List of Famous people who died in 1950
Luigi Lavitrano
Luigi Lavitrano was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Palermo from 1928 to 1944, and as prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious from 1945 until his death. Lavitrano was elevated to the cardinalate in 1929.
Maurice Wertheim
Maurice Wertheim was an American investment banker, chess player, chess patron, art collector, environmentalist, and philanthropist. Wertheim founded Wertheim & Co. in 1927.
Giuseppe Garibaldi II
Brigadier-General Giuseppe Garibaldi II, better known as Peppino, was an Italian soldier, patriot and revolutionary, grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Kastor Notter
Kastor Notter was a Swiss racing cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1924, 1925 and 1927. He finished in fifth place in the 1926 Paris–Roubaix.
Franz Staeble
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He and his son Alfried would lead the company through two world wars, producing almost everything for the German war machine from U-boats, battleships, howitzers, trains, railway guns, machine guns, cars, tanks, and much more. Krupp produced the Tiger I tank, Big Bertha, the Paris Gun, among other inventions under Gustav. Following the war, plans to prosecute Gustav Krupp as a war criminal at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials were dropped because by then he was bedridden and senile.
Karl Renner
Karl Renner was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria. He is often referred to as the "Father of the Republic" because he led the first government of German-Austria and the First Austrian Republic in 1919 and 1920, and was once again decisive in establishing the present Second Republic after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, becoming its first President after World War II.
Isaac Westergren
Johan Isaac Westergren was a Swedish sprinter. He competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in the 60 m and 100 m events, but failed to reach the finals. He was also Chairperson of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association between November 1922 and November 1924, making him the first person on that position.
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.
Charles Evans Hughes Jr. was the United States Solicitor General from 1929 to 1930.