Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
Hugh Donell Green is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1991. He played college …
Hugh Green, American football player
Neil Caldwell King Jr. was an American journalist and author. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2002. His first book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory…
Neil King Jr., American journalist and author (died 2024)
William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Euro…
William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist
Sanjay Balraj Dutt is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema, and has also appeared in some Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films. He has…
Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
Ruud Janssen is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.
Ruud Janssen, Dutch blogger and illustrator
David Jeffrey LaPoint is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the manager of the Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New …
Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
John James Sykes was an English guitarist and singer, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang. He also fronted the hard rock group Blue Murder and r…
John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Yiannos Papantoniou is a former member of the National Parliament in Greece (MP) from 1988 to 2007, Minister of National Defense (2001−03), Minister of Economy and Finance (1994−20…
Yiannos Papantoniou, French-Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of National Defence
Mark Randall Meadows is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021 under the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party,…
Mark Meadows, American politician, Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff
Dirk Milton Graham is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was …
Dirk Graham, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Stanley Jordan is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.
Stanley Jordan, American guitarist, pianist, and songwriter
Andrew William Stevenson Marr is a Scottish journalist, author, broadcaster and presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator at The Scotsman, he subsequently edited T…
Andrew Marr, Scottish journalist and author
Kim James Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He focuses on film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dra…
Kim Newman, English journalist and author
James Francis Doughan is an American actor, teacher and writer. He is best known for his roles as Detective Doyle in The Mask (1994) and Detective Allen as well as the voice of Luc…
Jim Doughan, American actor
Victoria Jackson is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992.
Victoria Jackson, American actress and singer
Jonathan "Johnny" Kemp was a Bahamian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a songwriter in late 1979 and is perhaps best known for his solo work, includi…
Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2015)
Patricia Apollonia Kotero is an American actress, singer, and former model. She is known for co-starring in Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain and for having been the lead singer of th…
Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
Michael Thomas Gminski is an American former professional basketball player and a college basketball TV analyst for the ACC Network, ACC on The CW and CBS Sports. In 2003, Gminski,…
Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
Joseph Thomas Elliott is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of t…
Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Martin Clive Atkins is an English drummer, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface, and Killing Jo…
Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
John Christopher McGinley is an American actor. He plays Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Plato…
John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromo…
Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
Robbinson Lantz Crosby was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the US in the 1980s. Crosby died in 2002 from complica…
Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2002)
John Gormley is an Irish former Green Party politician who served as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from June 2007 to January 2011, Leader of the Green…
John Gormley, Irish politician, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government