Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1950

Joseph Alois Schumpeter fue un destacado economista austro-estadounidense, ministro de Finanzas en Austria (1919-1920) y profesor de la Universidad de Harvard desde 1932 hasta su muerte.

John Clarence Woods fue un sargento del ejército de Estados Unidos de origen irlandés que, con Joseph Malta, llevó a cabo las ejecuciones de Núremberg de diez ex altos dirigentes del Tercer Reich el 16 de octubre de 1946, después de que fueron condenados a la muerte en los juicios de Núremberg. La revista Time lo acredita con 347 ejecuciones a esa fecha durante una carrera de 15 años. De acuerdo con investigaciones recientes, un número de 60 a 70 durante un período de dos años es más creíble.

Traian Vuia, 17 de agosto de 1872 - Bucarest (Rumanía), 3 de septiembre de 1950) fue un inventor rumano que diseñó, construyó y logró hacer volar el primer avión autopropulsado más pesado que el aire. Esta afirmación es discutida, ya que los hermanos Wright habían conseguido realizar su primer vuelo el 17 de diciembre de 1903, tres años antes que Vuia. Sin embargo, los Wright emplearon una catapulta para lograr el despegue.

Beulah George "Georgia" Tann was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud being perpetrated by her closed the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in America, and many of her adoption practices became standard practice.

Lady Angela Selina Bianca Forbes was a British socialite and novelist who was known as a forces sweetheart for organising soldiers' canteens in France during the First World War. She reverted to her maiden name in 1929.

Jesse Binga was a prominent American businessman who founded the first privately owned African-American bank in Chicago. He was a notable pioneer of African American business achievement in the early 20th century. Binga recalled coming to Chicago in the 1890s with $10 in his pocket. By the 1920s he was a bank president and major real estate owner. Unwilling to conform to de facto, private real-estate segregation, white real estate interests sometimes opposed him violently. After his bank failed in the Great Depression, Binga was eventually charged with embezzlement, a controversial prosecution in the African American community. Protests and public petitions helped lead to his early release. He was granted a full pardon in 1941.

Fritz Suhren. Fue un Oficial de la SS nazi, participante activo del Holocausto judío durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950) fue un historiador, publicista y abogado estadounidense, defensor del supremacismo blanco y representante del racismo científico.

Belle da Costa Greene fue la bibliotecaria de J. P. Morgan, tras la muerte de éste dirigió la Pierpont Morgan Library.

Edith Campbell, was a Canadian nurse. She was one of the first Canadian nurses to arrive in England to assist in the establishment of the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, a field hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and serve during the First World War in both England and France, earning a number of medals including the Royal Red Cross, first class, and the Military Medal. She was also twice mentioned in dispatches.