List of Famous people who died in 1950

Charles Alexander Stevenson MICE MIEE FRSE was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who built twenty-three lighthouses in and around Scotland.

Emil Jannings was a German actor, popular in the 1920s in Hollywood. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. As of 2021, Jannings is the only German ever to have won the category.

Dirk Coster, was a Dutch physicist. He was a Professor of Physics and Meteorology at the University of Groningen.

Marcelle Monthil was a French film actress.

Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.

Bernd Aldor was a German stage and film actor. Aldor was a leading star of German cinema during the 1910s and 1920s. He appeared regularly in the films of Richard Oswald and Lupu Pick, often in detective thrillers. Aldor also notably appeared in the 1917 social enlightenment film Let There Be Light.

Carlos Román Delgado Chalbaud Gómez was a Venezuelan career military officer. He was the President of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950 as leader of a military junta. In 1945, he was one of the high-ranking officers who brought to power the Democratic Action party by a coup d'état. In 1948, as a Minister of Defence, he led another military coup and lingered as the President until his assassination in Caracas.

László Rudas was a Hungarian communist newspaper editor and politician who survived the Great Purge in the Soviet Union to become director of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of Hungary.

Karl Josef Seitz was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party. He served as member of the Imperial Council, President of the National Council and Mayor of Vienna.

Gerhard Kowalewski was a German mathematician and member of the Nazi party who introduced the matrices notation.