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|footer=Clockwise from top left: A Convair B-36 Peacemaker from the 7th Bombardment Wing crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb; PLA soldiers marching toward Tibet in the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China; Puerto Rican flag removed by a member of the National Guard after the 1950 Jayuya Uprising; Bhumibol Adulyadej at his coronation, on a royal procession; Memorials to the miners who died in the Knockshinnoch disaster; Bodies of the Hill 303 massacre victims gathered near Waegwan, South Korea.; Summary execution of South Korean political prisoners by the South Korean military after the Bodo League massacre; refugees during the Korean War. }}

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Events

= January =

{{Main|January 1950}}

  • January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.{{Cite web |title=IPA - History of the IPA |url=https://www.ipa-international.org/history/The-IPA-is-founded/142963 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=www.ipa-international.org}}
  • January 5Sverdlovsk plane crash: Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 aboard are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=102155|title=Athletes – Famous Olympic Athletes, Medalists, Sports Heroes|date=May 9, 2017}}
  • January 6 – The UK recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
  • January 7 – A fire in the St Elizabeth's Ward of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, United States, kills 41 patients.{{cite book|author=Iowa. Inspection Bureau|title=Mercy Hospital, St. Elizabeth's Ward Building Fire: Davenport, Iowa, January 7, 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SEmyQEACAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Iowa Inspection Bureau}}
  • January 9 – The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.

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= February =

{{Main|February 1950}}

  • February 1Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as president of the Republic of China.
  • February 6
  • In West Virginia, 372,000 coal miners strike (they remain out until March 3).[http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs2203.pdf West Virginia Historical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829035647/http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs2203.pdf |date=August 29, 2019 }} (retrieved August 26, 2018)
  • The first Cabinet Secretary (N.R. Pillai) is appointed in India.
  • February 8
  • The Stasi is founded in East Germany, and acts as a secret police until 1990.
  • A payment is first made by Diners Club card, in New York, United States (the first use of a charge card).{{Cite web |title=Diners Club International Celebrates 75 Years |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/diners-club-international/2025/02/14/diners-club-international-celebrates-75-years/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=April 2025}}
  • February 11
  • Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
  • Finland recognizes Indonesia.
  • February 12
  • The European Broadcasting Union is founded.{{Cite web |title=The EBU - European Broadcasting Union formed |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/the-ebu |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}
  • Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
  • February 13British Columbia B-36 crash: The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried a Mark 4 nuclear bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-13 |title=Today in Aviation History: First Broken Arrow Incident - Vintage Aviation News |url=https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/today-in-aviation-history/today-in-aviation-history-first-broken-arrow-incident.html |access-date=2025-04-05 |language=en-US}}
  • February 14Cold War:
  • The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty (terminated in 1979).
  • In an election speech at Edinburgh, Winston Churchill proposes "a parley at the summit" with Soviet leaders, the first use of the term "summit" for such a meeting.{{cite book|first=David|last=Kynaston|author-link = David Kynaston|title=Austerity Britain 1945–51|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7475-7985-4|page=385}}
  • February 15Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected president of Finland.
  • February 19Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany, to begin unification.
  • February 21Cunard liner Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century.
  • February 231950 United Kingdom general election: The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, remains in office, but the Tories, led by Winston Churchill, increase their seats in the House of Commons.
  • February – The Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery of the United Nations is formally inaugurated with its first meeting at Lake Success in February 1950.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 323-324

= March =

{{Main|March 1950}}

  • March 1
  • Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.
  • Acting Chinese President Li Zongren ends his term in office.
  • Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese president, after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan.
  • March 3 – Poland indicates its intention to exile all Germans.
  • March 8 – The first Volkswagen Type 2 (also known as the Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
  • March 12 – A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives.
  • March 13Royal Question: Belgian monarchy referendum, 1950 – In Belgium, the referendum over the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of King Leopold III, 42.3% against.
  • March 18 – The Belgian government collapses, after the March 12 referendum favouring of the return from exile of King Leopold III.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_2840000/2840237.stm|work=BBC News|title=1950: Government falls as Belgians vote for king|date=March 18, 1950}}
  • March 20 – The Polish government enacts a law to take possession of properties owned by Roman Catholic churches.Marian S. Mazgaj, Church and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944–1989 (McFarland, 2010) pp. 55–56
  • March 22Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal.
  • March 23 – The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony is held.

= April =

{{Main|April 1950}}

  • April 14 – Influential British comic Eagle is launched.
  • April 15 – Belgian King Leopold III announces that he is ready to abdicate in favor of his son, Baudouin.
  • April 21A mass stabbing occurs in Nainital, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=529YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EPgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1389,1304611&dq= 22 guests slain], The Bend Bulletin (21 April 1950)[https://newspaperarchive.com/ogden-standard-examiner/1950-04-21/ 22 guests slain as wedding held], The Ogden Standard-Examiner (21 April 1950)[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105104424/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/423532671.html?dids=423532671:423532671&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+22%2C+1950&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Studio+Electrician+Loses+Paternity+Suit+Verdict&pqatl=google Drunk Gurkha Kills 22], Los Angeles Times (22 April 1950) [https://newspaperarchive.com/huntingdon-daily-news/1950-04-22/page-5 Murders 22 at wedding], The Huntingdon Daily News (22 April 1950)
  • April 24Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.
  • April 27
  • Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races.
  • Britain formally recognises Israel.

= May =

{{Main|May 1950}}

= June =

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= July =

{{Main|July 1950}}

= August =

{{Main|August 1950}}

  • August 5
  • 2 Squadron SAAF departs from South Africa to take part in the Korean War.{{Cite journal|last=McGregor|first=P. M. J.|date=1978-06-03|title=The History of No 2 Squadron, SAAF, in the Korean War|journal=Military History Journal|publisher=The South African Military History Society|volume=4|issue=3|issn=0026-4016|url=http://samilitaryhistory.org/journal.html|access-date=2009-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823023750/http://samilitaryhistory.org/journal.html|archive-date=August 23, 2009|url-status=dead}}
  • 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash: A bomb-laden Boeing B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California, United States, killing 17 people and injuring 68.
  • August 6 – Monarchist demonstrations lead to a riot in Brussels.
  • August 8
  • American Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes, beating the women's record for the crossing.
  • Winston Churchill supports the idea of a pan-European army, allied with Canada and the U.S.
  • August 12
  • Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre – 75 U.S. soldiers are executed after being captured in battle by North Korea.
  • In his encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII requires Catholic theologians to defer to the teachings of the Church as a whole but declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that does not contradict essential Catholic views.
  • August 15 – The 8.6 {{M|w}} Assam–Tibet earthquake shakes the region, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 1,500 and 3,300 people.
  • August 17Korean War: Hill 303 massacre – 39 U.S. soldiers are executed after being captured in battle by North Korea.
  • August 22
  • France announces the introduction of a government-guaranteed minimum wage.{{cite book|author=United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics|title=Notes on Labor Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuJYAAAAYAAJ|year=1949|pages=4–5}}
  • The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is founded in Tagbilaran City, Philippines.
  • August 23 – Legendary African American singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport has recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.

= September =

{{Main|September 1950}}

= October =

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= November =

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= December =

{{Main|December 1950}}

= Date unknown =

  • Canadians Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen and Frank Plomp introduce the plastic bin bag, for garbage collection.
  • Myxomatosis is introduced into Australia, in an attempt to control the escalating rabbit population.
  • IBM Israel begins operating in Tel Aviv.
  • President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam, to aid French forces.
  • Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Old Testament (commissioned by the Catholic Church) is published.
  • Laos gets involved in the First Indochina War, to overthrow the French Army.
  • Raid Pyrénéen, a French timed bicycle challenge since 1950.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccb-cyclo.fr/raid-pyreneen.html|title=Le Raid Pyrénéen - la traversée des Pyrénées à vélo|website=www.ccb-cyclo.fr}}
  • In the summer of 1950, the first newspaper for the Romanian minority in modern Hungary, Foaia Românească ("The Romanian Sheet"), is founded.{{cite journal|url=http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ROLUL-PRESEI.pdf|title=Rolul presei în viața unei minorități. Perspectivă generală cu referire la evoluția în timp a săptămânalului "Foaia Românească"|first=Eva|last=Iova Șimon|journal=Studii de Știință și Cultură|volume=2|issue=5|pages=123–125|year=2006|language=ro}}

Births

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= January =

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  • January 1Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coach{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
  • January 3
  • Victoria Principal, American actress (Dallas){{cite book|title=The Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuOFAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald|page=93}}
  • Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant and world-record holding plane crash survivor (d. 2016){{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|title=Vesna Vulovic, air stewardess who survived a plane crash – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/01/03/vesna-vulovic-air-stewardess-survived-plane-crash-obituary/|url-access=subscription|date=3 January 2017|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810044802/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/01/03/vesna-vulovic-air-stewardess-survived-plane-crash-obituary/|archive-date=10 August 2017|url-status=live}}
  • January 7
  • Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer, songwriter and philanthropist (d. 2016){{cite book|author= |title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA74|date=2 October 1999|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=74}}
  • Erin Gray, American actress{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|page=77}}
  • January 9Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling{{cite book|author=Neil Schlager|title=Science and Its Times: 1950-present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1o5FAAAAYAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3939-6|page=157}}
  • January 12Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-born British businesswoman; First Lady of Iceland 2003-2016{{cite web|url=https://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/dorrit-moussaieff/|title=Dorrit Moussaieff|website=Fashion Model Directory|access-date=15 November 2020}}
  • January 14Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leader{{cite book | last = Nagar | first = Shanti Lal

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| editor3-last = Sushil | publisher = B. R. Publishing Corporation | edition = First, Hardback | location = New Delhi, India

| year = 2002 | isbn = 81-7646-288-8}} 37–53.

  • January 16
  • Debbie Allen, African-American actress, dancer, and choreographer{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=RA7-PA1931|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94858-5|pages=7}}
  • Honey Irani, Indian film actress and screenwriter
  • Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
  • January 18Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982){{cite book|author=Christopher Hilton|title=Jacques Villeneuve: In His Own Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_27Ho16PLLYC|year=1996|publisher=Patrick Stephens|isbn=978-1-85260-557-5|page=13}}
  • January 21Billy Ocean, Trinidadian–British singer{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=95}}
  • January 23Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (MacGyver){{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=97}}
  • January 24
  • Daniel Auteuil, French actor{{cite book|title=Film Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3VZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Orpheus Pub|page=85}}
  • Gennifer Flowers, American actress, connected to Bill Clinton
  • January 26Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (d. 2008){{cite book|author=David Wilsford|title=Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8iJNlWcdIUC&pg=PA183|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28623-0|pages=183}}
  • January 29
  • Ann Jillian, American actress{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA496|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94859-3|pages=496}}
  • Jody Scheckter, South African racing driver{{cite book|author=Joseph M. Siegman|title=The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA19|year=1992|publisher=SP Books|isbn=978-1-56171-028-7|pages=19}}
  • Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, screenwriter

=February=

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  • February 1Kazimierz Nycz, Polish clergyman
  • February 3Morgan Fairchild, American actress (Flamingo Road)
  • February 5Jonathan Freeman, American actor and puppeteer.
  • February 6Natalie Cole, African-American singer (d. 2015)
  • February 7Karen Joy Fowler, American author{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pa3iAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-5554-5|page=141}}
  • February 10
  • Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician and economist, assassinated while campaigning for President of Mexico (d. 1994){{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6885/Luis%20Donaldo%20Colosio%20Murrieta|title=Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta|publisher=Busca Biografias|language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019}}
  • Mark Spitz, American Olympic swimmer{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=PA1942-IA48|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94858-5|pages=1942}}
  • February 12
  • Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (V)
  • João W. Nery, Brazilian writer and LGBT activist (d. 2018){{cite web|url=https://www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/pioneiro-na-luta-trans-no-brasil-joao-w.-nery-morre-aos-68-anos |title= Pioneiro na luta trans no Brasil, João W. Nery morre aos 68 anos |language=Portuguese |publisher=guiagaysaopaulo.com.br |date= 26 October 2018|accessdate=28 July 2019}}
  • February 13
  • Peter Gabriel, British rock musician, original lead singer of Genesis{{cite book|author=Alan Hewitt|title=Opening the Musical Box: A Genesis Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvQ5AQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Firefly|isbn=978-0-946719-30-3|page=13}}
  • Bob Daisley, Australian musician
  • Lyman Hoffman, American politician and member of the Alaska State Legislature since 1987
  • February 15Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director
  • February 16Peter Hain, Kenyan-born British politician{{cite book|author1=Dod Vacher|author2=Vacher Dod Publishing|title=Dod's Guide to the General Election, June 2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjOIAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Vacher Dod Publishing|isbn=978-0-905702-32-2|page=131}}
  • February 18
  • Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate{{Cite web|url=http://cwtlgh.org/nana-amba-eyiaba-I|title=Nana Amba Eyiaba I|website=The Council of Women Traditional Leaders, Ghana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908153539/http://cwtlgh.org/nana-amba-eyiaba-I|archive-date=September 8, 2014|access-date=August 11, 2018}}
  • John Hughes, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2009){{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-hughes7-2009aug07,0,6955065.story |title=John Hughes dies at 59; writer-director of '80s teen films |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=August 7, 2009 |access-date=July 26, 2011}}
  • Cybill Shepherd, American actress (The Last Picture Show)
  • February 21
  • Larry Drake, American actor, voice artist, and comedian (d. 2016)
  • Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia{{Cite web|url=https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/sahle-work-zewde/|title=Sahle-Work Zewde|website=Iowa State University|access-date=15 November 2020}}
  • February 22
  • Julius Erving, African-American basketball player
  • Fabio Innocenti, retired Italian volleyball player{{cite web |title=Innocenti Fabio |url=https://www.legavolley.it/player/INN-F-55 |website=Legavolley |publisher=Lega Pallavolo Serie A |access-date=16 October 2023 |language=Italian}}
  • Awn Al-Khasawneh, Prime Minister of Jordan{{cite book|author=Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives|title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3clDAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Commonwealth Government Printer|page=29677}}
  • Miou-Miou, French actress{{cite book|author=James Monaco|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1978|year=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7|pages=7}}
  • Julie Walters, English actress{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=142}}
  • February 24George Thorogood, American musician
  • February 25
  • Neil Jordan, Irish film director, writer and producer{{cite book|author=Yvonne Tasker|title=Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8OCud_HKywC&pg=PA192|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-65664-6|pages=192}}
  • Néstor Kirchner, 49th President of Argentina (d. 2010){{cite book|title=Political Risk Yearbook - 2010: Vol. 3 - South America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXVaAAAAYAAJ|year=2010|publisher=PRS Group Incorporated|isbn=978-1-933539-98-0|page=39}}
  • February 26
  • Jonathan Cain, American musician
  • Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand{{cite book|title=Who's who in Asian and Australasian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Bowker-Saur|isbn=978-0-86291-593-3|page=58}}
  • February 27Azean Irdawaty, Malaysian actress, singer (d. 2013)
  • February 28Jaime Fabregas, Filipino actor

=March=

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=May=

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  • May 2Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner)
  • May 5Googoosh, Iranian singer, actress
  • May 6Jeffery Deaver, American crime writer{{cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82232411.html |title=Deaver, Jeffrey |work=Library of Congress|access-date=January 28, 2018}}
  • May 7Tim Russert, American journalist (Meet the Press) (d. 2008){{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HAFOyYH4gQC&pg=PA12619|year=2008|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=12619}}
  • May 10Dale Wilson, Canadian voice actor
  • May 11Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
  • May 12
  • Ana Cano, Spanish philologist{{cite web | url=https://www.lne.es/occidente/2016/05/05/ana-cano-oficialidad-unica-oportunidad-19576277.html | title=Ana Cano: "La oficialidad es la única oportunidad de que el gallego-asturiano sobreviva" | date=5 May 2016 }}
  • Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
  • May 13
  • Joe Johnston, American film director
  • Danny Kirwan, British musician (d. 2018)
  • Stevie Wonder, African-American musician
  • May 14Jill Stein, American politician, activist, and 2016 Green Party presidential candidate
  • May 15Renate Stecher, German athlete{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/renate-stecher|title=Renate Stecher|website=Olympic.org|access-date=14 November 2020}}
  • May 16Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • May 17Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Slovenia, 2nd President of Slovenia (d. 2008)
  • May 18
  • Thomas Gottschalk, German radio, television host, entertainer and actor
  • Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, artist, and singer (Devo)
  • May 23Richard Chase, American "vampirist" serial killer (d. 1980){{cite web | url=https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/richard-trenton-chase/ | title=Richard Trenton Chase }}
  • May 29Frederick Sumaye, 7th Prime Minister of Tanzania{{cite book|author1=Roger East|author2=Richard J. Thomas|title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJG3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT535|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-63939-8|pages=535}}

=June=

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File:Sonia Manzano - 2015 National Book Festival.jpg]]

=July=

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File:Richard Branson March 2015 (cropped).jpg]]

=August=

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File:Steve Wozniak, November 2018.jpg]]

File:Princess Anne October 2015.jpg]]

=September=

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File:Julie Kavner.jpg]]

File:Official Photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Portrait.png]]

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=October=

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File:Tom Petty Live in Horsens (cropped2).jpg]]

File:Rino Gaetano.jpg]]

File:John Candy (cropped).jpg]]

=November=

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=December=

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File:Rajinikanth at the Inauguration of MGR Statue.jpg]]

=Date unknown=

  • Koibla Djimasta, 7th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 2007)
  • Joseph Yodoyman, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 1993){{cite book|author1=Mario J. Azevedo|author2=Samuel Decalo|title=Historical Dictionary of Chad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xd9jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA541|date=15 August 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-5381-1437-7|pages=542}}

Deaths

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=January=

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File:Alan Hale 1921.jpg]]

File:أحمد الجابر الصباح.jpg]]

=February=

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=March=

File:Albert Lebrun 1932 (2).jpg]]

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R98911, Heinrich Mann.jpg]]

File:Vaida-Voevod.jpg]]

File:Léon Blum Meurisse b 1927.jpg]]

=April=

File:Mehmet Recep Bey Peker.jpg]]

File:GA Franciscus Janssens 02.jpg]]

=May=

File:Патријарх Гаврило (Дожић).jpg]]

File:Alfonso Quiñónez Molina 1915.jpg]]

=June=

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File:Melitta Bentz.jpg]]

File:Протоиерей Феодор Пашковский.jpg]]

=July=

File:Nedosinska.jpg]]

File:WLMackenzieKing.jpg]]

=August=

File:Tadeusz Tomaszewski, cz%C5%82onek Trybuna%C5%82u Stanu.JPG]]

File:Alessandri Ulk (1932).jpg]]

=September=

File:Jan Smuts 1947.jpg]]

=October=

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File:Miguel Mariano Gomez (contrast enhanced).tif]]

File:Gustaf V f%C3%A4rgfoto.jpg]]

=November=

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File:Hryhorij Grzegorz %C5%81akota.png]]

File:Ah karami.png]]

=December=

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File:Enrico Mizzi.JPG]]

File:Karl Renner 1905.jpg]]

Nobel Prizes

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  • PhysicsCecil Frank Powell{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1950/powell/biographical/|title=Cecil Powell Biographical|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=19 November 2020}}
  • ChemistryOtto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1950/summary/|title=Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=19 November 2020}}
  • MedicineEdward Calvin Kendall, Tadeusz Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1950/summary/|title=Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=19 November 2020}}
  • LiteratureEarl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/facts/|title=Bertrand Russell Facts|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=19 November 2020}}
  • PeaceRalph Bunche{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1950/bunche/facts/|title=Ralph Bunche Facts|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=19 November 2020}}

References

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