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 – 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 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler

* 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 )

It was not until the 1950s, beginning with the release of Caged ( 1950 ), starring Eleanor Parker and Agnes Moorehead, So Young, So Bad ( also 1950 ), and Women's Prison ( 1955 ) with Ida Lupino and Cleo Moore, that an entire film was set inside a women's correctional facility.

Born in Essex, he made his film debut in Flame in the Heather in 1935, and went on to make many other appearances in such films as Fire Over England ( 1936 ), Treasure Island ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ivanhoe ( 1952 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), Saint Joan ( 1957 ), From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Carry On Cleo ( 1964 ) and The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ).

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

* 1872 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Sudha Murty, Indian social worker and writer

* 1950 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

* 1950 – Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer

A scene from In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), directed by Nicholas Ray and based on a novel by Hardboiled # Noir fiction | noir fiction writer Dorothy B. Hughes.

* 1904 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish writer ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer

* 1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American writer

* 1950 – David Duke, American politician, writer, activist, and white supremacist

* 1950 – John Byrne, American writer and illustrator ( X-Men )

* 1950 – J. R. Morgan, English writer and scholar

* 1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer

* 1950 – Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer

* 1950 – Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer

After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in May 1950.

* 1950 – Ian Bradley, English writer and academic

* 1950 – John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist

* 1950 – Joe Queenan, American writer

* 1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian writer

* 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer

* 1950 – Meg Bennett, American writer and actress

In the 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, science fiction novel writer Isaac Asimov depicted a future Earth with a largely radioactive crust, humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between.