List of Famous people who died in 1950

George Richards Minot was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.

Antonina Vasilievna Nezhdanova, was a Russian lyric coloratura soprano. An outstanding opera singer, she represented the Russian vocal school at its best.

Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres-Sotomayor best known as the Count of Romanones was a Spanish politician and businessman. He served as Prime Minister three times between 1912 and 1918, president of the Senate, president of the Congress of Deputies, Mayor of Madrid and many times as cabinet minister. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Romanones, who build an extensive political network, exerted a tight control on the political life of the province of Guadalajara during much of the Restoration period. He also was a prolific writer, authoring a number of history essays.

Cornelia Catharina de Lange was a Dutch pediatrician. Cornelia de Lange syndrome is named after her.

Giuseppe Grassi was a 20th-century Italian politician. Member of the Italian Liberal Party, he served as Minister of Justice in Alcide De Gasperi's fourth and fifth cabinets between 1947 and 1950. He signed, as Keeper of the Seals, the Constitution of Italy in 1948.

Julien Lahaut was a Belgian politician and communist. He became leader of the Communist Party of Belgium after the First World War. A dissident during the German occupation of 1940–44, he became a vocal advocate for the abolition of the Belgian monarchy during the post-war "Royal Question". His assassination in August 1950, at the height of the crisis, has often been attributed to Belgian royalists but remains unsolved.

William Emerson Brock was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali, Chader Pahar, Aranyak.