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 )

Tina Darragh ( born 1950 ) is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets.

In 1950 three locomotives were stationed at Swindon and three at Weymouth.

* Hon Sir Claude Ernest Weymouth James, Kt 1937 – 1950

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

* Arthur Wellesley Hughes ( 1870 – 1950 ), also known as Arthur Wellesley, Canadian musician and composer

* 1950 – Dan Hartman, American musician ( Edgar Winter Group ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1950 – Roger Fisher, American musician ( Heart )

* 1950 – Andy Powell, British musician ( Wishbone Ash )

* 1950 – Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, English musician and performer

* 1950 – David Brown, American musician ( Santana ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1950 – Jonathan Cain, American musician

* 1950 – Bob Daisley, Australian musician, bassist ( Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne )

* 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English musician ( Genesis ), composer and humanitarian

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

* 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American singer and musician ( Little River Band )

* 1950 – Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Foreigner and Shadow King )

* 1950 – Mary Hopkin, Welsh Singer-songwriter and musician

* 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American singer, musician, and composer ( Devo )

* 1950 – Billy Squier, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1950 – Tom Petersson, American musician ( Cheap Trick )

* 1950 – Danny Kirwan, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and activist

* 1950 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician ( Shadowfax ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1950 – Michael Been, American singer / songwriter / musician ( The Call ( band )) ( d. 2010 )

* 1950 – Roger Hodgson, English musician ( Supertramp )

* 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician

* 1950 – Chris Glen, Scottish musician ( The Sensational Alex Harvey Band )

* 1950 – Robert Kool Bell, American musician ( Kool & the Gang )