Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Raj Babbar is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the R…
Raj Babbar, Indian actor and politician
Dianna Melrose is a British diplomat who has served as the British High Commissioner to Tanzania and as the British Ambassador to Cuba.
Dianna Melrose, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Tanzania
Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill KC (Hon) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromley and Chislehurst from 2…
Bob Neill, English lawyer and politician
Péter Erdő is a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who has served as the Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary since 2003. He was president of the Council …
Péter Erdő, Hungarian cardinal
Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international…
Graham Greene, Canadian actor
Brian Timothy Finn is a New Zealand singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He is best known as a founding member of Split Enz and for his work with his brother Neil, including…
Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Martin Gerschwitz is a German violinist, keyboardist, singer and composer.
Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Ellen Kristina Abelli Elander is a Swedish artist. She received her education at Birkagårdens folkhögskola between 1972 and 1973, and made her solo debut at Galleri Händer in Stock…
Kristina Abelli Elander, Swedish artist
Gordon McQueen was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre-back for St Mirren, Leeds United and Manchester United, in addition to the Scotland national team.
Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)
Olive Elaine Morris was a Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. At the age of …
Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (died 1979)
Simon Francis Mann was a British officer in the Special Air Service (SAS), and later a mercenary. He trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guard…
Simon Mann, British military officer and mercenary (died 2025)
Ahmet Enis Batur is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor.
Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author
Pietro Paolo Mennea, nicknamed la Freccia del Sud, was an Italian sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200 m event, winning a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympi…
Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (died 2013)
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor, diplomat, historian and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, a…
Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author
Athanassios Spyridon Fokas is a United Kingdom–based Greek academic, educator and scientist, with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he is Professor of N…
Athanassios S
Madan Kumar Bhandari was a Nepalese political leader. He was elected as the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Nepal, which fought for multiparty democracy and basic human…
Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (died 1993)
David Earl Garrison is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Steve Rhoades on the television series Married... with Children. He has also appeared in numerous …
David Garrison, American actor and singer
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
David Arkenstone is an American composer and performer. His music is primarily instrumental, with occasional vocalizations. Most of Arkenstone's music falls into the new age catego…
David Arkenstone, American composer and performer
Sir David Philip Lane is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the…
David Lane, English oncologist and academic
Stephen John Shutt is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1972 to 1985, 12 seasons for the Montreal Cana…
Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Timothy John Tobias was an American composer and musician. He died aged 54 of lymphoma.
Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006)
Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of h…
Sylvia Rivera, American transgender rights activist (died 2002)
Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin is a former Soviet Ukrainian race walker. Solomin competed in men's 20 km walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics and contended for the gold medal, but was di…
Anatoliy Solomin, Ukrainian race walker and coach