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 – 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 – " Be My Love " ( music by Nicholas Brodszky ) introduced by Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson in the film The Toast of New Orleans.

Following the publication of Captain Sam Grant ( 1950 ) by historian and biographer Lloyd Lewis, Catton wrote the second and third volumes of this trilogy, making extensive use of Lewis's historical research, provided by his widow, Kathryn Lewis, who personally selected Catton to continue her husband's work.

In the early 1950s, Marge and Gower Champion made seven film musicals: Mr. Music ( 1950, with Bing Crosby ), the 1951 remake of Show Boat ( with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson ), 1952's Lovely to Look At ( a remake of Roberta, also with Keel and Grayson ), the autobiographical Everything I Have Is Yours ( 1952 ), Give a Girl a Break ( 1953, with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse ), Jupiter's Darling ( 1955, with Keel and Esther Williams ), and Three for the Show ( 1955, with Betty Grable and Jack Lemmon ).

His siblings include: Kathryn Kennedy ( 1897-1974 ) aka Sis Kennedy, who married Joseph O ' Malley ( 1893-1985 ) who was the uncle of Walter Francis O ' Malley ( 1903-1979 ), the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1950 to 1979 ; Mary Frances Kennedy ( 1898-1982 ); Josephine Kennedy ( 1899-1900 ) aka Sarah Kennedy ; Thomas Kennedy ( 1901-1972 ); James Gerard Kennedy I ( 1902-1903 ); and Joseph Kennedy ( 1905-1983 ).

Leedy married Kathryn " Bebe " Hoge, of Tampa, Florida on July 20, 1950 in Arlington, Virginia.

It was published in 1950 and featured in the 1950 movie The Toast of New Orleans, where it was sung by Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza.

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

* 1950 – L. Scott Caldwell, American actress

* 1950 – Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer

* 1884 – Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Wendie Malick, American actress

* 1950 – Heather North, American television and voice actress

* 1950 – Ellen Greene, American actress

* 1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress

* 1950 – Julie Walters, English actress

* 1950 – Ewa Aulin, Swedish actress

* 1950 – Barbara Sukowa, German actress

* 1950 – Cybill Shepherd, American actress

* Sara Allgood ( 1879 – 1950 ), Irish stage actress and later film actress in America

* 1950 – Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress

* 1885 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress

* 1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress

* 1950 – Suzi Quatro, English-American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actress ( The Pleasure Seekers / Cradle )

* 1902 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress

* 1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress

* 1950 – Susan George, English actress