• 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 - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1870)
• September 21 - Arthur Milne, British physicist (b. 1896)

Contents 1 Events of 1950 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 1.14 Ongoing 1.15 World population 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January-June 3.2 July-December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Notes 6 External links

• October 13 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
• October 19 - Charles Ballantyne, Canadian politician (b. 1867)
• October 23 - Al Jolson, American musician (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 hanged for murder by Albert Pierrepoint
• 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)

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Nobel prizes

• Physics - Cecil Frank Powell
• Chemistry - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
• Medicine - Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
• Literature - Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
• Peace - Ralph Bunche

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Notes

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

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External links

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