Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
Stanley Alan Van Gundy is an American former basketball coach who is a television commentator for College Basketball on CBS for CBS Sports and NBA on Prime for Sports on Amazon Pri…
Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
Teresa Presmanes Corona, known professionally as Daniela Romo, is a Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess. During her career, she has sold 15 million records, making her one of th…
Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
Gerhard Berger is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1997. Berger won ten Formula One Grands Prix across 14 seasons…
Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
Juan Fernando Cobo Agudelo was a Colombian painter, illustrator, sculptor and cultural promoter, one of the most notable artists of his native region, Valle del Cauca.
Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
Denice Dee Denton was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Denice Denton, American engineer and academic (died 2006)
Frode Fjellheim is a Southern Saami yoiker and musician from Norway. He is best known for his band Transjoik and as the composer of the 2002 song "Eatnemen Vuelie", which was later…
Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer
András Petőcz is a Hungarian writer and poet.
András Petőcz, Hungarian author and poet
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal comm…
Jeanette Winterson, English journalist and novelist
Pak Chungyang was a Korean bureaucrat and politician in the Japanese colonial government. His art names were Haeak (해악) and Ilso (일소), and his courtesy name was Wongeun (원근). He al…
Bak Jungyang, Korean politician (born 1872)
General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the British First Army d…
Kenneth Anderson, English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (born 1891)
Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His f…
Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
Maria Zofia Dulęba was a Polish stage and film actress. She made her stage debut in 1902 and performed in a number of films, mostly in the silent era. She later taught drama.
Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (born 1881)
Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Ba…
Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (born 1907)
John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (born 1881)
Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important ro…
Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (born 1887)
Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trump…
Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1897)
Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal was the seventh and last child of Miguel I of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein.
Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (born 1862)
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignat…
John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (born 1888)
Philip Kassel was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in the German Empire. In 1904 he won the gold medal in the t…
Philip Kassel, American gymnast (born 1876)
Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the Frenc…
Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (born 1884)
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of A…
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
Zoltán Meskó de Széplak was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a …
Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (born 1883)
George Reeves was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Clark Kent/Superman in the television series Adventures of Superman (1952–1958).
George Reeves, American actor and director (born 1914)