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Helen Holmes
American actress (1893–1950)
Karel Koželuh
Czech sportsperson (1895–1950)
Christy Cabanne
American film director, screenwriter and actor (1888-1950)
Chen Yi
Chinese politician, Kuomintang (1883-1950)
Friedrich Gerhard
German equestrian
Henri François Pittier
Swiss botanist (1857-1950)
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
American botanist (1873-1950)
Anders Peter Nielsen
Danish sport shooter (1867-1950)
Louis Wilkins
athletics competitor (1882-1950)
Agnes Repplier
American essayist (1855–1950)
Frederic Lewy
American neurologist (1885–1950)
Mikhail Tskhakaya
Soviet politician (1865-1950)
Carter Godwin Woodson
American historian, writer, and journalist (1875–1950)
Riccardo Nowak
Italian fencer (1885–1950)
Ren Bishi
Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1904-1950)
André Sainte-Laguë
French mathematician (1882-1950)
Giuseppe De Luca
Italian opera singer (1876–1950)
Antonina Zubkova
Aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1920–1950)
Hanka Ordonówna
Polish actress, singer and dancer (1902–1950)
Frederic Zelnik
Austrian film producer (1885–1950)
Konrad von Preysing
German Roman Catholic cardinal (1880-1950)
Betty Francisco
American actress (1900–1950)
Hedwig Courths-Mahler
German writer (1867–1950)
Monty Banks
Italian comedian and director (1897–1950)
Gemma Bellincioni
singer
Horace Rice
Australian tennis player (1872–1950)
Othmar Spann
Austrian philosopher (1878-1950)
Wally O'Connor
American swimmer and water polo player (1903-1950)
Henryk Grossman
Polish-German academic and revolutionary (1881-1950)
Alberto Ohaco
Argentine footballer (1889-1950)
Hubert Stevens
bobsledder (1890–1950)
James Stephens
Irish author (1882-1950)
Alice Vanderbilt Morris
Vanderbilt family member
Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg
Danish Royal
Saleh al-Ali
Prominent Syrian Alawi leader (1884–1950)
Vavro Šrobár
Czechoslovak politician (1867-1950)
Max Reyter
Soviet general
Onni Pellinen
Olympic wrestler (1899-1950)
Jean-Pierre Stock
French rower (1900-1950)
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Dutch religious studies scholar and politician (1890–1950)
Fritz Kampers
German actor (1891-1950)
Prince Hubertus of Prussia
German prince (1909-1950)
Hobart Cavanaugh
American actor (1886-1950)
Erik Bergvall
Swedish water polo player (1880-1950)
Karl Straube
German organist and choral conductor (1873–1950)
Guðjón Samúelsson
Icelandic architect (1887-1950)
Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg
Luxembourgian princess (1901-1950)
Joseph d'Arbaud
French poet and felibre (1874-1950)
Tommaso Costantino
Italian fencer (1885–1950)
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and interior decorator (1865-1950)
Gábor P. Szabó
Hungarian footballer (1902–1950)
Karl Sandelin
Gymnast, yacht racer (1887–1950)
Marc Sangnier
French politician (1873-1950)
Mammad Said Ordubadi
Azerbaijani writer (1872-1950)
Timothy Evans
British man wrongly convicted of murder (1924-1950)
Walter Damrosch
German American conductor and composer (1862–1950)
Isaiah Bowman
American geographer (1878–1950)
Ernest Cook Poole
American journalist and novelist (1880-1950)
Hertha Wambacher
Austrian physicist (1903-1950)
Piramerd
Tawfeq Mahmoud Hamza known as Piramerd () (1867 – 19 June 1950) was a Kurdish poet, writer, novelist and journalist. He was born in the Goija neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region. In 1926, he became the editor of the Kurdish newspaper Jîyan. He also established a private Kurdish school in Kurdistan, called Pertûkxaney Zanistî (Scientific School).