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Charles M. Schulz at work[/caption] In the year 1950, The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel (Jan 23), the Stasi is founded in East Germany (Feb 8), In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races (Apr 27), Korean War begins (Jun 25), Peanuts is first published in seven U.S. newspapers (Oct 2), Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea (Nov 30) - and all these fine people were born:
1950-0103 Victoria Principal* actress - Fukuoka, Japan 1950-0103 Vesna Vulovic* flight attendant/ survived the highest recorded fall without a parachute - Belgrade, Yugoslavia (2016/66) 1950-0110 Roy Blunt* politician/senator - Niangua, MO USA 1950-0111 John Gallas* poet/of Austrian descent - Wellington, New Zealand 1950-0116 Debbie Allen* dancer/actress - Houston, TX USA 1950-0118 Gilles Villeneuve* racing driver - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC Canada (1982/32) 1950-0123 Richard Dean Anderson* actor - Minneapolis, MN USA 1950-0126 Jörg Haider* politician - Bad Goisern, Austria (2008/58) 1950-0126 Ivan Hlinka* hockey player - Most, Czechoslovakia (2004/54) 1950-0129 Jody Scheckter* racing driver/WC - East London, South Africa 1950-0201 Mike Campbell* guitarist/ songwriter/record producer - Panama City, FL USA 1950-0202 1950-0203 Markku Aro* (b Puputti) singer - Mouhijärvi, Finland 1950-0203 Morgan Fairchild* actress - Denton, TX USA 1950-0203 Ron Woodroof* creator of the Dallas Buyers Club - Dallas, TX USA (1992/42) 1950-0206 Natalie Cole* singer/songwriter/actress - Los Angeles, CA USA (2015/65) 1950-0206 René Fasel* IIHF President - Fribourg, Switzerland 1950-0210 Mark Spitz* athlete/swimmer - Modesto, CA USA 1950-0211 Mauri Kunnas* cartoonist/children’s author - Vammala, Finland 1950-0212 Michael Ironside* actor - Toronto, ON Canada 1950-0214 David Poile* hockey GM - Toronto, ON Canada 1950-0215 Patrick Michaels* agricultural climatologist - Berwyn, IL USA (2022/72) 1950-0216 1950-0218 Cybill Shepherd* actress - Memphis, TN USA 1950-0221 Sahle-Work Zewde* diplomat/first female president of Ethiopia - Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire 1950-0222 Julie Walters* actress/writer - Edgbaston, Birmingham, England 1950-0225 Neil Jordan* film director/screenwriter/novelist - Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland 1950-0302 Karen Carpenter* singer - New Haven, CT USA (1983/32) 1950-0313 William H. Macy* actor - Miami, FL USA 1950-0318 Brad Dourif* actor - Huntington, WV USA 1950-0320 William Hurt* actor - Washington, D.C. USA (2022/71) 1950-0322 Lauri Mononen* hockey player - Joensuu, Finland (2018/68) 1950-0322 Donna Payant* murdered corrections officer - NY USA (1981/31) 1950-0325 Francis Boyle* human rights lawyer - Chicago, IL USA (2025/74) 1950-0326 1950-0327 Maria Ewing* opera singer - Detroit, MI USA (2022/71) 1950-0330 Robbie Coltrane* actor - Rutherglen, Scotland (2022/72) 1950-0331 Ed Marinaro* Am. football player/actor - New York, NY USA 1950-0401 1950-0404 Christine Lahti* actress/ filmmaker/of Finnish descent - Birmingham, MI USA 1950-0405 Agneta Fältskog* singer/actress/author - Jönköping, Sweden 1950-0405 Jan “Harpo” Svensson* singer - Stockholm, Sweden 1950-0410 1950-0411 Bill Irwin* actor/ comedian/clown - Santa Monica, CA USA 1950-0411 Jim Molan* major general/politician - East Melbourne, VIC Australia (2023/72) 1950-0412 David Cassidy* singer/guitarist - Manhattan, NY USA (2017/67) 1950-0413 Ron Perlman* actor - New York, NY USA 1950-0413 William Sadler* actor - Buffalo, NY USA 1950-0414 Tom Hagen* businessman/real estate developer/w wife who disappeared - Gran, Oppland, Norway 1950-0414 H. Vasanthakumar* businessman/ politician - Agastheeswaram, Tamil Nadu, India (2020/70) 1950-0420 1950-0426 Sture Bergwall (b Thomas Quick) convicted of serial killings/ false confessions - Falun, Sweden 1950-0428 Jay Leno* stand-up comedian/television host (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) - New Rochelle, NY USA 1950-0430 1950-0501 John Diehl* actor - Cincinnati, OH USA 1950-0501 Dann Florek* actor - Flat Rock, MI USA 1950-0512 Gabriel Byrne* actor - Dublin, Ireland 1950-0512 Christian Moustgaard* musical entrepreneur - Finland 1950-0513 Danny Kirwan* guitarist/singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) - Brixton, London, England (2018/68) 1950-0513 Stevie Wonder* singer - Saginaw, MI USA 1950-0514 Mark Blum* actor - Newark, NJ USA (2020/69) 1950-0514 Jackie Speier* politician/Jonestown survivor - San Francisco, CA USA 1950-0522 Bernie Taupin* lyricist/poet/singer - Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England 1950-0523 Richard Chase* serial killer - Santa Clara, CA USA (1980/30) 1950-0526 Juhani Tamminen* hockey player/ coach - Turku, Finland 1950-0527 Alex Gray* (b Sandra Lang) crime writer - Glasgow, Scotland 1950-0531 Gregory Harrison* actor/director - Avalon, CA USA 1950-0601 Gemma Craven* actress - Dublin, Ireland 1950-0601 Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi* Islamic scholar/educationist - Kosadi, Bombay State, India (2025/74) 1950-0602 Joanna Gleason* actress /singer - Toronto, ON Canada 1950-0603 Melissa Mathison* screenwriter/activist for the Tibetan independence movement/m to Harrison Ford - Los Angeles, CA USA (2015/65) 1950-0604 George Noory* radio talk show host - Detroit, MI USA 1950-0606 Chantal Akerman* screenwriter/ film director/artist - Brussels, Belgium (2015/65) 1950-0607 1950-0608 Kathy Baker* actress - Midland, TX USA 1950-0608Sonia Braga* actress - Maringá, Paraná, Brazil 1950-0609 Yuri Shchekochikhin* investigative journalist (Novaya Gazeta) - Kirovabad, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union (2003/53) 1950-0610 1950-0613 Jorma Jaakola* athlete (javelin) - Vihanti, Finland 1950-0615 Dale Baer* character animator - Denver, CO USA (2021/70) 1950-0617 Lee Tamahori* film director/of Māori ancestry - Wellington, New Zealand 1950-0623 Heiko Santelmann* German-Norwegian physician/for alternative medicine - Celle, West Germany 1950-0624 Nancy Allen* actress - The Bronx, NY USA 1950-0625 Alastair Little* chef/ cookbook author/restaurateur - Colne, Lancashire, England (2022/72) 1950-0628 Jorma Uotinen* dancer/ choreographer/singer - Pori, Finland 1950-0629 Tarja Keinänen* actress - Oulu, Finland 1950-0630 1950-0701 1950-0702 Lee Maracle* writer/ academic/granddaughter of Tsleil-Waututh Chief Dan George - Vancouver, BC Canada (2021/71) 1950-0709 Viktor Yanukovich* politician/P - Yenakiyevo, Ukraine, Soviet Union 1950-0710 1950-0711 Bruce McGill* actor - San Antonio, TX USA 1950-0711 Bonnie Pointer* singer/member of the Pointer Sisters – Oakland, CA USA (2020/69) 1950-0715 Arianna Huffington* (b Stasinopoulou) Greek-American author /syndicated columnist/ founder of The Huffington Post - Athens, Greece 1950-0717 Peter Neufeld* lawyer/co-founder of the Innocence Project - Brooklyn, NY USA 1950-0718 Jack Dongarra* computer scientist - Chicago, IL USA 1950-0720 Tantoo Cardinal* actress - Fort McMurray, AB Canada 1950-0726 Nicholas Evans* journalist/ screenwriter/producer - Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (2022/72) 1950-0730 Frank Stallone* actor/ singer-songwriter/guitarist/brother of Sylvester Stallone - New York, NY USA 1950-0801 1950-0803 John Landis* film director/producer - Chicago, IL USA 1950-0805 Rosi Mittermaier* alpine skier - Munich, West Germany (2023/72) 1950-0810 1950-0811 Steve Wozniak* co-founder of Apple - San Jose, CA USA 1950-0814 Gary Larson* cartoonist - Tacoma, WA USA 1950-0815 Anne, Princess Royal* the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II - Clarence House, London, England 1950-0815 Tess Harper* actress - Mammoth Spring, AR USA 1950-0815 Juha Muje* actor - Pietarsaari, Finland (2020/69) 1950-0815 Jorma Ollila* businessman (Nokia) - Seinäjoki, Finland 1950-0816 Jack Unterweger* serial killer operating in several countries - Judenburg, Austria (1994/43) 1950-0817 Christian Kohlund* actor/director - Basel, Switzerland 1950-0820 Andrew Downes* composer - Birmingham, England (2023/72) 1950-0830 1950-0901 Mwako Cumbaka* actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - USA 1950-0901 Phil McGraw* psychologist/host of Dr. Phil - Vinita, OK USA 1950-0903 Pave Maijanen* singer/ musician/producer - Lappeenranta, Finland (2021/70) 1950-0907 Julie Kavner* actress/voice actress (Marge Simpson etc) - Los Angeles, CA USA 1950-0908 Jim Mattis* general/politician - Pullman, WA USA 1950-0917 Narendra Modi* politician/PM - Vadnagar, Bomay State, India 1950-0917 Robert Slavin* psychologist/educator - Bethesda, MD USA (2021/70) 1950-0918 Darryl Sittler* hockey player (NHL 100)/most points scored in one game - St. Jacobs, ON Canada 1950-0919 Erkki Liikanen* politician - Mikkeli, Finland 1950-0921 Bill Murray* actor/ comedian - Wilmette, IL USA 1950-0922 Kirill “Kirka” Babitzin* singer - Helsinki, Finland (2007/56) 1950-0923 Scott Newman* actor/stuntman - Cleveland, OH USA (1978/28) 1950-0926 Tracy Marks* astrologer - Miami Beach, FL USA 1950-0927 John Marsden* school principal/writer - Melbourne, VIC Australia (2024/74) 1950-0928 1950-0930 Vondie Curtis-Hall* actor/ screenwriter/director - Detroit, MI USA - IMDb 1950-1001 Randy Quaid* actor - Houston, TX USA 1950-1002 Ian McNeice* actor - Basingstoke, Hampshire, England 1950-1005 Aake Kalliala* actor - Heinola, Finland 1950-1005 Pentti Matikainen* hockey coach - Joensuu, Finland 1950-1013 John Patrick Shanley* playwright/ screenwriter/director - The Bronx, NY USA 1950-1016 Riitta Salin* athlete/hurdler - Helsinki, Finland 1950-1017 Wally Lamb* author (I Know This Much Is True) - Norwich, CT USA 1950-1018 Om Puri* actor - Ambala, Punjab, India (2017/66) 1950-1021 Ronald McNair* astronaut - Lake City, SC USA (1986/35) 1950-1022 Harry Gration* journalist/ broadcaster - Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2022/71) 1950-1031 1950-11xx Aino Nykopp-Koski* serial killer - Finland 1950-1103 Nayyara Noor* Pakistani playback singer - Guwahati, Assam, India (2022/71) 1950-1105 Gary Fisher* one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike - USA 1950-1106 Torben Lund* politician/ television host - Vejle, Denmark 1950-1109 Pasi Kaunisto* singer - Ylöjärvi, Finland 1950-1111 Vjatšeslav Soloduhin* hockey player - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union (1979/29) 1950-1113 Gilbert Perreault* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach - Victoriaville, QC Canada 1950-1120 1950-1121 Tuomari Nurmio* (b Hannu Nurmio) singer/songwriter - Helsinki, Finland 1950-1122 Steven van Zandt* a.k.a. Little Steven/singer-songwriter/musician/activist - Winthrop, MA USA 1950-1126 Bengt Magnusson* journalist/ television presenter - Ystad, Sweden 1950-1126 Monica Ross* artist/academic/feminist - Lancashire, England (2013/62) 1950-1127 1950-1128 Ed Harris* actor - Tenafly, NJ USA 1950-1128 Russell Alan Hulse* physicist/N - New York City, NY USA 1950-1130 Chris Claremont* British-American comic book writer/novelist - London, England 1950-1201 Manju Bansal* molecular biologist - Dehradun, India 1950-1206 Joe Hisaishi* (b Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守) composer/writer of film scores - Nagano, Japan 1950-1210 1950-1211 Christina Onassis* businesswoman/ daughter of Aristotle Onassis - New York City, NY USA (1988/37) 1950-1212 Billy Smith* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/the first goalie to be credited with a goal - Perth, ON Canada 1950-1218 Leonard Maltin* film critic/film historian - New York City, NY USA 1950-1220 Don Heffington* drummer/percussionist/songwriter - Los Angeles, CA USA (2021/70) 1950-1220 Abul Kalam Qasmi* scholar/critic/ poet in the Urdu language - Darbhanga, Bihar, India (2021/70) 1950-1222 María Antonieta de las Nieves* (b Rodriguez) actress/ comedian/singer - Santiago Ixcuintla, Mexico 1950-1224 Catherine Austin Fitts* investment adviser - Philadelphia, PA USA 1950-1225 1950-1230 Martti Vainio* long-distance runner/WB/EG - Vehkalahti, Finland 1950-0 1950-0 1950-0 Updated 2025-0512 Helsinki Search for another year here