Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Kevin Rowland is a British singer and musician best known as the frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners. The band had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable be…
Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. is an American attorney, politician, and former judge who was the U.S. representative from Texas's 1st congressional district from 2005 to 2023. Gohmert is…
Louie Gohmert, American captain, lawyer, and politician
Marvin Isley was an American musician best known as the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist.
Marvin Isley, American R&B bass player and songwriter (died 2010)
Gerry Bertier was a high school American football player and Paralympian. He became known for his participation on the 1971 Virginia State Champion football T. C. Williams High Sch…
Gerry Bertier, American football player (died 1981)
Peter Horton is an American actor and director. He played Professor Gary Shepherd on the television series Thirtysomething from 1987 until 1991.
Peter Horton, American actor and director
James Michael Jackson, known as Mike Jackson is a Republican former member of the Texas Senate representing the 11th District. He was also the President pro tempore of the Texas Se…
Mike Jackson, American politician
James Trenton, nicknamed "the Poorman", is an American radio broadcaster. He is best known as the creator and host of Loveline on KROQ-FM in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993. He curre…
Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
Leroy O'Neil Jackson Jr., known by his stage name Leroy Burgess, is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, arranger and record producer.
Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
Ivan Stang is an American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding…
Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director
Paul Ellering is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler.
Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler, and manager
Bobby G, also known as Bobby Gee, is a member of pop group Bucks Fizz, best known for winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest and for achieving three UK number one hits with "Maki…
Bobby G, English singer-songwriter
Samuel Robert Torrance is a Scottish former professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s,…
Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer and sportscaster
General David John Hurley is an Australian viceregal officeholder and military officer. A senior officer in the Australian Army, he served as the 27th governor-general of Australia…
David Hurley, Australian general and politician, 27th Governor General of Australia
Andrea Saltelli is an Italian scholar specializing in quantification using statistical and sociological tools. He has extended the theory of sensitivity analysis to sensitivity aud…
Andrea Saltelli, Italian statistician and sociologist
Patrick Gerald Walter Sharkey is a former Northern Irish international footballer.
Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
Thomas Charles Berryhill was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors from January 7, 2019, until his death. He previously r…
Tom Berryhill, American businessman and politician (died 2020)
Aleksandar Živojinović, known professionally as Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band with drummer…
Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist and novelist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive …
Joan Smith, English journalist and author
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare is a Swedish and American actor. He rose to prominence in Sweden for playing Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman in his 1988 production of the play, and in America…
Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright
Ditmar Jakobs is a German former footballer who played as a defender. He played as a centre-back, a classical libero in the mold of Franz Beckenbauer or Willi Schulz.
Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
Tõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.
Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
David Douglas Boaz was a libertarian author, philosopher and editor. He was a distinguished senior fellow and the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libert…
David Boaz, American businessman and author
Richard Mark Harding is a former rugby union international who played for England, and on his last test captained them. He also played club rugby for his home city of Bristol and w…
Richard Harding, English rugby union player
James Quesada is a Nicaraguan American Anthropologist and professor at San Francisco State University's Department of Anthropology.. His work focuses on cultural and medical anthro…
James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic