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In the year 1950

1,474 Notable birthdays

Gary Larson

American cartoonist.

Born August 14th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Tacoma. [ref]

Ronald McNair

Physicist, astronaut (1950-1986).

Born October 21st, 1950 in Lake City.

Died January 28th, 1986 at 35 years old in Cape Canaveral (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).

Jeremy Paxman

English journalist, author and broadcaster.

Born May 11th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Leeds.

Mark Blum

American actor.

Born May 14th, 1950 in Newark.

Died March 25th, 2020 at 69 years old in NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (COVID-19). [ref]

David Graf

American actor (1950–2001).

Born April 16th, 1950 in Zanesville.

Died April 7th, 2001 at 50 years old in Phoenix (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Steve Hackett

British guitarist and singer.

Born February 12th, 1950 (age 76 years) in London.

Patty Murray

United states senator from washington since 2013.

Born October 11th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Bothell.

Joe Hisaishi

Japanese composer, conductor, pianist.

Born December 6th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Nakano.

Ian McNeice

British actor.

Born October 2nd, 1950 (age 75 years) in Basingstoke.

Joseph Paul Franklin

American serial killer (1950-2013).

Born April 13th, 1950 in Mobile.

Died November 20th, 2013 at 63 years old in Bonne Terre (lethal injection).

Jackie Speier

American politician.

Born May 14th, 1950 (age 75 years) in San Francisco.

Angelyne

American model and actress.

Born October 2nd, 1950 (age 75 years) in Poland. [ref]

Alan Rosenberg

American actor.

Born October 4th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Passaic.

Ann Jillian

American actress.

Born January 29th, 1950 (age 76 years) in Cambridge.

Nora Roberts

American romance writer.

Born October 10th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Silver Spring.

Rickey Medlocke

American rock musician.

Born February 17th, 1950 (age 76 years) in Jacksonville.

Scooter Libby

American lawyer and political advisor (born 1950).

Born August 22nd, 1950 (age 75 years) in New Haven. [ref]

Hamad II of Bahrain

King of bahrain since 2002 and emir from 1999 to 2002.

Born January 28th, 1950 (age 76 years) in Bahrain, Riffa.

Sreenivasan

Indian film actor, screenwriter, director, and producer..

Born May 2nd, 1950 in Pattiam Grama Panchayat.

Died December 20th, 2025 at 75 years old in Kochi. [ref]

Zhang Yimou

Chinese filmmaker.

Born April 2nd, 1950 (age 76 years) in Xi'an.

Genesis P-Orridge

British artist, musician and writer (1950–2020).

Born February 22nd, 1950 in Victoria Park.

Died March 14th, 2020 at 70 years old in Lower East Side (chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, leukemia). [ref]

Tim Russert

American journalist.

Born May 7th, 1950 in Buffalo. [ref]

Died June 13th, 2008 at 58 years old in Washington, D.C. (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Subhash Chandra

Indian businessman.

Born November 30th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Hisar.

Mike Rutherford

British musician.

Born October 2nd, 1950 (age 75 years) in Guildford.

Vicente del Bosque

Spanish footballer.

Born December 23rd, 1950 (age 75 years) in Salamanca.

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