Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
John Alan Redwood, Baron Redwood is a British politician and academic who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham in Berkshire from 1987 to 2024. A member of the Conservati…
John Redwood, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
Roberto Carlos Durán Samaniego is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: Lightweight, welterweig…
Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
Joseph Charles John Piscopo is an American actor, comedian, and conservative radio talk show host. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, where he played a …
Joe Piscopo, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager is a Kuwaiti journalist, businessman, and politician.
Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
Miriam Flynn is an American voice and character actress. She is best known as Cousin Catherine in the National Lampoon's Vacation films and Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time…
Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian
Ian Richard Hargreaves CBE is professor emeritus at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic
Stephen Donald Hopper is a Western Australian botanist. He graduated in biology, specialising in conservation biology and vascular plants. Hopper has written eight books, and has o…
Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic
Gyula Sax was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and international arbiter.
Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (died 2014)
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2…
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)
Francesco Moser, nicknamed "Lo sceriffo", is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He finished on the podium of the Giro d'Italia six times, including his win in the 1…
Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
Sheila Ann Manson McLean is International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine and director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the School of Law o…
Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet, born in 1951. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he…
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and academic
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona a Portuguese army officer and politician who served as president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. Before his presidency, he served as…
Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (born 1869)
Teressa Claire "Tress" MacNeille is an American voice actress. She is known for voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series Animaniacs and its revival, Babs Bunny on Tiny …
Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
Ivanoe Bonomi was an Italian politician and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1921 to 1922 and again from 1944 to 1945.
Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1873)
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius af…
Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)
Jules Berry was a French actor.
Jules Berry, French actor and director (born 1883)
Charles Gates Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for h…
Charles G
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in both atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students fo…
Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868)
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)
Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems, and differential geometry. He also made signi…
Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (born 1869)
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Acad…
Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
Thomas N. Heffron was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada, He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanho…
Thomas N
Paula Preradović, known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was an Austrian writer and poet of Croatian and Serbian descent.
Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (born 1887)