Mark Hamill is born.
A list of events in the 1950s related to Star Wars.
Births[]
1950[]
- February 21 – Larry Drake.
- March 6 – Allen Milgrom.
- March 26 – K. W. Jeter.
- April 5 – A. C. Crispin.
- April 13 – Ron Perlman.
- May 7 – Rick Veitch.
- May 13 – Joe Johnston.
- May 28 – Denny Delk.
- June 6 – John Byrne.
- June 13 – Stellan Skarsgård.
- June 26 – Tom DeFalco.
- July 6 – Geraldine James.
- July 10 – Nick Jameson.
- September 14 – Michael Reaves.
- September 24 – Harriet Walter.
- September 27 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
- October 1 – Natalia Nogulich.
- October 4 – Alan Rosenberg.
- October 4 – Tom Spackman.
- October 7 – Howard Chaykin.
- October 18 – Gerald Home.
- November 7 – Lindsay Duncan.
- November 30 – Chris Claremont.
- December 8 – Rick Baker.
- December 10 – Gregg Berger.
- ? – Ken Wheat.
1951[]
- February 5 – Robin Sachs.
- April 10 – Peter Bernstein.
- April 11 – Jay Benedict.
- April 17 – Olivia Hussey.
- June 24 – Mark Klastorin.
- July 9 – David Anthony Pizzuto.
- July 19 – Mark Capri.
- July 25 – Anthony Forrest.
- August 6 – Ed Hannigan.
- August 6 – Jack Klaff.
- August 13 – Gene Day.
- August 20 – Greg Bear.
- August 24 – Tony Amendola.
- August 28 – Barbara Hambly.
- September 1 – Timothy Zahn.
- September 25 – Mark Hamill.
- September 26 – Tom Veitch.
- September 27 – Jim Shooter.
- October 30 – P. Craig Russell.
- December 1 – Treat Williams.
- December 15 – David Bischoff.
- December 22 – Tony Isabella.
1952[]
- January 20 – Dave Fennoy.
- January 23 – Klaus Janson.
- January 27 – Steve Leialoha.
- March 1 – Steven Barnes.
- March 2 – Mark Evanier.
- April 17 – Joe Alaskey.
- May 30 – Mike W. Barr.
- July 1 – Brian George.
- June 7 – Liam Neeson.
- June 7 – Rick Hoberg.
- July 15 – Celia Imrie.
- July 16 – Stewart Copeland.
- July 21 – Kathy Tyers.
- August 4 – Kristoffer Tabori.
- August 23 – Terry Austin.
- August 27 – Paul Reubens.
- October 11 – Jim Woodring.
- October 18 – Jeff Moon.
- November 3 – Jim Cummings.
- November 17 – Duwayne Dunham.
- December 2 – Keith Szarabajka.
- December 19 – Linda Woolverton.
- December 23 – Elaine Baker.
- December 27 – Tovah Feldshuh.
- ? – Rick Carter.
- ? – Steve Gawley.
- ? – Terry Madden.
- ? – Jim Wheat.
1953[]
- January 27 – Richard Bremmer.
- March 21 – Taborah Johnson.
- March 27 – Patricia C. Wrede.
- April 18 – Howard Roffman.
- April 26 – Andrew Secombe.
- May 18 – Alan Kupperberg.
- May 25 –Stan Sakai.
- June 2 – Rick Berry.
- June 5 – Kathleen Kennedy.
- June 12 – Michael Donovan.
- July 14 – Dorothée.
- August 6 – Valerie Wildman.
- October 26 – Jennifer Roberson.
- October 27 – Peter Firth.
- October 29 – Adam Bareham.
- November 2 – Tom Lyle.
- November 18 – Alan Moore.
- November 23 – Carl Gafford.
- December 15 – J. M. DeMatteis.
- ? – Walter Jon Williams.
1954[]
- February 9 – Mary Jo Duffy.
- February 9 – Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
- March 1 – Ron Howard.
- April 10 – Peter MacNicol.
- April 14 – Chuck Dixon.
- April 26 – Kerry Gammill.
- April 27 – John Cygan.
- June 19 – Anthony Phelan.
- August 29 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
- August 30 – David Paymer.
- September 7 – Doug Bradley.
- September 26 – Craig Chaquico.
- October 27 – Jan Duursema.
- November 2 – Brian Augustyn.
- December 12 – Stephanie Steele.
- December 14 – James Horan.
- December 17 – Beau Smith.
- December 22 – Hugh Quarshie.
- ? – Terry Moore.
- ? – Simon Templeman.
1955[]
- February 1 – Diana Schutz.
- February 8 – Ethan Phillips.
- February 14 – James Eckhouse.
- February 22 – Mark Boudreaux.
- March 7 – Michael Jan Friedman.
- March 17 – Mark Boone Junior.
- May 12 – John Chapman.
- June 1 – Ralph Morse.
- June 15 – Brent Anderson.
- July 9 – Jimmy Smits.
- July 19 – Tudi Roche.
- July 27 – Roger Guenveur Smith.
- August 3 – Corey Burton.
- September 3 – Tim Landry.
- September 9 – Edward Hibbert.
- September 16 – Dirk Yohan Beer.
- September 17 – Charles Martinet.
- October 24 – Françoise Mouly.
- December 16 – Xander Berkeley.
- December 28 – Janice Chiang.
- ? – Clem Robins.
1956[]
- January 1 – Michael Gough.
- February 9 – Timothy Truman.
- February 28 – Lloyd Sherr.
- March 4 – Randy Stradley.
- March 11 – Rob Paulsen.
- April 26 – Koo Stark.
- May 13 – Kirk Thornton.
- June 18 – Alan Davis.
- June 30 – David Alan Grier.
- July 1 – Matt Jacobs.
- July 13 – Roger Jackson.
- July 17 – Tim Rose.
- August 30 – Adam Arkin.
- September 11 – Tony Gilroy.
- September 23 – Peter David.
- September 25 – Jamie Hyneman.
- September 28 – Kiran Shah.
- October 21 – Carrie Fisher.
- December 3 – Michael Gough.
- ? – Jerome Blake.
1957[]
- January 17 – Ann Nocenti.
- January 24 – Adrian Edmondson.
- January 27 – Frank Miller.
- February 1 – Gilbert Hernandez.
- February 7 – Dave Cooper.
- March 17 – Iain McCaig.
- March 29 – Elizabeth Hand.
- May 5 – Richard E. Grant.
- June 12 – Glynnis Talken Campbell.
- June 18 – Ralph Brown.
- July 30 – Victor Slezak.
- August 7 – Paul Dini.
- August 9 – Rick Leonardi.
- August 12 – Elaine Cunningham.
- August 13 – Kathleen Gati.
- August 27 – Jeff Grubb.
- September 26 – Roger MacBride Allen.
- October 10 – David Lodge.
- October 30 – Miguel A. Fuertes.
- October 30 – Kevin Pollack.
- November 6 – Cam Clarke.
- November 19 – Tom Virtue.
- November 27 – Michael A. Stackpole.
- December 1 – Deep Roy.
- December 11 – Peter Bagge.
- ? – Paul Chadwick.
- ? – Lawrence Holland.
- ? – Kathryn Hunter.
1958[]
- January 6 – Wayne Douglas Barlowe.
- February 7 – Kevin Schon.
- February 7 – Alastair Duncan.
- February 13 – Pernilla August.
- March 21 – Gary Oldman.
- March 23 – Michael Sorich.
- March 27 – Adrian Rawlins.
- March 30 – Maurice LaMarche.
- March 31 – Tony Cox.
- April 26 – Giancarlo Esposito.
- May 27 – Daniel Mindel.
- June 4 – Josef Rubinstein.
- June 9 – John Dukakis.
- June 25 – Joyce Kurtz.
- June 29 – Jeff Coopwood.
- July 2 – Jasper Jacob.
- July 2 – Stephen Rashbrook.
- August 1 – Adrian Dunbar.
- September 3 – Kevin Kiner.
- September 25 – Derek Lyons.
- October 8 – Troy Denning.
- October 13 – Charity James.
- October 22 – Michael Price.
- November 3 – Tracy Eddon.
- November 19 – Terrence Carson.
- ? – Chris Corbould.
- ? – Dave Dorman.
- ? – Ron James.
1959[]
- January 5 – Clancy Brown.
- January 7 – Karl Kesel.
- January 20 – R. A. Salvatore.
- February 3 – Jimmy Vee.
- February 8 – Aaron McClellan.
- April 20 – Clint Howard.
- May 19 – Jim Ward.
- June 24 – John Gilroy.
- June 24 – Dan Gilroy.
- July 5 – Pablo Helman.
- July 8 – Stan Woch.
- July 19 – Luke McDonnell.
- July 22 – Nigel D. Findley.
- October 3 – Greg Proops.
- October 13 – Wayne Pygram.
- October 23 – "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- December 14 – Debbie Lee Carrington.
Events[]
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is founded on June 23, 1953.
- Disneyland opens in 1955.
- Galoob is founded in 1957.
