1950 deaths

Czechoslovak politician and resistance fighter (1901-1950)

Oglala Lakota leader (1863–1950)

Swiss composer, musician and music educator (1865-1950)

Irish actress (1880-1950)

Italian composer (1866-1950)

French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)

French composer, teacher and writer on music

Russian mathematician (1883–1950)

German entrepreneur and inventor of the coffee filter (1873–1950)

Turkish poet (1914–1950)

American politician (1869-1950)

British athlete and olympian (1872-1950)

French courtesan, dancer and novelist, editor

American feminist, journalist and human rights advocate (1857-1950)

French politician, Prime Minister of France (1868-1950)

Galician writer, painter, doctor and politician (1886-1950)

French fencer and painter (1877-1950)

Spanish diplomat and writer (1863-1950)

British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950)

Danish journalist and author (1872–1950)

Romanian aviation pioneer (1872–1950)

Korean novelist (1892–1950)

Soviet economist (1903-1950)

British racing cyclist (1867–1950)

Prime Minister of Romania (1872-1950)

Latvian writer (1901–1950)

Russian writer (1873–1950)

Romanian general (1882-1950)

Chinese soldier, son of Chairman Mao Zedong of China (1922-1950)

Japanese physicist (1865–1950)

President of Venezuela (1909-1950)

Argentine association football player (1908-1950)

Indian Bengali author (1894–1950)

Spanish politician (1884-1950)

Russian theatre director (1885–1950)

American jazz trumpeter (1923–1950)

Indian Independence Activist and 1st Chief Minister of Assam

American businessman (1864–1950)

United States Senator from Arkansas and first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first woman to preside over the senate, first woman to chair a senate committee, and first woman to preside over a senate hearing (1878–1950)

Turkish military officer and statesperson (1889–1950)

Irish film director (1892–1950)

Sudirman (; 24 January 1916 – 29 January 1950) was an Indonesian military officer and revolutionary during the Indonesian National Revolution.

American classical scholar (1906-1950)

American journalist, writer, Comintern spy (1892-1950)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1950)

only person to have been a dwarf and a giant (1899–1950)

Ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1921 to 1950.

American journalist (1875–1950)

Finnish linguist and diplomat (1873–1950)

Hungarian fencer (1880–1950)

German writer (1887-1950)

American film director and producer (1886-1950)

American actor and film director (1877-1950)

Georgian philosopher

SS officer and physician (1900–1950)

Greek politician (1875-1950)

Soviet colonel general (1896–1950)

Dutch physicist (1889–1950)

Russian philosopher (1877–1950)

American white-supremacist historian, political scientist, journalist (1883–1950)