Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Sharon Patricia Maughan is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee, al…
Sharon Maughan, English actress
Adrian Năstase is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.
Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania
Greg Oliphant is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, a state and national representative halfback who made one Kangaroo tour. Oliphant played in the New Sout…
Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player
John D. Perdue is an American politician who served as the 24th West Virginia State Treasurer from 1997 to 2021. He is the latest Democratic candidate to receive more than 50% of t…
John Perdue, former West Virginia State Treasurer
Zenonas Petrauskas was a Lithuanian lawyer and deputy foreign minister of Lithuania (2004–2006). He was as an associate professor of international law. He was born in Čekiškė.
Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (died 2009)
Thomas Beach Alter was an Indian actor of American descent who worked in Indian cinema. He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008, he was awarded…
Tom Alter, Indian actor (died 2017)
Nancy Allen is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Go…
Nancy Allen, American actress
Robert Carlos Clarke was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait, and commercial photography.
Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish-born English photographer (died 2006)
Jan Jerzy Kulczyk was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments with headquarters …
Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (died 2015)
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country…
Mercedes Lackey, American author
Marcello Toninelli is an Italian comics writer, best known as main writer of series of Zagor between 1982 and 1993.
Marcello Toninelli, Italian author and screenwriter
Philip Fowke is an English pianist.
Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator
Mauricio José Rojas Mullor is a Chilean-Swedish politician and political economist, member of the Riksdag between 2002 and 2006. He served as Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritag…
Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician
Christopher Edward Speier is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop, most notably for the San Francisco Giants and the M…
Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach
Robert London is an American underground comix and mainstream comics artist. His style evokes the work of early American cartoonists such as George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Elz…
Bobby London, American illustrator
Donald James "Don" Moen is an American singer, songwriter, pastor, and producer of Christian worship music. A pioneer of the modern worship music movement, he served as a creative …
Don Moen, American singer and songwriter
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the m…
Michael Whelan, American artist
David Ernest Duke is an American former politician, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992,…
David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
Dame Lynne Janie Brindley is the former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, a post she held until June 2020. Prior to this appointment she was a professional librarian, and served …
Lynne Brindley, English librarian and academic
Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth, previously Hemsworth, since 1996. He was Shadow Lor…
Jon Trickett, English politician
Ewen John Chatfield is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country. He is also remembered …
Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
James Kenneth Hahn is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and an American former lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Hahn was elected the 40th mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served…
James Hahn, American judge and politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
Sir Philip Lee Craven is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the seco…
Philip Craven, English basketball player and swimmer
David Allan Jensen is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began as a radio DJ on Radio Luxembourg. Jensen was late…
David Jensen, Canadian-English radio and television host