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 )

* 1950 – Richard F. Colburn, American politician

* 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian / American theatre director and critic

* 1950 – Zachary Richard, American singer-songwriter and poet

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

* December 18 – Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer ( d. 1950 )

The American mathematician Richard Hamming pioneered this field in the 1940s and invented the first error-correcting code in 1950: the Hamming ( 7, 4 ) code.

In telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming ( 7, 4 )- code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.

In 1947, he directed the courtroom drama Boomerang !, and in 1950 he directed Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, in a thriller shot on the streets of New Orleans.

In 1950, the first MBA degrees awarded outside the United States were by the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario in Canada, followed in 1951 with the degree awarded by the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

* 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan

However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience.

* A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 ( 1950 ) with Alister Kershaw

He began attending Shrewsbury School in 1950, where he met his future Private Eye colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker.

* Casimir directed by Richard Pottier ( 1950 )

* Meurtres directed by Richard Pottier ( 1950 )

*** Michael Attenborough ( born 1950 ), English theatre director ; son of Richard

In 1950, he worked alongside Richard Nixon to reduce the French influence in Vietnam as well as asking the United States to attempt to cooperate with the French in the aid of strengthening Diem's Army.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson ( born 18 July 1950 ) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.

* 1950: Luke Holtgeerts, Dwight McMaster, William Osborne, Richard Taylor, Otto Zahler, Leon Novak

* 1950: Luke Holtgeerts, Dwight McMaster, William Osborne, Richard Taylor, Otto Zahler, Leon Novak

In 1950, CBS asked Ball to take My Favorite Husband to television with co-star Richard Denning.

* Hartshorne, Richard ( Jan, 1950 ).

His siblings are Richard ( b. 12 July 1946 ), Margaret ( b. 27 Feb 1950 ) and Janet ( b. 30 Aug 1960 ).

* Richard Kessel ( born 1950 ), American businessman