Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Scott Raymond Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, …
Scott Adams, American author and illustrator (died 2026)
Randy John Read was a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor of protein crystallography at the University of Cambridge.
Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director. He played Arnold Poindexter in the first two Revenge of the Nerds films, Elliot Weston on the television series Thirtysomething,…
Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
Mohammad Javed Miandad, PP, SI, popularly known as Javed Miandad, is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and…
Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
Ronald Areshenkoff was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He was drafted in the second round, 32nd overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1977 NHL amateur draft. He played i…
Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American politician and lawyer who was the 75th governor of North Carolina from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 50th attorne…
Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
Bruce Flowers is an American former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.04 m tall, he played as a power forward. Flowers is one of the few American players to have won…
Bruce Flowers, American basketball player
Andrzej Morozowski is a Polish journalist, television personality and writer, connected with Radio ZET and TVN 24.
Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author
Dicky Thompson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.
Dicky Thompson, American golfer
Ian Buchanan is a Scottish television actor who has appeared on multiple American soap operas including General Hospital, Port Charles, The Bold and the Beautiful, All My Children,…
Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
Leeona June Dorrian, Lady Dorrian PC, KC is a Scottish advocate and judge who served as the Lord Justice Clerk from 2016 until her retirement from judicial office on 3 February 202…
Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian, Scottish lawyer and judge
Philip Ryan, professionally known as Philip Chevron, was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the Celtic punk b…
Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Brett Morgan Butler is an American former center fielder in Major League Baseball and coach. He played for five different teams from 1981 through 1997. A leadoff hitter for the maj…
Brett Butler, American baseball player and coach
Martin Dillon was an American musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (died 2005)
Uģis Prauliņš is a Latvian composer whose choral work Missa Rigensis was recorded by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, Youth Choir BALSIS and …
Uģis Prauliņš, Latvian composer
Miguel Ángel Lotina Oruechebarría is a Spanish professional manager and former footballer who played as a striker.
Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He h…
Richard Powers, American novelist
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. A leading figure of the S…
Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2003)
Jean Rabe was an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery. After a career as a newspaper reporter, she was employed by TSR, Inc. for several years as he…
Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas confli…
Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader
Leopold Löwenheim [ˈle:o:pɔl̩d ˈlø:vɛnhaɪm] was a German mathematician doing work in mathematical logic. The Nazi regime forced him to retire because under the Nuremberg Laws he wa…
Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (born 1878)
Ezio Fortunato Pinza was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metro…
Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (born 1892)
Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Ángel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE, best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, r…
Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and racing driver (born 1928)
Pieter Henricus van der Hoog, also known after converting to Islam as Mohammed Abdul-Ali, was a Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist. Born in The Hague, Van der Hoog…
Pieter van der Hoog, Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (born 1888)