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
Stephen Hawking
in 1950
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Suharto
in 1950
1 moment here
Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1950
3 moments here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Tenzing Norgay
in 1950
1 moment here
Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…
Thích Nhất Hạnh
in 1950
1 moment here
Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, teacher, author, and peace activist. Thích Nhất Hạnh helped develop engaged Buddhism, founded the Plum Village…
Tina Turner
in 1950
1 moment here
Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) was an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, actress, and author.…
Toshiro Mifune
in 1950
1 moment here
Japanese actor, producer, and director whose career spanned 1947–1995. Born in Qingdao, he grew up in Dalian, served in the Imperial Japanese Army…
Tsung-Dao Lee
in 1950
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1950
2 moments here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
Vasily Shukshin
in 1950
1 moment here
Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and film director associated with Village Prose.…
V. S. Naipaul
in 1950
2 moments here
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.…
William Faulkner
in 1950
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1950
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1950
2 moments here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Yuri Gagarin
in 1950
1 moment here
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space and to orbit Earth on Vostok 1 on 12 April…
Zaha Hadid
in 1950
1 moment here
Iraqi-British architect, artist, and designer known for experimental, fluid architectural forms.…
Zhou Enlai
in 1950
1 moment here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
in 1950
1 moment here
Pakistani barrister and statesman who served as Pakistan’s fourth president (1971–1973) and ninth prime minister (1973–1977).…