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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1947 1948 1949 - 1950 - 1951 1952 1953

1950 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country) Rail transport - Radio - Science - Spaceflight
Sports - Television
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Deaths - Works - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It is also the index year, or year 0, that scientists use for before present figures.

Events of 1950

January

January 1 - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organization in the world - is formed.
January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of organized crime in the U.S.
January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
January 9 - The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.
January 9 - Jarl Hjalmarson becomes new Rightist leader in Sweden after Fritiof Domö.
January 11 - Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa, Bataan in the Philippines.

January 15: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

January 26: India forms a republic.

January 12 - The British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die.
January 12 - Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivers his 'Perimeter Speech', outlining the boundary of U.S. security guarantees.
January 13 - Finland forms diplomatic relations to People's Republic of China.
January 17 - Great Brinks Robbery: 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 21 - Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
January 23 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
January 24 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs, German émigré and physicist, walks into London's War Office and confesses to being a Soviet spy: for 7 years, he passed top secret data on U.S. and British nuclear weapons research to the Soviet Union;^[1] formally charged February 2.
January 26 - India promulgates its constitution, forming a republic, and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
January 28 - Somaliland is put under Italian mandate.
January 29 - Lord Balfour criticizes the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain.
January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.^[1]
January 31 - The last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.

February

February 1 - Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as a president of the Republic of China.
February 4 - Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in the U.S.
February 9 - Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hote in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
February 11 - Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
February 11 - Finland recognizes Indonesia.
February 12 - Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris.
February 12 - The European Broadcasting Union is founded.
February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
February 13 - The U.S. Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets.
February 13 - The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.
February 14 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
February 15 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected president of Finland.
February 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.

March

March 1 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.
March 1 - Acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office.
March 1 - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese president after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan.
March 3 - Poland states that it intends to exile all Germans.
March 8 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
March 8 - The first Volkswagen Type 2 van (also known as the Volkswagen Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
March 12 - A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives.
March 12-March 13 - In Belgium, the referendum over the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of King Léopold III, 42.3% against.
March 14 - The ship Cygnet hits a mine off the Dutch coast.
March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they have named "californium".
March 20 - The Polish government decides to confiscate the property of the Polish Catholic Church.
March 22 - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal.
March 23 - The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held.

April

April 15 - Belgian King Leopold III announces that he is ready to abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin.
April 24 - Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.
April 27 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races.
April 27 - Britain formally recognises Israel.

May

May 6 - The town of Cazin (Bosnia) rises up against Communist agrarian reforms.
May 6 - Tollund Man is unearthed in Denmark.
May 9 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal for the creation of a pan-European organisation, which he believes to be indispensable to the maintenance of permanently peaceful relations between the different nations of the continent. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
May 9 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
May 11 - The Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime begin.
May 13 - The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone, England.
May 14 - The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
May 25 - The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
May 27 - The Linnanmäki amusement park opens in Finland.
May 29 - St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June

June 1 - Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting.
June 3 - Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
June 6 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
June 8 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
June 23 - Mauna Loa stops erupting.
June 25 - Korean War: North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into South Korea.
June 26 - The South African Parliament passes the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950.
June 27 - Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea.
June 28 - Korean War: North Korean forces capture Seoul.
June 29 - United States defeats England 1-0 in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

July

July 16 - Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 to win the 1950 World Cup.
July 17 - The Suppression of Communism Act, passed on June 26, comes into force in South Africa.

August

August 5 - Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
August 5 - A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California; 17 are killed, 68 injured.
August 6 - Monarchist demonstrations lead to a riot in Brussels.
August 8 - Winston Churchill supports idea of a pan-European army allied with Canada and the U.S.
August 12 - In his encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that did not contradict essential Catholic teachings.
August 15 - An earthquake and floods in Assam, India kill 574 and leave 5,000,000 homeless.
August 22 - The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is founded in Tagbilaran City, Philippines.
August 23 - Legendary singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport has recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.

September

September 4 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
September 4 - The comic strip Beetle Bailey is created by Mort Walker.
September 7 - A coal mine collapse in New Cumnock, Scotland kills 13 miners; 116 are rescued.
September 7 - The game show Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
September 8 - The Defense Production Act is enacted into law in the U.S., shaping American military contracting for the next 60 years.
September 9 - The U.S. state of California celebrates its centennial anniversary.
September 12 - Communist riots erupt in Berlin.
September 15 - Korean War - Battle of Inchon: Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.
September 19 - West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
September 26 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
September 30 - NSC-68 is enacted by President Truman, setting U.S. foreign policy for the next 20 years.

October

October 2 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in 7 U.S. newspapers.
October 3 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is elected president of Brazil for a 5-year term.
October 5 - The Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas.
October 7 - The 1950-1951 invasion of Tibet by China begins.
October 7 - The Agate Pass Bridge opens for traffic in Washington State.
October 11 - The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
October 15 The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens.
October 15 - In East Germany, the Communists win 99.7% of the vote.
October 20 - Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, which is later struck down by the High Court.
October 28 - Torcida Split is founded.
October 30 - The Jayuya Uprising is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.

November

November 1 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican^[2] and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism: that God assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death.
November 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
November 4 - The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.
November 8 - Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
November 10 - A U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisons and detonates a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada (the device lacked its plutonium core).
November 11 - The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles as the first gay-liberation organization.
November 13 - Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas.
November 13 - A Curtiss Reid Flying Services plane crashes while enroute to Paris from Rome, killing all 52 on board.
November 18 - The United Nations accepts the formation of the Libyan National Council.
November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
November 22 - Anti-British riots erupt in Egypt.
November 22 - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business.
November 25 - A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern United States, brings 30 to 50 inches of snow, temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
November 26 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces at Chosin, dashing any hopes for a quick end to the conflict.
November 28 - Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations.
November 29 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
November 29 - The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.
November 30 - Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.

December

December 3 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily.
December 11-December 13 - The Maria Hertogh riots occur in Singapore, leaving 18 dead and 173 injured.
December 12 - Paula Ackerman becomes the first woman in the United States to serve a congregation as a Rabbi.
December 16 - The Office of Defense Mobilization is established in the United States.
December 24-December 25 - Scottish nationalists take the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
December 28 - The Peak District becomes Britain's first National Park.

Undated

Ralph Schneider founds the Diners Club; it initially only works in 27 restaurants in New York City.
The United Nations building is finished.
The first pagers are developed.
The first TV remote control, Zenith Radio's Lazy Bones, is marketed.
Myxomatosis is introduced into Australia in an attempt to control the escalating rabbit population.
IBM Israel begins operating in Tel Aviv.
President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam to aid French forces.
France institutes a government-guaranteed minimum wage.

Ongoing

Computer Age, and Cold War
First Indochina War

World population

Total world population: 2,518,629,000
- Africa: 221,214,000
- Asia: 1,398,488,000
- Europe: 547,403,000
- Latin-America: 167,097,000
- Northern America: 171,616,000
- Oceania: 12,812,000.

Births

**1950 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1950 MCML
Ab urbe condita	2703
Armenian calendar	1399 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar	106 – 107
Berber calendar	2900
Buddhist calendar	2494
Burmese calendar	1312
Byzantine calendar	7458 – 7459
Chinese calendar	己丑年十一月十三日 (4586/4646-11-13) — to — 庚寅年十一月廿三日 (4587/4647-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1666 – 1667
Ethiopian calendar	1942 – 1943
Hebrew calendar	5710 – 5711
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2005 – 2006
- Shaka Samvat	1872 – 1873
- Kali Yuga	5051 – 5052
Holocene calendar	11950
Iranian calendar	1328 – 1329
Islamic calendar	1369 – 1370
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 25 (昭和25年)
Korean calendar	4283
Thai solar calendar	2493

January–February

January 5 - John Manley, Canadian politician
January 5 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur and inventor
January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee, African-American politician
January 12 - Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
January 16 - Debbie Allen, African-American actress, dancer, and choreographer
January 17 - Cristina Galbó, Spanish actress
January 17 - Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
January 20 - Edward Hirsch, American poet
January 21 - Billy Ocean, West Indian-born musician
January 23 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
January 24 - Gennifer Flowers, American actress, connected to US President Bill Clinton
January 24 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American author and scholar
January 26 - Janet Lupo, American model
January 27 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist
January 27 - Derek Acorah, British spiritualist medium
January 29 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
January 30 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
February 1 - Kazimierz Nycz, Polish clergyman
February 3 - Morgan Fairchild, American actress
February 4 - Pamela Franklin, British actress
February 6 - Natalie Cole, African-American singer
February 10 - Mark Spitz, American Olympic swimmer
February 12 - Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
February 12 - Steve Hackett, British songwriter and guitarist
February 13 - Peter Gabriel, British rock musician
February 15 - Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director
February 16 - Peter Hain, British politician
February 18 - Cybill Shepherd, American actress, singer and former fashion model (The Last Picture Show)
February 18 - John Hughes, American film director, producer, and writer
February 19 - Andy Powell, British rock musician (Wishbone Ash)
February 20 - Ken Shimura, Japanese television performer and actor
February 20 - Tony Wilson, English impresario (d. 2007)
February 22 - Julius Erving, African-American basketball player
February 22 - Julie Walters, English actress
February 22 - Miou-Miou, French actress
February 22 - Ellen Greene, American actress
February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish film director, writer, and producer
February 25 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
February 26 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
February 26 - Bill Ritter, American news anchor

March–April

March 2 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (d. 1983)
March 4 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
March 9 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (d. 2004)
March 9 - Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
March 11 - Bobby McFerrin, African-American singer
March 11 - Jerry Zucker, American film producer, director, and writer
March 13 - William H. Macy, American actor
March 18 - Brad Dourif, American actor
March 18 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
March 20 - William Hurt, American actor
March 22 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass, African-American singer
March 26 - Martin Short, Canadian-born comedian
March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, British actor and comedian
April 3 - Sally Thomsett, British actress
April 4 - Christine Lahti, American actress
April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish rock singer and songwriter (ABBA)
April 5 - Harpo, Swedish pop musician
April 10 - Ken Griffey, Sr., African-American baseball player
April 12 - David Cassidy, American actor and singer
April 12 - Kari Palaste, Finnish architect
April 20 - Steve Erickson, American novelist
April 22 - Peter Frampton, English rock musician
April 25 - Lenora Branch Fulani, African-American presidential candidate
April 28 - Jay Leno, American comedian and talk show host
April 29 - Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster

May–June

May 7 - Tim Russert, American journalist (d. 2008)
May 13 - Stevie Wonder, African-American musician
May 31 - Gregory Harrison, American actor and director
June 5 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (d. 1977)
June 25 - Nitza Saul, Israeli actress

July–August

July 5 - Michael Monarch, American rock musician (Steppenwolf)
July 5 - Huey Lewis, American rock musician
July 11 - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani Nuclear physicist and social activist
July 11 - J. R. Morgan, British classical scholar
July 18 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
July 18 - Glenn Hughes, American vocalist (d. 2001)
July 19 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
July 19 - Simon Cadell, British actor
July 26 - Susan George, British actress
August 1 - Roy Williams, American basketball coach
August 1 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
August 1 - Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler
August 7 - Alan Keyes, African-American conservative political activist
August 8 - Ken Kutaragi, ex-C.E.O of Sony Computer Entertainment
August 11 - Erik Brann, American musician, guitarist (d. 2003)
August 11 - Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapon designer
August 15 - Anne, Princess Royal
August 15 - Neil J. Gunther Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
August 16 - Hasely Crawford, West Indian athlete
August 16 - Marshall Manesh, Persian actor
August 26 - Carl Deuker, American author
August 27 - Charles Fleischer, American actor

September–October

September 1 - Dr. Phil McGraw, American TV psychologist
September 1 - Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, current Prime Minister of Russia
September 2 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
September 7 - Julie Kavner, American actress
September 10 - Joe Perry (musician), American rock guitarist (Aerosmith)
September 14 - Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
September 14 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
September 16 - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter and chef
September 17 - Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat
September 21 - Charles Clarke, British politician
September 21 - Bill Murray, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
September 22 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
September 24 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
September 27 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
September 28 - John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
October 1 - Randy Quaid, American actor
October 5 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
October 5 - Edward P. Jones, American writer
October 9 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10 - Nora Roberts, American novelist
October 12 - Edward Bloor, American novelist
October 12 - Caroline Ellis, British actress
October 12 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
October 17 - Howard Rollins, African-American actor (d. 1996)
October 18 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
October 20 - Tom Petty, American rock singer
October 22 - Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado
October 28 - Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
October 29 - Abdullah Gül, Turkish 11th president
October 31 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor

(d. 1994)

October 31 - Jane Pauley, American television broadcaster and journalist (Today)

November–December

November 1 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 3 - Joe Queenan, American humorist and social critic
November 3 - Massimo Mongai, Italian author
November 4 - Charles Frazier, American author
November 10 - Debra Hill, American producer (d. 2005)
November 10 - Bob Orton, Jr., American professional wrestler
November 13 - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer
November 21 - Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
November 22 - Lyman Bostock, African-American baseball player (d. 1978)
November 28 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 28 - Ed Harris, American actor
December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and musician
December 2 - Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
December 2 - Benjamin Stora, French historian
December 5 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer (d. 1992)
December 10 - Tom Towles, American actor
December 13 - Wendie Malick, American actress
December 16 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
December 17 - Laurence F. Johnson, American futurist and educator
December 17 - Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
December 18 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
December 19 - Manny Trillo, Venezuelan-born American baseball player
December 23 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
December 28 - Alex Chilton, American rock musician (The Box Tops)

Deaths

January–June

January 17 - Seiichi Hatano, Japanese philosopher (b. 1877)
January 21 - George Orwell, English author (1984) (b. 1903)
February 6 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
February 7 - D. K. Broster, British historical novelist (b. 1877)
February 25 - George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1885)
March 5 - Sid Grauman, American restaurateur (b. 1895)
March 19 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
March 24 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
March 30 - Joe Yule, Scottish-born comedian (b. 1894)
April 26 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
May 1 - Lothrop Stoddard, American eugenicist (b. 1883)
May 9 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
May 10 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist (b. 1883)
June 4 - Kazys Grinius, President of Lithuania (b. 1866)
June 24 - Darwan Singh Negi, Indian VC recipient (b. 1881)

July–December

July 12 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
July 17 - Evangeline Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
August 22 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
August 23 - Frank Phillips, American oil executive (b. 1873)
August 26 - Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer (b. 1864)
August 27 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (b. 1908)
September 6 - Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (b. 1886)
September 10 - Raymond Sommer, American race car driver (b. 1906)
September 11 - Rudolph Palm, Curacao born composer (b. 1880)
September 11 - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1870)
September 21 - Arthur Milne, British physicist (b. 1896)

October 13 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
October 19 - Charles Ballantyne, Canadian politician (b. 1867)
October 23 - Al Jolson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
October 29 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
November 3 - Koiso Kuniaki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
November 25 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
November 28 - James Corbitt, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1913)
November 30 - Werner Haase, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1900)
December 2 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
December 5 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
December 11 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
December 12 - Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1884)
December 15 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader (b. 1875)
December 27 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)

Nobel Prizes

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Year by Year 1950" -- History Channel International
^ Joseph Pelletier "The Sun Danced at Fatima", Doubleday, New York (1983), pp150,151