page_title: 1950
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1950 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Ann Jillian on the red carpet at the 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, 8/28/88
context_page_description: 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Wanye Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coach
  Steve Ripley, American country singer (d. 2019)
  January 2
  Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
  David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
  Grant Adcox, American race car driver (d. 1989)
  January 3
  Victoria Principal, American actress (Dallas)
  Jane Sanders, American social worker, college administrator, and political staffer
  Vesna Vulović, Serbian plane crash survivor and Guinness World Record holder
  January 4
  Michael R. Blanchfield, American soldier (d. 1969)
  Carol J. Greenhouse, American anthropologist
  January 5
  Valentina Tăzlăuanu, Moldovan essayist, journalist and theatre critic (d. 2020)
  John Manley, Canadian politician
  Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor
  January 6
  Louis Freeh, American Director of the FBI
  Thomas J. Pickard, American Acting Director of the FBI
  January 7
  Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer, songwriter and philanthropist (d. 2016)
  Erin Gray, American actress (Dallas)
  January 8 – Michael Kearns, American actor
  January 9 – Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling
  January 10 – Ernie Wasson, American gardener, writer
  January 11 – Joel Seligman, American author
  January 12
  Sheila Jackson Lee, African-American politician
  Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-born British businesswoman; First Lady of Iceland
  January 14 – Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leader
  January 15 – Bob Krause (politician), American politician
  January 16
  Kalle Könkkölä, Finnish politician, human rights activist (d. 2018)
  Debbie Allen, African-American actress, dancer, and choreographer
  Bob Kulick, American guitarist and record producer (d. 2020)
  Sarah S. Vance, American judge
  January 17
  Steve Cuozzo, American writer, columnist
  Cristina Galbó, Spanish actress
  Honey Irani, Indian film actress, screenwriter
  Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
  January 18 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
  January 19 – Jon Matlack, American baseball player
  January 20 – Edward Hirsch, American poet
  January 21 – Billy Ocean, West Indian-born musician (Caribbean Queen)
  January 22 – Pamela Salem, British actress
  January 23 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (MacGyver)
  January 24
  Daniel Auteuil, French actor
  Gennifer Flowers, American actress, connected to Bill Clinton
  Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American author, scholar
  January 25
  Ronald Batory, Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration
  Gloria Naylor, American novelist (d. 2016)
  January 26
  Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
  Janet Lupo, American model
  January 27
  Derek Acorah, British spiritualist, medium (d. 2020)
  Ulrich Deppendorf, German journalist, television presenter
  January 29
  Ann Jillian, American actress
  Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
  Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, screenwriter
  January 30 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
  January 31 – Fred Karger, American political consultant
caption: Ann Jillian
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