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 – 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 )

Lance Allan Ito ( born August 2, 1950 ) is an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding decision during the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

* 1950 DA-an approximately 1-km wide asteroid with a possible Earth impact in 2880 ( initially studied by Ostro, Jon Giorgini, Lance Benner, and Scott Hudson ).

* " Lance Riordan " ( Captain Zenith, Martin and Reid, 1950 )

The publication of a full translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Ito in 1950 led to a famous obscenity trial in Japan, extending from 8 May 1951 to 18 January 1952, with appeals lasting to 13 March 1957.

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 – Alex Kozinski, Romanian-American judge

Hot Springs was the home of prominent Democratic attorney Q. Byrum Hurst, a member of the Arkansas State Senate from 1950 – 1972 and the Garland County administrative judge from 1947-1950.

* Michael Myers ( judge ) ( 1873 – 1950 ), sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand

Following his military service, Moss returned to Salt Lake City and was re-elected as city judge, serving in that position until his resignation in 1950.

Hall was elected county judge of Rockwall County in November 1950.

* William Duane Benton ( born 1950 ), U. S. judge

* Mark W. Bennett ( born 1950 ), U. S. federal judge

Young served as a lawyer for Nueces County, Texas in various positions, as assistant county attorney in 1946, assistant district attorney from 1947 to 1950, county attorney from 1951 to 1952 and county judge from 1953 to 1956.

Around 1950, Ponti, while serving as a judge in a beauty contest, met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro.

After the war, he ran a successful campaign for county judge ( chief executive ) of Davidson County in 1950, serving until 1963.

* Art O ' Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge ( died 1950 ).

In 1950 he was appointed county court judge in Surrey.

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* Richard A. Jones ( born 1950 ), U. S. federal judge

* Anne C. Conway ( born 1950 ), United States federal judge

* Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt ( born 1950 ), German politician and senior judge

* Yasmin Abbasey ( born 1950 ), Pakistani judge

Thomas Day Thacher ( September 10, 1881 – November 12, 1950 ) was a lawyer and judge in New York City.

Erik Møse ( born 9 October 1950 ) is a Norwegian judge.

* Nicholas Patten ( born 1950 ), English judge

Consuelo María (" Connie ") Callahan ( born June 9, 1950 ) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

His son Roland Leckie was the member for the state seat of Evelyn from 1950 to 1952 and later a crown prosecutor and a judge of the County Court.