Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Darrell Steven Griffith, also known by his nickname Dr. Dunkenstein, is an American former professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Utah Jazz of the Nati…
Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
Pierre Berbizier is a French former rugby union footballer and a current coach. His usual position was at scrum-half. He played 56 times for France.
Pierre Berbizier, French rugby player and coach
Eric Reed Boucher, known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, spoken word artist and political activist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San F…
Jello Biafra, American singer-songwriter and producer
Robert Thomas Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly brothers, alongside his brother Peter, who together are known for directin…
Bobby Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Ulrike Tauber is a retired medley and butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won the gold medal in the women's 400 m individual medley at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Qu…
Ulrike Tauber, German swimmer
Abu Sayyaf (ASG), officially known by the Islamic State as the Islamic State – East Asia Province, also known by its full name, Al Hamas Harakat Al Muqawamah Al Islamiyyah or simpl…
Warren Rodwell, Australian soldier, educator and musician
Sam Hamad is a Canadian politician. He is the former member of National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Louis-Hebert in the Quebec City region. A member of the Quebec Liberal Part…
Sam Hamad, Syrian-Canadian academic and politician
Jon Leibowitz is an American attorney who served as the 53rd chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a commiss…
Jon Leibowitz, American lawyer and politician
Daniel McVicar is an American actor, director and writer known for his work in European films and American television.
Daniel McVicar, American actor
Peter Altmaier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Acting Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2018 and as Federal Minister for Economic Affair…
Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
Gary Martin is a British actor. He is best known for voicing Sugar Puffs' mascot Honey Monster, Gnasher in the animated Dennis the Menace and Gnasher projects and Beast Man in the …
Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor
Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov is a Russian former professional ice hockey right wing. In the Soviet Union, Makarov played 11 championship seasons with CSKA Moscow, winning the Soviet…
Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
Bernadette Jean "Kelly" Johnson was an English guitarist and singer, widely known in the UK in the early 1980s as the lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Girlschool.
Kelly Johnson, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter (died 2007)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Secon…
Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (born 1872)
Frank Rowbotham Foster was an English amateur cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1908 to 1914, and in Test cricket for England in 1911 and 1912. He was …
Frank Foster, English cricketer (born 1889)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and gra…
Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (born 1920)
Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organise…
Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1880)
Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.
Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (born 1881)
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, was a prominent Indian historian and a specialist on the Mughal dynasty.
Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (born 1870)
William Archibald Scott Brown, known as Archie, was a British Formula One and sports car racing driver from Scotland who had a prodigious racing ability despite having the fingers …
Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (born 1927)
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly succe…
Ronald Colman, English actor (born 1891)
Francis Harry Rowe was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Social Services.
Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (born 1895)
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes…
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles…
Robert Donat, English actor (born 1905)