Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Bruce Brett Weber is an American former men's basketball coach who was most recently the head coach at Kansas State University. Prior to his tenure at Kansas State, Weber was the h…
Bruce Weber, American basketball player and coach
Daniel Francis Boyle is an English film director and producer. He has been described by the British Film Institute as "one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of British direct…
Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
Martin Taylor, MBE is a British jazz guitarist who has performed solo, in groups, guitar ensembles, and as an accompanist.
Martin Taylor, English guitarist
Michael Scott Tully is an American pole vaulter. He represented the United States twice in the Olympics, earning a silver in 1984, and held the American pole vault record from 1984…
Mike Tully, American pole vaulter
Adam Nawałka is a Polish professional football manager and former player. From 2013 to 2018, he was the head coach of the Poland national team.
Adam Nawałka, Polish football player and manager
Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress and writer. She starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role in The Force Awakens (2015)…
Carrie Fisher, American actress and screenwriter (died 2016)
Luis Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor. His career spans over 40 years and includes a number of films and television series. He has appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's films Boogie Nig…
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
Alejandro Kuropatwa was an Argentine photographer. Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology…
Alejandro Kuropatwa, Argentine photographer (died 2003)
Darrell Owen Pace is a former archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic and World Championships titles each during his career. In 2011, as part of the World Arc…
Darrell Pace, American archer
Dianne Elizabeth Reeves is an American jazz singer. Reeves has won five Grammy awards from a total nine nominations.
Dianne Reeves, American singer
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He first achieved mainstream attention in 1986 with the release of his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, E…
Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Stephen Leather is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton. He has written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock, and the BBC's…
Stephen Leather, British author
Stephen John Gumley, AO was the first Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation, serving in the role from February 2004 to July 2011.
Stephen Gumley, Australian engineer and businessman
Patty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of th…
Patty Sheehan, American golfer
Charalambos (Babis) Tsertos is a Greek musician. His sister is the singer Nadia Karagianni and his father was also a musician who played the mandolin. At the age of 17, he settled …
Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
Jeffrey Alan Merkley is an American politician who is the junior United States senator from Oregon. He was first elected to the Senate in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he…
Jeff Merkley, American businessman and politician
Margarita Wilson Hanks is an American actress, singer, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing Yo…
Rita Wilson, American actress and producer
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist, he was a member of the Expediency D…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
Volker Helmut Manfred Zotz is an eminent Austrian philosopher, religious studies scholar, Buddhologist and a prolific author.
Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
Wilfredo Gómez Rivera, sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and three weight world champion. He is frequently mentioned among the best Puer…
Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican-American boxer
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, is an English actress of stage and screen, and a narrator. She is known for her role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), for which she was nomi…
Juliet Stevenson, English actress
Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.
Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1895)
Günther Edward Arnold Schneider was an American actor of the stage and screen.
Edward Arnold, American actor (born 1890)
Fred Marriott was an American race car driver. In 1906, he set the world land speed record at 127.659 mph (205.5 km/h) at the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanley L…
Fred Marriott, American race car driver (born 1872)