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 – 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 )

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

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

D. David Bourland, Jr. ( 1928 – 2000 ) proposed E-Prime as an addition to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950.

* 1950 – David Brown, American musician ( Santana ) ( d. 2000 )

F. Phillip Bowden and David Tabor ( 1950 ) showed that at a microscopic level, the actual area of contact between surfaces is a very small fraction of the apparent area.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

From 1950 to 1955, Simon studied mathematical economics and during this time, together with David Hawkins, discovered and proved the Hawkins – Simon theorem on the “ conditions for the existence of positive solution vectors for input-output matrices.

* 1950 – David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist

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

* 1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-English disk jockey

She and Jackie had three children: Jackie Robinson Jr. ( born November 18, 1946 ), Sharon Robinson ( born January 13, 1950 ), and David Robinson ( born May 14, 1952 ).

* 1950 – David Leisure, American actor

* 1950 – David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Bellamy Brothers )

* April 7 – David Graf, American actor ( b. 1950 )

The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.

Other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road ( 1949 ); a role in the violent film noir The Damned Don't Cry ( 1950 ), and the title role of Harriet Craig ( 1950 ), a movie which she herself claimed during a David Frost interview, reflected her own brand of control freakery-a movie made at Columbia Pictures.

In 1950, David H. Shepard, a cryptanalyst at the Armed Forces Security Agency in the United States, addressed the problem of converting printed messages into machine language for computer processing and built a machine to do this, called " Gismo .".

He was educated at Reed College, studying under David H. French, and graduated in 1950 after a stint in prewar Korea.

David E. Lilienthal, who chaired the AEC from its creation until 1950.

The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

David Brooks reprised his role of Tommy in the Summertime Light Opera's production in Houston, Texas in 1950, with Gregg Juarez as Jeff and Dorothy MacNeil of the New York City Opera as Fiona.

Mitchell David Kapor ( born 1 November 1950 ) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.

Notable organists at Worcester have included Thomas Tomkins ( from 1596 ), Hugh Blair ( from 1895 ), Ivor Atkins ( from 1897 ) and David Willcocks ( from 1950 ).