The year 1950 dawned on a United States whose population had crossed the 150 million mark. Disney’s Cinderella debuted on the silver screen, the comic stip Peanuts made its first appearance, and the first Volkswagen Microbus rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno, musicians Peter Gabriel, Natalie Cole, Peter Frampton, David Cassidy and Stevie Wonder — along with actors Bill Murray, Ed Harris, Martin Short and Richard Dean Anderson — were all born into the world in 1950.
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Top baby names of 1950
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Source: US Social Security Administration
