| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Grover Cleveland Alexander |
Baseball |
26-Feb-1887 |
4-Nov-1950 |
Pitcher, 373 career wins |
| Henry Justin Allen |
Politician |
11-Sep-1868 |
17-Jan-1950 |
Governor of Kansas, 1919-23 |
| Sara Allgood |
Actor |
31-Oct-1879 |
13-Sep-1950 |
How Green Was My Valley |
| Hap Arnold |
Military |
25-Jun-1886 |
15-Jan-1950 |
Commander, US Army Air Corps, WWII |
| Carter T. Barron |
Business |
30-Jan-1905 |
16-Nov-1950 |
Washington advocate for the arts |
| William Rose Benét |
Poet |
2-Feb-1886 |
4-May-1950 |
The Dust Which Is God |
| Léon Blum |
Head of State |
9-Apr-1872 |
30-Mar-1950 |
Thrice Prime Minister of France |
| Rudolph Boysen |
Botanist |
14-Jul-1895 |
25-Nov-1950 |
Created the boysenberry |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Novelist |
1-Sep-1875 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Tarzan |
| Hattie Wyatt Caraway |
Politician |
1-Feb-1878 |
21-Dec-1950 |
First female elected to US Senate |
| Willis Carrier |
Inventor |
26-Nov-1876 |
7-Oct-1950 |
Created the first air conditioning |
| Hobart Cavanaugh |
Actor |
22-Sep-1886 |
27-Apr-1950 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Walter E. Clark |
Politician |
7-Jan-1869 |
4-Feb-1950 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1909-13 |
| Bainbridge Colby |
Government |
22-Dec-1869 |
11-Apr-1950 |
US Secretary of State, 1920-21 |
| Pedro de Cordoba |
Actor |
28-Sep-1881 |
16-Sep-1950 |
The Ghost Breakers |
| Kiki Cuyler |
Baseball |
30-Aug-1898 |
11-Feb-1950 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
| Walter Damrosch |
Conductor |
30-Jan-1862 |
22-Dec-1950 |
Conductor, popularizer of music |
| Harry L. Davis |
Politician |
25-Jan-1878 |
21-May-1950 |
Governor of Ohio, 1921-23 |
| Buddy DeSylva |
Songwriter |
27-Jan-1895 |
11-Jul-1950 |
DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson |
| Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
| Peter Fraser |
Head of State |
28-Aug-1884 |
5-Aug-1950 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49 |
| James Rudolph Garfield |
Politician |
17-Oct-1865 |
24-Mar-1950 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1907-09 |
| Gustav V |
Royalty |
16-Jun-1858 |
29-Oct-1950 |
King of Sweden, 1907-50 |
| Alan Hale, Sr. |
Actor |
10-Feb-1892 |
22-Jan-1950 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| Norman Haworth |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1883 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Carbohydrates and vitamin C |
| Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |
Government |
30-Nov-1889 |
21-Jan-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1929-30 |
| Walter Huston |
Actor |
6-Apr-1884 |
7-Apr-1950 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| Rex Ingram |
Film Director |
15-Jan-1892 |
21-Jul-1950 |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| Emil Jannings |
Actor |
23-Jul-1884 |
3-Jan-1950 |
The Last Command |
| Karl Jansky |
Astronomer |
22-Oct-1905 |
14-Feb-1950 |
Radio waves from outer space |
| Johannes V. Jensen |
Author |
20-Jan-1873 |
25-Nov-1950 |
The Long Journey |
| Al Jolson |
Singer |
26-May-1886 |
23-Oct-1950 |
The Jazz Singer |
| Edward J. Kelly |
Politician |
1-May-1876 |
20-Oct-1950 |
Mayor of Chicago, 1933-47 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King |
Head of State |
17-Dec-1874 |
22-Jul-1950 |
Three-time Prime Minister of Canada |
| Gustav Krupp |
Business |
7-Aug-1870 |
16-Jan-1950 |
Industrialist, Nazi war criminal |
| Harold Laski |
Economist |
30-Jun-1893 |
24-Mar-1950 |
A Grammar of Politics |
| Harry Lauder |
Singer |
4-Aug-1870 |
26-Feb-1950 |
Roamin' in the Gloamin' |
| William Lemke |
Politician |
13-Aug-1878 |
30-May-1950 |
Congressman from North Dakota, 1933-50 |
| Edgar Lee Masters |
Poet |
23-Aug-1869 |
5-Mar-1950 |
Spoon River Anthology |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Marcel Mauss |
Sociologist |
10-May-1872 |
10-Feb-1950 |
The Gift |
| Adolf Meyer |
Psychiatrist |
13-Sep-1866 |
17-Mar-1950 |
Commonsense Psychiatry |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Poet |
22-Feb-1892 |
19-Oct-1950 |
Renascence |
| E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| Fats Navarro |
Jazz Musician |
24-Sep-1923 |
7-Jul-1950 |
Be-bop jazz trumpeter |
| Ransom E. Olds |
Business |
3-Jun-1864 |
26-Aug-1950 |
Founder of Nucor and Oldsmobile |
| George Orwell |
Author |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
1984 and Animal Farm |
| Cesare Pavese |
Poet |
9-Sep-1908 |
27-Aug-1950 |
La luna e i falò |
| Ernest Poole |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1880 |
10-Jan-1950 |
His Family |
| John J. Raskob |
Business |
12-Mar-1879 |
14-Oct-1950 |
Built the Empire State Building |
| Karl Renner |
Head of State |
14-Dec-1870 |
31-Dec-1950 |
President of Austria, 1945-50 |
| Charles G. Ross |
Government |
9-Nov-1885 |
5-Dec-1950 |
White House Press Secretary for Truman |
| Eliel Saarinen |
Architect |
20-Aug-1873 |
1-Jul-1950 |
Finnish-American art nouveau architect |
| Everett Sanders |
Politician |
8-Mar-1882 |
12-May-1950 |
Congressman from Indiana, 1917-25 |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Playwright |
26-Jul-1856 |
2-Nov-1950 |
Irish dramatist and pamphleteer |
| Jan Smuts |
Politician |
24-May-1870 |
11-Sep-1950 |
South African Prime Minister |
| Laurence A. Steinhardt |
Diplomat |
6-Oct-1892 |
28-Mar-1950 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1939-41 |
| Henry L. Stimson |
Government |
21-Sep-1867 |
20-Oct-1950 |
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 |
| Guilhermina Suggia |
Cellist |
27-Jun-1885 |
30-Jul-1950 |
Cellist |
| Howard Sutherland |
Politician |
8-Sep-1865 |
12-Mar-1950 |
US Senator from West Virginia, 1917-23 |
| Thomas D. Thacher |
Attorney |
10-Sep-1881 |
12-Nov-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1930-33 |
| Zeffie Tilbury |
Actor |
20-Nov-1863 |
24-Jul-1950 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| Griselio Torresola |
Assassin |
1925 |
1-Nov-1950 |
Attempted assassin of Truman |
| Carl Van Doren |
Author |
10-Sep-1885 |
18-Jul-1950 |
The American Novel |
| Archibald Wavell |
Military |
5-May-1883 |
24-May-1950 |
British Field Marshal in WWII |
| Kurt Weill |
Composer |
2-Mar-1900 |
3-Apr-1950 |
The Threepenny Opera |
