Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
Ashok Gehlot is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1998 to December 2003, then again from 2008 to December 2013, and later from 2018 to Decembe…
Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Colin Bass is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 1979, he has been a member of the British progressive rock band Camel, who, after a ten-year hiatus…
Colin Bass, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of …
Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (died 1990)
Philip James Bailey is an American singer, songwriter and percussionist, best known as an early member and one of the two lead singers of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. Noted for his…
Philip Bailey, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
Michael Andrew D'Antoni is an American-Italian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as a coaching advisor for the New Orleans Pelicans of the Na…
Mike D'Antoni, American basketball player and coach
Charton Christopher Frantz is an American musician and record producer. He is the drummer for both Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, both of which he co-founded with wife and Talking…
Chris Frantz, American drummer and producer
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Surv…
Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Sir Chris Ham, is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He was chief executive of the King's Fund from 2010 to 2018. He was professor of health policy…
Chris Ham, English political scientist and academic
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedo…
Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Allison Mills, also known as Alley Bean, is an American actress, known for her roles on television. She starred as Norma Arnold, in the coming-of-age ABC comedy series, The Wonder …
Alley Mills, American actress
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor.…
Joy Harjo, American poet, musician, playwright and author, 23rd United States Poet Laureate
Edward Michael Stelmach is a Canadian politician who served as the 13th premier of Alberta, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on…
Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta
George Matthew Karl is an American former professional basketball coach and player. After spending five years as a player for the San Antonio Spurs, he became an assistant with the…
George Karl, American basketball player and coach
Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes is a British former politician. He is now the Chancellor of London South Bank University, and a strategic adviser to Talgo, a Spanish manufacturer of tr…
Simon Hughes, English lawyer and politician
Richard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an…
Richard Clapton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Angela Voigt, née Schmalfeld was an East German long jumper.
Angela Voigt, German long jumper (died 2013)
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name also refers to the company he founded.
Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has wo…
Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Janet Martin Soskice is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sh…
Janet Soskice, Canadian philosopher and theologian
James Howard Sundberg is an American former professional baseball player, television sports analyst, and executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1974 to 198…
Jim Sundberg, American baseball player and sportscaster
Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones, with Johnny Ra…
Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (died 2001)
Richard Van Slater better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler who wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid-1990s for various promotions i…
Dick Slater, American wrestler (died 2018)
Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2020)