Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
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
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
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
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
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
Avigdor Lieberman is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2022, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel fro…
Avigdor Lieberman, Moldavian-Israeli politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, who served as the eighth President of Comoros from 2006 to 2011. He is popularly known as 'Ayatolla…
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comorian businessman and politician, President of Comoros
Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Often being credited as one of the greatest musician…
Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation,…
Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
David Chalton Ancrum is an American former college and professional basketball player and coach. Ancrum played college basketball for Utica College. Subsequently, he had a professi…
David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
Elain Harwood Hon.FRIBA was a British architectural historian with Historic England and a specialist in post–Second World War English architecture.
Elain Harwood, English architectural historian (died 2023)
Yu Suzuki is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer and engineer who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years.
Yu Suzuki, Japanese game designer and producer
Meredith Ann Brooks is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A member of the Oregon music scene, she received international acclaim with her solo album Blurring the Edges (1…
Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Barry Michael Cooper was an American writer, producer, and director, best known for his screenplays for the films New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1994), and Above the Rim (1994),…
Barry Michael Cooper, American writer, producer and director (died 2025)
James Gurney is an American artist and author known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer's journal from an island u…
James Gurney, American artist and author
Nick Van Eede is an English musician. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 No. 1 power ballad "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" for his band Cutting Crew, which saw interna…
Nick Van Eede, English singer-songwriter
Wade Anthony Boggs, nicknamed "Chicken Man", is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Bosto…
Wade Boggs, American baseball player
Riccardo Paletti was an Italian motor racing driver. Paletti was killed when he crashed on the start grid in his second Formula One start.
Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (died 1982)