Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.

* 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic ( d. 1914 )

* 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician ( b. 1780 )

* Richard Butler ( Australian politician ) ( 1850 – 1925 ), Premier of South Australia

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

Richard Mentor Johnson ( October 17, 1780 or 1781 – November 19, 1850 ) was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren ( 1837 – 1841 ).

His son, Richard Maxwell Drew was born in Overton and served as a district judge state representative prior to his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.

This bugle was highly popular and widely in use until c. 1850 – for example, in works by Richard Willis, later bandmaster of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point.

A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned.

Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform.

Amongst those at the 47th performance in February 1850 was Richard Wagner, now an impoverished political exile ; the success of a work so fundamentally against his own operatic principles was one of the spurs to his spiteful anti-Jewish denunciation of Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, ' Das Judenthum in der Musik ' ( 1850 ).

His son, Richard Schumacher ( 1827 – 1902 ), was his assistant from 1844 to 1850 at the conservatory at Altona.

* Richard Mentor Johnson ( 1780 – 1850 ), Ninth Vice President of the United States

One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.

* Richard Mentor Johnson ( 1780 – 1850 ), United States politician and Vice President

* 1846 – 1850 Richard Lalor Sheil

" Richard Rush published this " Advice " in 1850, by which time Southern spirit was so high that it was denounced as a forgery.

In 1850, the German composer Richard Wagner published Das Judenthum in der Musik (" Jewishness in Music ") under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.

* Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ), U. S. army officer

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. ( 1796November 2, 1850 ) was the 27th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1835 to 1836.

The boundaries had already been sorted out back in 1850 at a huge hui chaired by Wanganui missionary Richard Taylor, with most of the Murimotu land being allotted to various hapu of Ngati Rangi, but no money was at stake back then, and in the intervening 20 years the Hauhau / Titokowaru / Te Kooti wars had been fought, creating new power groups and enmities, especially between the coastal Whanganui guerilla leader Major Kemp / Te Keepa and his upper river rival, Major Topia Turoa, and consequently numerous conflicting claims were put forward.

In 1850 Gould built a Post Office and named the fledgling settlement Cobden after Richard Cobden, a member of British Parliament whom Gould admired.

In 1850 he visited the University of Bonn, where he attended some of the lectures of Friedrich Bleek, Richard Rothe, C. M. Arndt, and Isaak Dorner.

Richard Vincent Whelan ( Dec 19, 1840-Jul 23, 1850 )

On June 17, 1850, shortly after Forrest had filed for divorce in the New York Supreme Court, Forrest beat Willis with a gutta-percha whip in New York's Washington Square, shouting " this man is the seducer of my wife ".

The Fox girls became famous and their public séances in New York in 1850 attracted notable people including William Cullen Bryant, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Horace Greeley, Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison.

Willis was involved in the 1850 divorce suit between the actor Edwin Forrest and his wife Catherine.

On June 17, 1850, shortly after Forrest had filed for divorce in the New York Supreme Court, Forrest beat Willis with a gutta-percha whip in New York's Washington Square, shouting " this man is the seducer of my wife ".

By 1850 and with the publication of Hurry-Graphs, Willis was becoming a forgotten celebrity.

By 1850, the Dimery Settlement had grown to at least four families: that of John Dimery, Willis Thompkins, Cockran Thompkins, and Sara Cook, for a total of some 27 individuals.

* 1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer ( d. 1927 )

* 1850 – George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer ( d. 1934 )

* 1850 – Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer ( d. 1918 )

* 1850 – Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer ( d. 1924 )

** Robert Planquette, French composer ( b. 1850 )

* October 15 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer ( b. 1850 )

Verdi was commissioned to write a new opera by the La Fenice opera house in Venice in 1850, at a time when he was already a well-known composer with a degree of freedom in choosing the works he would prefer to set to music.

* Tomás Bretón ( 1850 – 1923 ), Spanish musician and composer

* Adalbert Gyrowetz () ( 1763 – 1850 ), composer

By 1850, Rubinstein had decided that he did not want to be known solely as a pianist, " but as a composer performing his symphonies, concertos, operas, trios, etc.

* November 9-Ole Olsen, organist, composer and conductor ( b. 1850 )

* December 8 – Xaver Scharwenka, pianist and composer ( b. 1850 )

* December 2-Tomás Bretón, composer ( b. 1850 )

* March 10-Hans Sitt, violinist and composer ( b. 1850 )

* December 30-Richard Zeckwer, composer and music teacher ( b. 1850 )

* February 2-Theo Marzials, singer and composer ( b. 1850 )

* February 7-Alexander Taneyev, composer ( b. 1850 )

* October 28-Richard Heuberger, composer ( b. 1850 )

* May 24 – Heinrich Reimann, organist and composer ( born 1850 )

* July 29 – Alexandre Luigini, composer ( born 1850 )

* September 4-Hermann Zumpe, conductor and composer ( b. 1850 )

** F. W. Meacham, composer and arranger ( b. c. 1850 )

* March 20-Arthur Goring Thomas, composer ( born 1850 ) ( suicide )

* Iver Holter ( 1850 – 1941 ) was a composer and was conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 until 1886.