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Months in Year 1950: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 144 of 144

Jan 2nd - Emil Jannings, actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65
Jan 2nd - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
Jan 6th - Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71
Jan 8th - George Rowe, cricketer (15 wckts in 4 Tests for S Af 1895-1902), dies
Jan 8th - Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
Jan 8th - Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies
Jan 11th - Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77
Jan 12th - Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at 44
Jan 15th - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
Jan 21st - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
Jan 22nd - Alan Hale, actor (Little John-Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 57
Jan 22nd - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
Jan 24th - Bull Montana, actor (Son of Sheik), dies at 62
Jan 26th - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at 78
Jan 28th - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
Jan 29th - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
Feb 2nd - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
Feb 3rd - Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80
Feb 6th - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
Writer George Orwell (Jan 21st) Feb 10th - Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70
Feb 10th - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
Feb 13th - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
Feb 14th - Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80
Feb 14th - Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44
Feb 16th - David Denton, cricketer (England batsman in 11 Tests 1905-10), dies
Feb 18th - Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56
Feb 19th - Edyth Walker, US singer, dies at 82
Feb 25th - George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
Feb 26th - Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75
Feb 27th - Ivan Goll, writer, dies at 58
Mar 2nd - M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
Mar 4th - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
Mar 6th - Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
Mar 6th - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
Mar 8th - Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
Mar 10th - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
Mar 11th - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
Mar 12th - L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
Mar 19th - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
Mar 20th - Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
Mar 23rd - Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
Mar 24th - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
Mar 28th - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
Mar 30th - Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77
Apr 1st - Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
Apr 3rd - Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 70
Apr 3rd - Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74
Apr 3rd - Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
Apr 7th - Walter Huston, dies at 66
Apr 8th - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63
Apr 8th - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London
Apr 14th - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
Apr 19th - Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66
Apr 22nd - Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
Apr 26th - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
Apr 27th - Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70
Apr 27th - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies
May 6th - Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
May 8th - Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
May 8th - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
May 9th - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
May 10th - John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
May 10th - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
May 17th - Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
May 24th - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
May 26th - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
Jun 2nd - Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70
Jun 4th - Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies
Jun 17th - Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
Jun 20th - Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
Jun 22nd - Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65
Jun 27th - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
Jun 28th - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72
Jul 1st - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
Jul 1st - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
Jul 1st - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
Jul 5th - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
Jul 5th - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
Jul 6th - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
Jul 8th - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
Jul 11th - Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79
Jul 12th - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
Jul 17th - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
Jul 18th - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
Jul 21st - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
Jul 29th - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
Aug 5th - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73
Aug 8th - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
Aug 8th - Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69
Aug 8th - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
Aug 18th - Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
Aug 19th - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
Aug 22nd - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
Aug 24th - Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63
Aug 25th - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
Aug 27th - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
Sep 6th - Arthur Hill, cricketer (3 Tests), dies
Sep 6th - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
Sep 11th - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
Sep 11th - S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
Sep 13th - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
Sep 15th - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
Sep 16th - Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68
Sep 23rd - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
Sep 29th - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
Oct 5th - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
Oct 9th - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
Oct 13th - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
Oct 19th - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
Oct 20th - Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies
Oct 23rd - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
Oct 29th - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
Oct 31st - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72
Oct 31st - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (Nov 2nd) Nov 2nd - George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
Nov 4th - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
Nov 5th - Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
Nov 16th - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
Nov 18th - Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
Nov 19th - Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57
Nov 20th - Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84
Nov 25th - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
Nov 25th - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
Nov 26th - Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
Dec 1st - Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
Dec 2nd - Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
Dec 5th - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
Dec 11th - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
Dec 13th - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
Dec 14th - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
Dec 15th - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
Dec 15th - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
Dec 16th - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
Dec 22nd - Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70
Dec 22nd - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88
Dec 23rd - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72
Dec 25th - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
Dec 25th - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
Dec 26th - Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47
Dec 26th - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68
Dec 27th - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
Dec 31st - Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83
Dec 31st - Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80

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