Rulers:
• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953)
Events:
• Columbia Museum of Art opened in Columbia, SC (USA).
Births:
• Armstrong, Gillian (1950)
• Auteuil, Daniel (1950)
• Balasko, Josiane (1950)
• Braga, Sônia (1950)
• Byrne, Gabriel (1950)
• Chase, Duane (1950)
• Duncan, Lindsay (1950)
• Harris, Ed (1950)
• Hammond, Nicholas (1950)
• Hurt, William (1950-2022)
• Murray, Bill (1950)
• Nelligan, Kate (1950)
• Patrizi, Stefano (1950)
• Shepherd, Cybill (1950)
• Walters, Julie (1950)
• Wayborn, Kristina (1950)
• Whiting, Leonard (1950)
• Zucker, Jerry (1950)
Deaths:
• Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
Music:
• Waxman, Franz (1906-1967): Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Art:
• Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976): Bathmat (c.1950s)
• Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): Derrière le miroir (1950)
• Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): Le Cirque bleu (1950)
• De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Composizione metafisica (1950-60)
• De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Via Appia Antica (1945-50)
• Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968): Feuille de vigne femelle (1950)
• Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968): Not a Shoe (1950)
• Magritte, René (1898-1967): L’Art de la Conversation (1950)
• Magritte, René (1898-1967): L’Empire des lumières, II (1950)
• Magritte, René (1898-1967): Les intermittences du coeur (1950)
• Moore, Henry (1898-1986): Reclining Nude (1950)
• Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956): Number 5, 1950 (1950)
Film:
• All About Eve (1950)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)