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1950
1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March, April
May, June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown date
Births
January, February
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January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
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January 16 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
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January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
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January 21 - Billy Ocean, musician
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January 23 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
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January 29 - Jody Scheckter, South African racing driver
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February 2 - Barbara Sukowa , actress
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February 3 - Morgan Fairchild, actress
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February 6 - Natalie Cole, singer
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February 10 - Mark Spitz, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist
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February 11 - Earnest Jim Istook , US-American politician
- February 11 - Johanna E. Beerens , actress
- February 11 - Rochelle Fleming , soul music vocalist
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February 12 - Michael Ironside, US actor
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February 13 - Peter Gabriel, British musician
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February 16 - Peter Hain, British politician
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February 18 - John Hughes, director, producer, writer
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February 22 - Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer
- February 22 - Julie Walters, actress
- February 22 - Miou-Miou, actress
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February 25 - Neil Jordan, director, writer, producer
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February 25 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
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February 26 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
March, April
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March 2 - Karen Carpenter, singer and drummer (d. 1983)
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March 4 - Rick Perry, governor of Texas
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March 5 - Matheisl Willy , German photographer
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March 9 - Doug Ault, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
- March 9 - Danny Sullivan, automobile racer
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March 11 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer
- March 11 - Jerry Zucker, producer, director, writer
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March 13 - William H. Macy, actor
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March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
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March 20 - William Hurt, American actor
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March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass, singer
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March 29 - Bud Cort, actor
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March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, British actor, comedian
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April 3 - Sally Thomsett , British actress
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April 4 - Christine Lahti, American actress
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April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer/songwriter, member of the group ABBA
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April 10 - Ken Griffey, Sr., Major League Baseball player
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April 22 - Peter Frampton, musician
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April 25 - Lenora Branch Fulani, New Alliance Party United States Presidential candidate.
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April 28 - Jay Leno, American comedian, late night talk show host
May-September
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May 3 - Howard Ashman, lyricist
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May 7 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, boxer, actor
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May 12 - Bruce Boxleitner, actor
- May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor
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May 13 - Stevie Wonder, singer, pianist, bassist, drummer
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May 16 - Johannes Georg Bednorz, physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1987
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May 17 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician
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May 17 - Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician and dissident
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May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh, composer & musician
- May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, show master
- May 18 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete
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May 22 - Bernie Taupin, songwriter
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June 1 - Tom Robinson, singer, musician, gay icon
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June 3 - Suzi Quatro, singer, actress
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July 17 - Michel Lotito, Frenchman who eats everything
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July 18 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
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August 11 - Gennidy Nikonov, designer of the AN-94 assault rifle
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August 14 - Bob Backlund, professional wrestler
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August 15 - HRH Princess Anne of Edinburgh, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II
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August 16 - Hasely Crawford, Trinidad and Tobago athlete
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September 17 - Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat
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September 21 - Charles Clarke, British politician
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September 28 - John Sayles director, screenwriter
October-December
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October 1 - Randy Quaid, actor
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October 12 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor, host of Iron Chef
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October 22 - Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado
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October 31 - John Candy, US comedian and actor
- October 31 - Jane Pauley, television broadcaster, journalist
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November 21 - Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
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November 22:
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December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux producer, writer
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December 5 - Camarón de la Isla, flamenco cantaore
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December 18 - Leonard Maltin, film critic
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December 23 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
Deaths
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September 10 - Raymond Sommer, Grand Prix motor racing driver
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September 11 - Jan Christian Smuts
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September 21 - Arthur Milne, British space physicist
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October 23 - Al Jolson, US movie musician
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October 29 - Gustav V of Sweden
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November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born playwright
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November 3 - Koiso Kuniaki, Japanese prime minister
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November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner
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December 2 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist
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December 5 - Shri Aurobindo, guru
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December 11 - Leslie Comrie, astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
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December 27 - Max Beckmann, painter
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