Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest publ…
Dorothy Straight, American children's author
Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a Finnish former hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and …
Arto Bryggare, Finnish hurdler and politician
Margaret Colin is an American actress. She is known for her roles as White House Communications Director Constance Spano in the sci-fi film Independence Day (1996), the originating…
Margaret Colin, American actress
Nicholas John Anstee is the former Lord Mayor of the City of London; he was the 682nd person to serve as mayor and his term was from 2009 to 2010. He served as Alderman for the War…
Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London
Floyd "Chip" Ganassi Jr. is an American businessman, former racing driver, current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. He has been involved with the N…
Chip Ganassi, American race car driver, team owner and businessman
John William Weller is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame in the late 1970s as the guitarist and principal singer and songwriter of the rock band the J…
Paul Weller, English singer, songwriter and musician
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was…
Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician
Jesus "Jesse" Manalastas Robredo was a Filipino politician who served as 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III f…
Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (died 2012)
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous acc…
Annette Bening, American actress
Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli–Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he…
Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (died 2011)
Uwe Rapolder is a German retired football player and manager.
Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
Michael Steven Stenhouse is an American former outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos from 1982-1984, the Minne…
Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
Eugene Belliveau is a Canadian former professional football defensive lineman.
Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player
Gun-Marie Fredriksson was a Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette, which she formed in 1986 with Per Gessle. The duo achieved international…
Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2019)
Steven Jay Israel is an American political commentator, lobbyist, author, bookseller, and former politician. He served as a U.S. representative from New York from 2001 to 2017. A m…
Steve Israel, American lawyer and politician
Michael López-Alegría is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one Internatio…
Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Theodore Martin McGinley is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom Married... with Children, Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom …
Ted McGinley, American actor
Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian politician who served as the prime minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, as the chairman of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2005, and as the…
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
Gennadiy Valyukevich was a triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.
Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper (died 2019)
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl, better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and professional football lineman. He is best known for …
Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
Avigdor Lieberman is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2022, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel fro…
Avigdor Lieberman, Moldavian-Israeli politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, who served as the eighth President of Comoros from 2006 to 2011. He is popularly known as 'Ayatolla…
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comorian businessman and politician, President of Comoros
Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Often being credited as one of the greatest musician…
Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
David Chalton Ancrum is an American former college and professional basketball player and coach. Ancrum played college basketball for Utica College. Subsequently, he had a professi…
David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach