1950s
1950
January 23 - Richard Dean Anderson is born.
March 11 - Jerry Zucker is born.
March 13 - William H. Macy is born.
March 26 - Martin Short is born.
April 1 - Samuel Alito is born.
May 7 - Tim Russert is born.
June 4 - George Noory is born.
July 5 - Huey Lewis is born.
July 30 - Frank Stallone is born.
August 14 - Gary Larson is born.
September 21 - Bill Murray is born.
October 12 - Takeshi Kaga is born.
December 25 - Karl Rove is born.
Late - Farmer in the Sky is published.
1951
January 9 - Brenda Gatzimos is born.
January 24 - Yakov Smirnov is born.
April 10 - Steven Seagal is born.
April 21 - Tony Danza is born.
May 21 - Al Franken is born.
July 21 - Robin Williams is born.
August 24 - Orson Scott Card is born.
August 30 - Timothy Bottoms is born.
September 25 - Mark Hamill is born.
?? - The Demolished Man is published.
1952
March 11 - Douglas Adams is born.
April 5 - Mitch Pileggi is born.
April 16 - Billy West is born.
May 14 - Robert Zemeckis is born.
June 7 - Liam Neeson is born.
June 20 - John Goodman is born.
July 1 - Dan Aykroyd is born.
July 17 - David Hasselhoff is born.
July 28 - Yoshitaka Amano is born.
August 18 - Patrick Swayze is born.
August 19 - Jonathan Frakes is born.
August 27 - Paul Reubens is born.
October 20 - Jack O'Neill is born.
October 22 - Jeff Goldblum is born.
November 16 - Shigeru Miyamoto is born.
December 9 - Michael Dorn is born.
December 10 - Clive Anderson is born.
December 23 - Bill Kristol is born.
1953
February 8 - Mary Steenburgen is born.
February 11 - Jeb Bush is born.
April 18 - Rick Moranis is born.
May 6 - Tony Blair is born.
May 30 - Colm Meaney is born.
July 27 - Yahoo Serious is born.
August 8 - Sam Beckett is born.
August 11 - Hulk Hogan is born.
November 3 - Dennis Miller is born.
November 18 - Kevin Nealon is born.
December 17 - Bill Pullman is born.
1954
January 3 - Ned Lamont is born.
January 6 - Yuji Horii is born.
January 19 - Katey Sagal is born.
January 29 - Oprah Winfrey is born.
February 15 - Matt Groening is born.
April 7 - Jackie Chan is born.
April 23 - Michael Moore is born.
April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld is born.
August 16 - James Cameron is born.
September 9 - Jeffrey Combs is born.
October 3 - Al Sharpton is born.
October 9 - Scott Bakula is born.
December 4 - Tony Todd is born.
December 23 - Dan Shea is born.
1955
January 6 - Rowan Atkinson is born.
February 15 - Christopher McDonald is born.
March 17 - Gary Sinise is born.
March 19 - Bruce Willis is born.
March 29 - Marina Sirtis is born.
April 5 - Akira Toriyama is born.
April 18 - Albert Einstein dies.
April 29 - Kate Mulgrew is born.
June 2 - Dana Carvey is born.
July 11 - In God We Trust added to US currency.
August 4 - Alberto Gonzales is born.
August 7 - Wayne Knight is born.
September 17 - Charles Martinet is born.
October 28 - Bill Gates is born.
November 5 - Emmet L. Brown invents time travel. Marty McFly arrives from October 26, 1985.
November 12 - Hill Valley lightning storm. Â Marty McFly uses lightning to power a time machine to go to October 26, 1985. Â Shortly before, Emmet Brown was inadvertently sent to January 1, 1885 in the same (though slightly more aged) time machine. Â Much earlier in the day, Biff Tannen arrived from and returned to October 21, 2015.
November 27 - Bill Nye is born.
December 26 - Evan Bayh is born.
1956
January 5 - Chen Kenichi is born.
January 20 - Bill Maher is born.
February 3 - Nathan Lane is born.
February 7 - Emo Philips is born.
March 11 - Rob Paulsen is born.
July 30 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a joint resolution of Congress making "In God We Trust" the national motto of the United States of America.
September 20 - Gary Cole is born.
September 23 - Peter David is born.
October 21 - Carrie Fisher is born.
October 28 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is born.
November 3 - Kevin Murphy is born.
1957
January 12 - John Lasseter is born.
January 14 - Humphrey Bogart dies.
February 16 - LeVar Burton is born.
March 10 - Osama bin Laden is born.
May 21 - Judge Reinhold is born.
July 21 - Jon Lovitz is born.
October 4 - Sputnik 1 is launched.
November 6 - Cam Clarke is born.
November 24 - Denise Crosby is born.
November 30 - Colin Mochrie is born.
1958
January 4 - Matt Frewer is born.
January 4 - Gary Jones is born.
March 30 - Maurice LaMarche is born.
May 23 - Drew Carey is born.
August 24 - Steve Guttenberg is born.
August 25 - Momofuku Ando announces the invention of the instant ramen noodle.
August 25 - Tim Burton is born.
August 29 - Michael Jackson is born.
August 30 - Frank Conniff is born.
September 15 - Wendie Jo Sperber is born.
November 6 - Trace Beaulieu is born.
1959
January 27 - Keith Olbermann is born.
March 21 - Nobuo Uematsu is born.
May 5 - Brian Williams is born.
May 20 - Bronson Pinchot is born.
May 23 - Ryūta Kawashima is born.
April 15 - Thomas F. Wilson is born.
September 21 - Dave Coulier is born.
September 23 - Jason Alexander is born.
October 3 - Greg Proops is born.
October 7 - Soviet probe Luna 3 first photographs the far side of the Moon.
October 17 - Norm Macdonald is born.
October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic is born.
November 9 - Tony Slattery is born.
December 6 - Satoru Iwata is born.