Historical figures in 1950
The atlas holds 90 people and 119 moments here, in 1950. The most recorded lives are Ngô Đình Diệm, Sirikit and Harry S. Truman. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Jurists.
Notable people
Lee Kuan Yew
in 1950
2 moments here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1950
3 moments here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1950
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1950
1 moment here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Marlon Brando
in 1950
1 moment here
American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1950
2 moments here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1950
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Mercedes Sosa
in 1950
1 moment here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1950
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1950
2 moments here
Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Mother Teresa
in 1950
1 moment here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Néstor Kirchner
in 1950
1 moment here
Argentine lawyer and Peronist politician. Kirchner was mayor of Río Gallegos, governor of Santa Cruz Province, president of Argentina from 2003 to…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1950
4 moments here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1950
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Pol Pot
in 1950
1 moment here
Cambodian communist revolutionary and dictator, born Saloth Sâr. As leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Democratic Kampuchea, he oversaw a…
P. Ramlee
in 1950
1 moment here
Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh, known as P. Ramlee, was a Malaysian actor, singer, composer, and filmmaker.…
Puyi
in 1950
1 moment here
Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1950
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Salvador Dalí
in 1950
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
in 1950
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…
Satyajit Ray
in 1950
1 moment here
Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Sebastián Piñera
in 1950
1 moment here
Chilean economist, businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.…
Sirikit
in 1950
4 moments here
Sirikit Kitiyakara was Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016 as consort of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and later Queen Mother.…
Sri Aurobindo
in 1950
1 moment here
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, poet, and yogi. His documented movements run from childhood in Bengal and…
Moments
- 1950 Deployment to French Indochina Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- 1950 Meeting at the president's Pusan office Syngman Rhee
- 1950 Marriage to Patrice Wymore Errol Flynn
- 1950 Development-plan announcement Golda Meir
- 1950 San Francisco address after Wake conference Harry S. Truman
- 1950 Wake Island conference with MacArthur Harry S. Truman
- 1950 Government evacuation to Sinuiju Kim Il Sung
- 1950 Wartime refuge in Kanggye Kim Il Sung
- 1950 LV12 radio-contest victory Mercedes Sosa
- 1950 Birth in Baghdad Zaha Hadid
- 1950 Return to Beijing during Korean War crisis Zhou Enlai
- 1950 Student protest and arrest Fidel Castro
- 1950 Death at Shaw's Corner George Bernard Shaw
- 1950 Move to Storey's End Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1950 Hears Mordecai Johnson on Gandhi Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1950 Death in Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo
- 1950 Death at Birla House Vallabhbhai Patel
- 1950 Transfer by air to Bombay Vallabhbhai Patel
- 1950 Nobel banquet speech William Faulkner