1950

January 2

• Death of Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janez) in Rorschach, Switzerland, age 65; movie actor (Der blaue Engel, The Way of All Flesh). [1] [37]

January 6

• Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at age 71. [1]

January 8

• George Rowe, cricketer (15 wickets in four Tests for South Africa 1895-1902), dies. [1]
• Joseph A Schumpeter, Austrian/American economist/Minister of Finance, dies at age 66. [1]
• Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies. [1]

January 11

• Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at age 77. [1]

January 12

• Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at age 44. [1]

January 16

• Death of Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach near Salzburg, Austria; married the heiress of the Krupp family (steel and arms), Bertha Krupp, and gained control of Krupp Industries. [37]

January 21

• George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair], author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies from tuberculosis in London, England at age 46. [1]

January 22

• Alan Hale Sr, actor (The Seahawk, Yellowstone), dies at age 57. [1]

January 24

• Bull Montana, actor (Son of Sheik), dies at age 62. [1]

January 26

• Betsy van den Arend Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at age 78. [1]

February 1

• Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Dröm), dies at age 56. [1]

February 3

• Karl Seitz, President of Austria, dies at age 80. [1]

February 10

• Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at age 70. [1]

February 14

• Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at age 80. [1]
• Karl G Jansky, Czechoslovakian discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at age 44. [1]

February 16

• David Denton, cricketer (England batsman in 11 Tests 1905-10), dies. [1]

February 18

• Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamaica), dies at age 56. [1]

February 19

• Edyth Walker, American singer, dies at age 82. [1]

February 26

• Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about age 75. [1]

February 27

• Ivan Goll, writer, dies at age 58. [1]

March 2

• M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at age 76. [1]

March 6

• Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at age 54. [1]

March 8

• Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at age 67. [1]

March 11

• Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at age 78. [1]

March 12

• L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at age 78. [1]

March 14

• Rick Dees is born; disc jockey. [5]

March 19

• Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at age 74. [1]

March 20

• Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at age 59. [1]

March 23

• Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies. [1]

March 28

• Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at age 67. [1]

March 30

• Léon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at age 77. [1]

April 1

• Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at age 45. [1]

April 3

• Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at age 70. [1]
• Carter G Woodson "father of black history", dies in Washington DC at age 74. [1]
• Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at age 50. [1]

April 8

• Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at age 63. [1]
• Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London, England. [1]

April 19

• Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at age 66. [1]

April 22

• Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at age 54. [1]

April 27

• Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at age 70. [1]
• Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies. [1]

May 6

• Agnes Smedley, writer, dies. [1]

May 10

• John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies. [1]

May 17

• Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at age 67. [1]

May 26

• Antonina Neshdanova; Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies. [1]

September 13

• Sara Allgood, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at age 56. [1]

December 1

• Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at age 55. [1]

December 2

• Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at age 33. [1]

December 14

• Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at age 65. [1]

December 15

• Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at age 66. [1]

December 16

• Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at age 70. [1]

December 22

• Julius Weismann, composer, dies at age 70. [1]
• Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at age 88. [1]

December 23

• Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at age 72. [1]

December 25

• Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at age 47. [1]

December 26

• Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at age 47. [1]
• James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at age 68. [1]

December 27

• Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at age 66. [1]

December 31

• Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at age 83. [1]
• Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/President (1918-20, 1945-50), dies at age 80. [1]

1951

January 3

• Fred Barlow, composer, dies at age 69. [1]

January 5

• Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at age 51. [1]

January 7

• Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at age 76. [1]

January 10

• Athos Palma, composer, dies at age 59. [1]
• Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel Prize 1930), dies at age 65. [1]

January 15

• "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea, killing 3,000-5,000. [1]

January 18

• Robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at age 41. [1]

January 19

• Constantin Nottara, composer, dies at age 60. [1]
• Wilhelm Schäfer, German writer (Mein Leben), dies at age 82. [1]

January 22

• Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at age 71. [1]

January 29

• James Bridie [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies. [1]

January 30

• Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at age 75. [1] [5]

February 10

• Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at age 71. [1]

February 16

• Henri Velge, first chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at age 65. [1]

February 17

• Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer, dies at age 94. [1]

February 18

• Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at age 85. [1]

February 19

• André[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, French writer (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at age 81. [1]

February 20

• Howard Brockway, composer, dies at age 80. [1]

February 21

• Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at age 63. [1]

March 6

• Ivor Novello, actor/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at age 58. [1]

March 7

• Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated. [1]
• Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at age 58. [1]

March 8

• John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at age 83. [1]

March 11

• Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at age 66. [1]

March 13

• Alfred Hugenberg, German Roman Catholic president-director of Krupp/media magnate, dies. [1]
• James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at age 67. [1]

March 19

• H Zur Mühlen, writer, dies. [1]

March 20

• Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at age 74. [1]
• Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at age 60. [1]

March 22

• J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Matthäus Passion), dies at age 79. [1]

March 25

• Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics), dies at age 63. [1]

March 31

• Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock), dies at age 45. [1]

April 1

• Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at age 51. [1]

April 2

• Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall. [1]

April 3

• Johannes C Kielstra, Dutch economist/Governor (Suriname 1933-44), dies at age 72. [1]

April 6

• Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at age 71. [1]

April 9

• Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies. [1]
• Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at age 89. [1]

April 12

• Harold Vincent Milligan, composer, dies at age 62. [1]

April 16

• Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at age 85. [1]

April 22

• Stanley Ridges, actor (Possessed, Sergeant York, Mr Ace), dies at age 59. [1]

April 25

• Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at age 47. [1]

April 26

• John Alden Carpenter, American composer (Sea Drift), dies at age 75. [1]

April 27

• Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (Seven Tests for South Africa), dies. [1]

April 29

• Jules Verstraete [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at age 67. [1]
• Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at age 62. [1]

May 5

• Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at age 54. [1]

May 12

• Oscar DePriest, American politician (Representative-Democrat-Illinois), dies at age 80. [1]

May 13

• Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at age 65. [1]

May 17

• Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at age 66. [1]

May 26

• Lincoln Ellsworth, Arctic explorer, dies at age 71. [1]

May 27

• Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies. [1]

May 29

• Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at age 66. [1]
• Fanny Brice, Ziegfeld Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at age 59. [1]
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at age 91. [1]
• Robert Kahn, composer, dies at age 85. [1]

May 30

• Hermann Broch, writer, dies at age 64. [1]

July 9

• Harry Heilmann, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit Tigers), dies at age 56. [1]

July 20

• Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King, assassinated in Jerusalem. [1]

July 23

• Henri Philippe Pétain dies. [1]

August 14

• William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills, California, USA. [1] [5]

September 7

• Maria Montez, actress, dies at age 31. [1]

September 24

• Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at age 48. [1]

October 6

• Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, is assassinated. [1]

October 16

• Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, assassinated by Said Akbar. [1]

December 1

• Felix Petyrek, composer, dies at age 59. [1]

December 5

• "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of baseball's black sox scandal, dies. [1]

December 13

• Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at age 73. [1]

December 15

• Eric Drummond, first Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at age 75. [1]

December 19

• Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at age 51. [1]

December 22

• Powell Weaver, composer, dies at age 61. [1]

December 23

• Alfreds Kalnins, composer, dies at age 72. [1]
• Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at age 66. [1]

December 25

• Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb. [1]

December 30

• Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP), dies at age 76. [1]

December 31

• Maxim M Litvinov [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at age 75. [1]
• Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at age 76. [1]

1952

January 4

• Constantly Permeke Flemish, painter (Boerin), dies at age 65. [1]

January 5

• Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo three Tests for England three for India), dies. [1]
• Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at age 64. [1]

January 8

• Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies. [1]
• Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at age 66. [1]

January 11

• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, General (North-Africa/Indo-China), dies at age 61. [1]

January 17

• Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Detroit Tigers), dies at age 74. [1]

January 18

• Comedic actor Curly Howard dies. [5]

January 20

• Arthur Farwell, composer, dies at age 74. [1]

January 22

• Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at age 52. [1]

January 25

• Sveinn Bjørnsson, Danish first President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at age 70. [1]

January 26

• Louis van Deyssel; Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at age 87. [1]

February 2

• Charles De Roche, actor (Ten Commandments), dies at age 72. [1]
• Johann Babtist Thaller, composer, dies at age 79. [1]

February 5

• Reginald Allen, cricketer (uncle of Gubby, Test Australia vs England 1887), dies. [1]

February 6

• King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham at age 56. [1] [129]

February 9

• Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies. [1]

February 13

• Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at age 71. [1]

February 16

• Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel Prize 1920), dies. [1]

February 19

• Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at age 92. [1]
• Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at age 82. [1]

February 27

• Theodorus Pangalos;l Greek General/dictator 1926, dies at age 74. [1]

March 5

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at age 63. [1]

March 21

• A J Pieters, SS-Untersturmführer, executed. [1]
• Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed. [1]

March 23

• Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at age 61. [1]

April 1

• Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at age 76. [1]

April 2

• Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at age 55. [1]

April 5

• Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at age 75. [1]

April 11

• Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at age 76. [1]

April 13

• [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at age 79. [1]

April 21

• Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at age 61. [1]
• [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of plane-manufacturing, dies at age 62. [1]

April 23

• Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies. [1]
• Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at age 60. [1]

April 24

• Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at age 57. [1]
• Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at age 82. [1]

April 26

• Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at age 59. [1]

April 30

• Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies. [1]

May 1

• William Fox [Fried], American film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at age 73. [1]

May 6

• Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at age 60. [1]
• Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at age 81. [1]

May 9

• Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City, New York at age 45. [1]

May 11

• Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at age 87. [1]

May 15

• Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at age 84. [1]
• Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at age 76. [1]

May 16

• Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for England vs South Africa 1892), dies. [1]

May 18

• Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer, dies at age 86. [1]

May 21

• John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at age 39. [1]

May 23

• Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at age 85. [1]

May 26

• Dámaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at age 55. [1]

May 31

• Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies. [1]

July 26

• Eva "Evita" Peron, Argentina's first lady, dies in Buenos Aires at age 33. [1]

August 18

• Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at age 43. [1]

August 30

• Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers), drowns. [1]

November 9

• Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel, dies at age 57. [1]

December 1

• Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at age 92. [1]

December 4

• Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at age 67. [1]

December 14

• Olav Fartein Vålen, Norwegian composer, dies at age 65. [1]

December 19

• Harry Makepeace, cricketer (cricket and soccer international for England), dies. [1]

December 24

• Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at age 58. [1]

December 26

• Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at age 59. [1]

December 27

• Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at age 76. [1]

December 29

• Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at age 54. [1]

December 30

• Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies. [1]