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 – 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 )

On August 14, 1950, twelve climbers ( V. Aksenov, K, Zaporojchenko, Y. Izrael, V. Kovalev, A. Kormshikov, Y. Maslov, E. Nagel, V. Narishkin, V. Nikonov, V. Nozdryuhin, I. Rojkov ) under the direction of Vladimir Racek reached the summit for the fourth time.

* 1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1950 )

Vaslav ( or Vatslav ) Nijinsky (; ; ; ; March 12, 1889 / 1890April 8, 1950 ) was a Russian danseur and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

* Vaslav Nijinsky ( 1890 – 1950 ), Russian ballet dancer

Afghan girl scouts, dressed up in Western clothing, managed by the local Russian authorities, 1950 c ..

Modernist architect and Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin's listed Spa Green Estate, constructed 1943 – 1950, has recently been restored.

Alberto Gerchunoff ( January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950 ), was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

Founded in 1950, the School of Letters and Humanities, the nucleus of the FUM, offers graduate and postgraduate degrees in the fields of the Persian language and literature, English language and literature, Arabic language and literature, French language and literature, Russian language and literature, geography, Iranian history, social sciences, and linguistics.

* April 20-Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer and teacher of Polish birth ( d. 1950 )

Russian male and female life expectancy since 1950.

In 1950 – 1991, when the nearby large port of Vladivostok was closed to foreigners and foreign shipping, Nakhodka became the primary deep water port in the Russian Far East.

In 1950 he was appointed vicar of the Russian Patriarchal parish in London.

* Russian Imperialism: How to Stop It ( 1950 );

Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics approximately between 1946 and 1950, it only became a non-labour day in Ukrainian ( 1963 ) and Russian ( 1965 ) SSRs.

He joined the CIA as a case officer in 1950 ( his brother-in-law Frank Lindsay had been head of the OSS's Office of Policy Coordination which was one of the predecessors of the CIA ) spending three years in West Germany recruiting anti-Soviet Russian refugees and training them how to undermine Stalin's regime.

Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (; April 20, 1950, Novocherkassk – April 28, 2002, Abakan ) was a Russian lieutenant-general and politician.

Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov (; born 1 September 1950 ) is a Russian politician and statesman who was the Prime Minister of Russia from March 2004 to September 2007.

Nicolai Hartmann (; 20 February 1882 in Riga, Livonia Governorate, Russian Empire – 9 October 1950 in Göttingen, West Germany ) was a Baltic German philosopher.

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (; ; born 21 March 1950 ) is a Russian diplomat who has been the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004.

Unable to find an academic position in Leningrad due to anti-Semitism ( he was unable to apply for a PhD program ), Lotman went to Estonia in 1950 and from 1954 began his work as a lecturer at the Department of Russian language and literature of Tartu University and later became head of the department.

From 1944 to 1950, only 17 instances of tiger attacking bears were recorded in the Russian Far East.

In August 1950, Boris Pasternak's Russian language translation of the first part led him to be attacked in the Soviet literary journal Novy Mir.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin ( also spelled Lusin ; ; 9 December 1883 – 28 January 1950 ) was a Soviet / Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

Among his numerous awards are Stalin Prize ( 1946, 1950 ), Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1968, 1978 ), State Prize of the Russian Federation, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, National Hero of Armenia.

Hambardzumyan was awarded two Stalin Prizes ( 1946, 1950 ), the Russian Federation State Award and M. V. Lomonosov ( 1971 ) Gold Medal of Academy of Science of the USSR.