List of Famous people who died in 1950

Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin, commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars, traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. He once said: "The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. This tower is for the artist like a lighthouse shining out across the world."

Théodore Steeg was a lawyer and professor of philosophy who became Premier of the French Third Republic.

Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor was an Irish peer and politician.

Joseph Peter Grace Sr. was an American businessman, polo player, and owner of Thoroughbred horses in the sport of steeplechase racing.

Kurt Paul Schmitt was a German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister.

Heinrich Tessenow was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era.

Ernst Wilhelm Friedrich Carl Maximilian, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was a German aristocrat and Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He served as the Regent of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha during the minority of his wife’s cousin, Duke Charles Edward, from 1900 to 1905.

Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. (December 26, 1878, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada – January 6, 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, was an American geographer and President of the Johns Hopkins University, 1935–1948.

Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics.