Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

13, No. 1 ( Feb., 1950 ), pp. 76 – 77.

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1950 – Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

* 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author

* 1950 – Kathryn Harrold, American actress

* 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge

* 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate ( d. 1994 )

* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )

* Nedelkovh, Aleksandar B. British and American Science Fiction Novel 1950 – 1980 with the Theme of Alternative History ( an Axiological Approach ).

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach

* 1950 – John Landis, American director

* 1950 – Jo Marie Payton, American actress

Spanish historiography was influenced by the " Annales School " starting in 1950 with Jaime Vincens Vives ( 1910 – 1960 ).

* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer ( The Bar-Kays )

James " Jimmy " Golden ( born August 1, 1950 ) is an third generation American professional wrestler, who is known as Bunkhouse Buck by the older audiences ( 1970's-1990's ) and Jack Swagger, Sr by the younger audiences ( 2010's-present ).

ABC attempted to cash in on the burgeoning television science fiction market with a small screen version of Buck Rogers in 1950, but failed within months.

The protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, Colonel Dick Cantwell, based on World War II commander Charles " Buck " Lanham, uses the phrase to his driver.

Ford was married to Betty Heminger from September 18, 1942, until her death on February 26, 1989 ; they had two children — Jeffrey Buckner “ Buck ” Ford ( born January 6, 1950 ) and Brion Leonard Ford ( born September 3, 1952 in San Gabriel, California-died October 24, 2008 in White House, Tennessee, of lung cancer at age 56 ).

Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., now known as The Topps Company, Inc., started inserting trading cards into bubble gum packs in 1950 — with such topics as TV and film cowboy Hopalong Cassidy ; " Bring ' Em Back Alive " cards featuring Frank Buck on big game hunts in Africa ; and All-American football cards.

Running for a single season, 1950 – 1951, ABC ’ s Buck Rogers starred Kem Dibbs and later Robert Pastene in the lead role.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1950 – David Graf, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1950 – Gary Larson, American cartoonist

* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )

* 1950 – Tom Kelly, American baseball player and manager

* 1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs were massacred by the North Korean Army.

* 1950 – Bloody Gulch massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.

* 1950 – Jim Beaver, American actor and scriptwriter

* 1888 – Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Osamu Kido, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1950 – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1950 – Kamala, American wrestler

* Bull Montana ( 1887 – 1950 ), wrestler, actor

* Jim Harris ( wrestler ) ( born 1950 ), American professional wrestler, better known as Kamala

A former territory wrestler who was blinded in a 1950 auto accident, Leroy McGuirk eventually took over promoting a wrestling circuit that covered Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

* Kamala ( wrestler ) aka James Harris ( born 1950 ), professional wrestler

* Greg Valentine ( born 1950 ), American professional wrestler

Takhti won his first Iranian championship in 1950, and on his first trip abroad in 1951, he won a silver medal at the world freestyle championships in Helsinki-the first international medal ever gained by an Iranian wrestler.

Robert Keith Orton ( born November 10, 1950 ) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, " Cowboy " Bob Orton.

James Harris ( born May 28, 1950 ) is a retired American professional wrestler.

* Bob Orton, Jr. ( born 1950 ), American professional wrestler and son of Bob Orton, Sr.

Charles Donald " Don " Kernodle, Jr. ( born May 2, 1950 ) was an American professional wrestler with the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions.

* Takanohana Kenshi ( 1950 – 2005 ), sumo wrestler and head of Futagoyama stable

He also played a wrestler called " The Strangler " in Night and the City ( 1950 ).