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 )

Subsequent chief conductors included Rafael Kubelík ( 1942 – 1948 ), Karel Ančerl ( 1950 – 1968 ), Václav Neumann ( 1968 – 1989 ), Jiri Belohlavek ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerd Albrecht ( 1993 – 1996 ), Vladimir Ashkenazy ( 1996 – 2003 ), and Zdeněk Mácal ( 2003 – 2007 ).

* James Stirling: Buildings and Projects 1950 – 1974 ( 1975 ) Verlag Gerd Hatje ( edited and designed by Léon Krier )

Since 1950, a committee of Aachen citizens annually awards the Karlspreis ( German for ‘ Charlemagne Award ’) to personalities of outstanding service to the unification of Europe.

In early 1950, the U. S. took its first efforts to oppose communist forces in Vietnam ; planned to form a West German army, and prepared proposals for a peace treaty with Japan that would guarantee long-term U. S. military bases there.

The CSU has led the Bavarian state government since it came into existence in 1946, save from 1950 to 1953 when the Bavaria Party formed a state government in coalition with the German Branches of the SPD and FDP.

* 1950 – Karlheinz Subklewe, German footballer

* 1950 – Barbara Sukowa, German actress

* 1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German night fighter pilot ( d. 1950 )

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

The Charter of the German Expellees () of August 5, 1950, announced their belief in requiring that " the right to the homeland is recognized and carried out as one of the fundamental rights of mankind given by God ", while renouncing revenge and retaliation in the face of the " unending suffering " ( unendliche Leid ) of the previous decade, and supporting the unified effort to rebuild Germany and Europe.

In 1950, the wreck of another German plane with 4 crew members was discovered on the southwest side of the island.

* 1862 – Walter Johannes Damrosch, German composer ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Thomas Gottschalk, German television host

* 1900 – Kurt Weill, German composer ( d. 1950 )

In 1950 1, 600 Masurians left the country and in 1951, 35, 000 people from Masuria and Warmia managed to obtain a declaration of their German nationality by the embassies of the US and Great Britain in Warsaw.

* 1950 – Michael Rother, German musician and composer ( Neu !, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia )

* 1950 – Klaus Wunder, German footballer

* August 20 – Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer ( b. 1950 )

* March 27 – Heinrich Mann, German writer ( d. 1950 )

** Max Beckmann, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1950 )

Her best known film roles were " Susanne Wallner " in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers Are Among Us ), the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by DEFA ); and in 1950, " Marina " in Die Sünderin ( The Sinner ), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German film history, causing a scandal.

A staunch believer in economic liberalism, Erhard joined the Mont Pelerin Society in 1950 and used this influential body of neoliberal economic and political thinkers to test his ideas for the reorganization of the West German economy.

* The Schuman Declaration, Robert Schuman's appeal in 1950 to place French and German coal and steel industries under joint management.

On 6 January 1950, the Soviets handed over Buchenwald to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs.

* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.

On 6 January 1950, the Soviets handed over Buchenwald to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs.