List of Famous people who died in 1950

Alan Hale Sr. was an American film actor and director, best remembered for his many character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan. Hale's career in film lasted 40 years.

Marguerite De La Motte was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.

Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.

William Christy Cabanne was an American film director, screenwriter, and silent film actor.

Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist

Robert Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".

Oscar Paul Osthoff was an American athlete and coach. Osthoff won the gold medal in the all-around dumbbell event and the silver medal in the two hand lift competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he lettered in four sports: football, track and field, gymnastics, and swimming. Osthoff served as the head football coach at Washington State College—now Washington State University—from 1910 to 1911, compiling a record of 5–6.

Bernhoff Otelius Hansen was a Norwegian wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for the United States.

Osborn Joseph Bergin was a scholar of the Irish language and early Irish literature, who discovered Bergin's Law.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist.