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This article provides a list of famous people who died in 1950 .
- See also: Category: Deaths in 1950
January
- January 2 - Emil Jannings (65) - German actor , producer , first Oscar winner for best actor.
- January 7 - Yuri Tarasov (26) - Soviet athlete.
- January 8 - Joseph Schumpeter (66) - Austrian and American economist, sociologist and historian of economic thought.
- January 9 - Pavel Danilov (55) - Red Army Worker and Peasant Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- January 14 - Justin Dzhanelidze (66) - an outstanding Soviet surgeon, scientist and public figure, Hero of Socialist Labor.
- January 16 - Alexander Zeyberlin - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- January 16 - Gustav Krupp (79) - a German industrialist and financial tycoon who provided significant material support to the Nazi movement in Germany.
- January 16 - Sergey Mukhortov (26) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- January 17 - Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky (75) - Russian public figure and politician, member of the State Duma from the Bessarabian province.
- January 19 - Lavrenty Chernigovsky - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, archimandrite.
- January 21 - Yehuda Gur (87) - Israeli linguist, lexicographer, writer, translator, teacher. One of the first Hebrew writers in Eretz Yisrael.
- January 21 - George Orwell (46) - British writer and publicist ; tuberculosis.
- January 22 - Corinne Luscher (28) - French actress.
- January 23 - Alexander Utin (43) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- January 28 - Joseph Schneerson (69) - 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.
February
- February 3 - Karl Seitz (80) - Federal President of Austria (1919-1920)
- February 3 - Arseny Malen (28) - major of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- February 4 - Jan Bulgak (73) - Polish photographer and photo artist, father of Polish photography. "
- February 8 - Alexander Chaks (48) - Latvian writer and poet.
- February 9 - Vasily Kvachantiradze (43) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- February 10 - Armen Tigranyan (70) - Armenian composer.
- February 11 - Eugene Zelensky (72) - Russian and Soviet architect.
- February 12 - Boris Vladimirsky (71) - Soviet artist and graphic artist.
- February 13 - Nikolai Krause (62) - Russian surgeon, clinician, teacher, doctor of medical sciences.
- February 13 - Rafael Sabatini (74) - an English writer famous for adventure historical novels, in particular, novels about Captain Blood .
- February 21 - Mikhail Skorulsky (62) - composer, teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1947).
- February 23 - Alexander Bugaev (40) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- February 28 - Nikolai Luzin (66) - Russian Soviet mathematician, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( 1929 ), professor at Moscow University ( 1917 ).
March
- March 2 - Alberto Gerchunoff (67) - Argentinean writer.
- March 2 - George Stark (71) - Russian Rear Admiral.
- March 5 - Edgar Lee Masters (81) - American writer .
- March 5 - Roman Shukhevych (42) - head of the OUN (b) in the territories of Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland since May 1943 ; killed.
- March 6 - Vladimir Vetchinkin (61) - Soviet scientist in the field of aerodynamics, aeronautics and wind energy.
- March 6 - Albert Lebrun (78) - French politician, last president of France during the Third Republic ( 1932 - 1940 ).
- March 12 - Heinrich Mann (78) - German prosaic writer and public figure, Thomas Mann's older brother.
- March 14 - Porfiry Chanchibadze (48) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General.
- March 15 - Alexander Kobisskaya (29) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- March 16 - Grigory Maximov (56) - anarchist, revolutionary, emigrant, the last major anarchist theorist in Russia.
- March 17 - Gdalia Alon - Israeli historian. Researcher of the Talmud and the history of the era of the Second Temple.
- March 17 - Ivan Ivashchenko (44) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- March 17 - Wolf Korsunsky (26) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- March 19 - Edgar Burroughs (74) - American writer who had a significant influence on the development of the genres of science fiction and fantasy .
- March 19 - Mikhail Tskhakaya (84) - Georgian revolutionary, Soviet state and party leader, member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
- March 22 - Olga Varentsova (87) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Ivanovo-Ascension Provincial Committee of the RCP (b) (1920-1921).
- March 28 - Antanas Matsiauskas (76) - Lithuanian public figure, publicist, translator, publisher.
- March 30 - Leon Blum (77) - French politician, first socialist and first Jew at the head of the French government (prime minister (1936-1937), (1938); chairman of the Provisional Government of France (1946-1947).
April
- April 1 - Pyotr Arefyev (36) - aviation major, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- April 2 - Grigory Gukovsky (47) - Soviet literary critic, philologist, critic, a major expert on Russian literature of the 18th century; died of a heart attack in the Moscow Lefortovo prison.
- April 4 - Sergey Muraveisky (55) - hydrologist, hydrobiologist, founder of biohydrology.
- April 4 - Andrey Chernikov - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- April 6 - Pyotr Klyuyev (27) - aviation captain, Hero of the Soviet Union; plane crash.
- April 6 - Karl Schroeder (65) - German communist politician and writer.
- April 7 - Vasily Egorov (51) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Chechen-Ingush regional committee of the CPSU (B.) (1936-1937).
- April 8 or 11 - Vaclav Nizhinsky (61) - a Russian dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, born in Ukraine , one of the leading participants in the Diaghilev Russian Ballet .
- April 10 - Pavel Shubin (36) - Russian Soviet poet, journalist, translator.
- April 11 - Nikolai Aduev (54) - Russian Soviet poet, playwright, librettist.
- April 13 - Semyon Chernetsky (68) - military conductor, composer, organizer and leader of the first Soviet military bands.
- April 17 - Alexander Ershov (26) - captain of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War.
- April 18 - Sergey Khudyakov (48) - Air Marshal; shot.
- April 19 - Mikhail Bogdanov (52) - Soviet military leader, brigade commander of the Red Army.
- April 19 - Victor Nasedkin - State Security Lieutenant General.
- April 19 - Andrey Naumov (58) - Soviet military leader, major general.
- April 20 - George Andreichin - Bulgarian, American and Soviet politician.
- April 20 - Mikhail Kossa (28) - aviation major, Hero of the Soviet Union; shot.
- April 23 - Richard Lake (89) - Canadian politician.
May
- May 1 - Mamed Ordubadi (78) - Azerbaijani Soviet writer.
- May 3 - Semyon Abugov (72) - Soviet painter, graphic artist and teacher.
- May 5 - Ignatius Petukhov (35) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 6 - Agnes Smedley (58) - American journalist, writer, advocate for women's rights and the liberation of India.
- May 6 - Henrietta Sorokina - sister of mercy, heroine of the First World War.
- May 10 - Dmitry Odinets (67) - Russian scientist, historian, public and political figure of the Russian foreign countries.
- May 12 - Mikhail Chepanov - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 16 - Isaac Zvavich (45) - Soviet historian-English historian, specialist in the history of Great Britain.
- May 18 - David Bertier (67) - Soviet violinist, conductor, teacher.
- May 19 - Peppino Garibaldi (70) - Italian revolutionary and brigadier general, grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
- May 19 - Ivan Kratt (50) - Russian Soviet writer.
- May 25 - Marcus Glaser (70) - Catholic Bishop.
- May 29 - Tinus van Burden (57) - Dutch footballer (also known as Harry van Burden ).
- May 30 - Daniil Barchenkov (32) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 30 - Alexander Boychenko (46) - Ukrainian writer and public figure.
June
- June 1 - Beilinson, Yakov Lvovich - Director General of the Navy, covaler of two orders of Lenin.
- June 4 - Kazis Grinyus (83) - Lithuanian politician.
- June 6 - Dmitry Timofeev (43) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- June 15 - Eugene Egorov (59) - Soviet military leader, major general.
- June 17 - Vasily Kiselev (34) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- June 18 - Alexey Korelyakov (24) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- June 24 - Ivan Shmelev (76) - Russian writer .
- June 26 - Antonina Nezhdanova (77) - Russian Soviet opera singer.
- June 29 - Melitta Benz (77) - inventor of the paper filter for coffee.
July
- July 3 - Stepan Garanin (51) - Head of the North-East Forced Labor Camp.
- July 4 - Alexey Elizarov (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 11 - Alexander Kazakov (33) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 11 - Anton Loskin - locomotive engineer; the first in Mordovia Hero of Socialist Labor.
- July 12 - Lev Galler (67) - Soviet naval leader, admiral.
- July 12 - Fritz Zuren (42) - Nazi war criminal, SS Hauptsturmfuhrer, commandant of the concentration camp Ravensbrück.
- July 15 - Arnold Margulyan (71) - Soviet opera conductor.
- July 19 - Israel Daniushevsky (59) - Soviet teacher.
- July 19 - Nikolai Tregubov (30) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 20 - Robert Hitchens (85) - English writer and journalist, author of the novel "Green Carnation" ( 1894 ), which was a scandalous success.
- July 22 - Wilm King (75) - tenth Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 26 - Hans Lodeisen (26) - Dutch poet; leukemia .
August
- August 3 - Ivan Petrenko - one of the leaders of the GULAG system.
- August 5 - Rosa Tamarkina (30) - Soviet pianist.
- August 8 - Karl Baikalov (64) - Soviet military leader, participant in the Civil War and military operations in Mongolia.
- August 8 - Nikolai Myaskovsky (69) - Russian Soviet composer, music critic.
- August 8 - Philip Schmitt (47) - Nazi criminal, commandant of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk (Belgium).
- August 9 - Mikhail Viktorov (53) - leader of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD, head of the NKVD Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region, major of state security (1938-1939), died in prison camp.
- August 11 - Vyacheslav Tsvetaev (57) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- August 11 - Movsha Feigin (42) - Latvian and Argentine chess player.
- August 15 - Heydar Huseynov (42) - Azerbaijani Soviet philosopher, public figure, Doctor of Philosophy (1944), professor (1944), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. Laureate of two Stalin Prizes (1948, 1950).
- August 16 - Anthony Sohor (36) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- August 23 - Ivan Naumov - foreman, participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars.
- August 24 - Arturo Alessandri (81) - Chilean statesman and politician, one of the leaders of the liberal party, 18th and 22nd president of Chile .
- August 25 - Pavel Ponedelin (57) - One of the Soviet generals captured by the Germans.
- August 24 - Grigory Kulik (59) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- August 26 - Pavel Artemenko (54) - Soviet military leader.
- August 26 - Mikhail Beleshev (49) - Soviet military leader, major general.
- August 26 - Nikolai Lazutin - Soviet military leader, brigade commander.
- August 27 - Boris Bolshakov (39) - Soviet athlete-cyclist and skater, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
- August 26 - Nikolai Telyakov (48) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- August 28 - Maxim Sivaev (59) - Soviet military leader, major general, participant in the First World, Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. In 1941 he was captured by the Germans, after the war he was shot by a court verdict, posthumously rehabilitated.
- August 28 - Semyon Sidorkov (42) - Junior sergeant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
September
- September 10 - Nikolai Chizhkov (24) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, full holder of the Order of Glory.
- September 11 - Ian Smuts (80) - South African statesman and military leader.
- September 17 - Victor Vesnin (68) - Russian and Soviet architect.
- September 19 - Fedor Simakov (34) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- September 21 - Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya (85) - daughter of Leo Tolstoy , author of memoirs.
- September 22 - Alexander Dinnik (74) - Soviet mechanical scientist.
- September 22 - Semyon Smirnov (26) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- September 23 - Vasily Girusov (51) - Major General of the Soviet Army.
- September 24 - Vasily Nefyodov (29) - lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- September 26 - Dmitry Tretyakov (71) - zoologist-morphologist, doctor of biological sciences, professor, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
- September 29 - Alexander Tairov (65) - Russian and Soviet actor and director, People's Artist of the RSFSR ( 1935 ).
October
- Shot in the “ Leningrad affair ”:
- October 1 - Nikolai Voznesensky (46) - Soviet political and statesman, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( 1943 ), laureate of the Stalin Prize ( 1947 ), economist.
- October 1 - Alexey Kuznetsov (45) - first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee and city party committee in 1945 - 1946 .
- October 1 - Pyotr Lazutin (45) - Soviet party and statesman, chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee in 1946-1949.
- October 1 - Mikhail Rodionov (42) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR .
- October 3 - Panteleimon Sazonov (55) - Soviet director of animated films.
- October 7 - Zalman Leaf - Israeli cartographer — photographer. One of the founders of Israeli cartography and photogrammetry.
- October 9 - Nikolai Hartmann (68) - German philosopher-idealist, founder of critical (or new) ontology.
- October 9 - Stanislav Sheptytsky (83) - Major General of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, Minister of Defense of the Second Polish Republic.
- October 12 - Charles Gmelin (78) - British athlete, bronze medalist of the 1896 Summer Olympics.
- October 12 - Ivan Pavlov (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- October 12 - Dmitry Uznadze (63) - Georgian psychologist and philosopher who developed the general psychological theory of attitude.
- October 14 - Vasily Alekseev - Major General of the Soviet Army.
- October 14 - Victor Vologdin (67) - Soviet scientist and engineer, pioneer of the use of electric welding in shipbuilding.
- October 15 - Gabriel Zashikhin (52) - Colonel-General of Artillery.
- October 18 - Nikolai Khramov (37) - senior instructor pilot, lieutenant colonel.
- October 23 - Al Jolson (64) - American artist, who stood at the origins of popular music in the United States.
- October 26 - Alexander Doroshevich (76) - Russian Soviet theater and film actor.
- October 27 - Alexander Verbitsky (46) - Soviet statesman and military leader, deputy minister of the USSR Navy for political affairs (1948-1949), general director of the Navy of the 1st rank, was shot.
- October 27 - Ivan Kurakin (76) - Yaroslavl provincial leader of the nobility.
- October 28 - Pyotr Bondarenko (49) - Soviet military and party leader, rear admiral.
- October 28 - Mikhail Basov (48) - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR .
- October 28 - Andrei Burilin (44) - Soviet state and party leader, deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Council (1949), executed.
- October 28 - Alexander Voznesensky (52) - a famous Soviet economist , scientist and culture, dean of the Faculty of Economics of the Leningrad State University , Minister of Education of the RSFSR (1948-1949), professor ( 1939 ), brother of Nikolai Voznesensky.
- October 28 - Maria Voznesenskaya (48) - Secretary of the Kuibyshev RK of the CPSU (b) of Leningrad, sister of Alexander and Nikolai Voznesensky.
- October 28 - Ivan Krupennikov (54) - Soviet military leader, major general.
- October 29 - Gustav V (92) - King of Sweden from December 8, 1907 , the eldest son of Oscar II and Sofia Nassauska.
- October 30 - Boris Verlinsky (62) - Soviet chess player, the first official grandmaster in the world.
November
- November 1 - Vasily Frolov (26) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- November 2 - George Bernard Shaw (94) - British ( Irish and English) writer, novelist, playwright, Nobel laureate in literature ( 1925 ).
- November 2 - Kurt German Ludwig Schmitt (64) - German statesman. Reich Minister of Economics and Finance in Hitler’s first office.
- November 3 - Kuniaki Koisho (70) - Japanese politician. Prime Minister of Japan from 1944 to 1945.
- November 9 - Ivan Ivanov (26) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- November 9 - Vladimir Strelkov (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- November 12 - Gregory Lakota - Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.
- November 13 - Ivan Georgiev (48) - Soviet military pilot and military commander.
- November 13 - Antonina Zubkova (30) - Soviet navigator of a dive bomber, guard captain, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- November 13 - Anatoly Olkhon (47) - Russian Soviet poet, translator, children's writer, writer.
- November 13 - Nestor Sokolovsky (48) - Belarusian Soviet composer, choirmaster, folklorist.
- November 18 - Ivan Sereda (31) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- November 20 - Vsevolod Chagovets - Ukrainian theater expert, theater critic and librettist.
- November 27 - Nikolai Fonov (39) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- November 30 - Ivan Korneev (30) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
December
- December 2 - Dinu Lipatti (33) - an outstanding Romanian pianist of the classical repertoire.
- December 3 - Pavel Bazhov (71) - Russian writer , folklorist, who first performed the literary processing of the Ural tales.
- December 5 - Andrey Kostikov (51) - mathematician, specialist in the field of mechanics.
- December 11 - Martins Primanis (72) - chemist and public figure.
- December 12 - Alykul Osmonov (35) - Kyrgyz poet, playwright, translator.
- December 13 - Longin Tsegelsky (75) - Ukrainian statesman and politician, diplomat, journalist.
- December 14 - Alexander Zrazhevsky (64) - Soviet actor, people's artist of the USSR.
- 14 декабря — Игорь Савченко (44) — советский кинорежиссёр, сценарист, педагог.
- 16 декабря — Александр Рыжов (55) — Герой Советского Союза.
- 24 декабря — Лев Берг (74) — русский и советский зоолог и географ.
- 27 декабря — Макс Бекман (66) — немецкий художник.
- 28 декабря — Сигизмунд Кржижановский (63) — русский советский писатель и драматург, философ, историк и теоретик театра.
- 30 декабря — Пантелеимон (Рожновский) (87) — епископ Русской Церкви.
- 31 декабря — Карл Реннер (80) — Федеральный президент Австрии (1945—1950)
See also
- Список умерших в 1949 году
- Список умерших в 1951 году