Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Sonia Manzano is an American actress, writer and speaker. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015. She received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy A…
Sonia Manzano, American actress
Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British former politician and trade unionist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East between 1983 and 2024. He represented the…
Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Gerd Zewe is a German former football player and manager.
Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. Previous…
Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop and theologian
Uğur Erdener is a Turkish physician specialized in ophthalmology and professor at the Hacettepe University, Ankara. He is currently a member of the International Olympic Committee,…
Uğur Erdener, Turkish ophthalmologist and professor
Juliana Jocelyn Azumah-Mensah is a Ghanaian politician and nurse. She was the Minister for Women and Children's Affairs. She is also the Member of Parliament for Ho East constituen…
Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Ghanaian nurse and politician
Denis George Mahan, better known as Deney Terrio, is an American choreographer and hosted the television musical variety series Dance Fever from 1979 to 1987.
Deney Terrio, American choreographer and television host
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian billionaire businessman and steel magnate. He is the executive chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world's second largest steelmaking company, as well …
Lakshmi Mittal, Indian-English businessman
Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian actor, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 350 films, mostly in Hindi and Bengali langua…
Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor and politician
Michel Clair is an administrator and former politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1985 and …
Michel Clair, Canadian lawyer and politician
Jerry James Petrowski is a retired American Republican politician and a former ginseng, dairy, and beef farmer from Marathon County, Wisconsin. He represented Marathon County for 2…
Jerry Petrowski, American politician and farmer
Roderick Morris Buckenham de'Ath was a Welsh musician, best known for his role as drummer with Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher in the 1970s.
Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (died 2014)
Annelie Ehrhardt was an East German hurdler. She won the gold medal in the inaugural 100 metre hurdles event at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, West Germany, setting a new…
Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
Michael Owen Johanns is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Nebraska from 2009 to 2015. He served as the 38th governor of Nebraska from 1…
Mike Johanns, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture
Jackie Leven was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician. After starting his career as a folk musician in the late 1960s, he first found success with new wave band Doll by Doll. He…
Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Neil Asher Silberman is an American archaeologist and historian with a special interest in biblical archaeology. He is the author of several books, including The Hidden Scrolls, Th…
Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
Ann Dustin Wilson is an American singer best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart.
Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki, also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007. He served as the prime minister of Iraq…
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq
Eduard Oja was an Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic. His father was a forest warden. Between 1919 and 1925 he studied at Tartu Teachers' College at Tartu Unive…
Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (born 1905)
Anders Peter Nielsen was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olymp…
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (born 1867)
Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittela…
Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law …
Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (born 1895)
Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in deve…
John Ernest Adamson, English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (born 1867)
George Murray Hulbert was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States Di…
George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881)