List of Famous people who died in 1950

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer and publicist.

Lina Franziska Fehrmann was an artist model generally called Fränzi and associated with Die Brücke. Her role in their work has occasionally been deemed unsettling.

With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937), Howard Hawks' South American set Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year His Girl Friday, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexander Hall's turn of the century fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Charles Vidor's lush Chopin biopic, A Song to Remember in 1945.

André Léon Blum was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister.

Santiago Casares y Quiroga was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936.

Louis Magnus was an ice skater. He competed as a figure skater representing France. He is considered as the builder of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

Pierre Chareau was a French architect and designer.

Hantaro Nagaoka was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period.

Kristian Kristiansen Laake was a Norwegian military officer. He is best known for having commanded the Norwegian Army in the first days after the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, and for having been replaced because of what was seen by the leading Norwegian politicians as passive leadership.

Vaslav Nijinsky was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. Born in Kiev to Polish parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia but considered himself to be Polish. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time, and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps.