, diplomat and convicted Nazi war criminal who served as Foreign Minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938.
Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1873)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by his stage name Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian–American actor. He was best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic …
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (born 1882)
Alfred Wagenknecht was an American Marxist activist and political functionary. He is best remembered for having played a critical role in the establishment of the Communist Party U…
Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (born 1881)
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had …
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chr…
Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1898)
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now…
Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (born 1894)
Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory …
Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (born 1894)
Witold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in general topology, algebraic topology and dimension theory. A graduate of the University of Vienna, Hurewicz moved to the Un…
Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904)
Lee Jung-seob was a Korean artist most known for his oil paintings, such as White Ox.
Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916)
Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words:…
C. B. Fry, English cricketer, academic, and politician (born 1872)
Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop, Jr., was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and Briti…
Billy Bishop, Canadian colonel and pilot (born 1894)