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 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. Marty McFly uses lightning to power a time machine to go to October 26, 1985. Shortly before, Emmet Brown was inadvertently sent to January 1, 1885 in the same (though slightly more aged) time machine. 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.