1950

1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

• January 5 – U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a law asking for the government to study crime in the U.S.
• January 9 – The Israeli government say's that the People's Republic of China is a country
• January 11 – Huk guerrillas attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.
• January 12 – British submarine Truculent crashes into a Swedish oil tanker in River Thames – 64 people died.
• January 13 – Finland is friendly with the People's Republic of China
• January 15 – Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea
• January 17 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts
• January 23 – The Knesset passes an agreement that says Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
• January 24 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs tells about his wartime espionage at Los Alamos to British interrogators – formally charged February 2
• January 28 – Somaliland is put under Italian rule
• January 29 – Lord Balfour disagrees with the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
• January 31 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
• January 31 – Last Kuomintang troops surrender in continental China
• June 5- The Korean War begins
• October 2 – Charles M. Schulz publishes the first Peanuts comic strip.

• January 3 – Victoria Principal, Japanese-American actress
• January 17 – Richard L. Anderson, American sound editor
• February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
• March 20 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• March 27 - Tony Banks, English keyboardist (Genesis)
• April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (ABBA)
• April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress
• April 12 - Larry Kemp, American sound editor
• May 9 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
• May 10 - Emeric-László Kiss, Hungarian Musician
• May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
• May 13 - Danny Kirwan, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
• May 17 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
• May 22 – Bernie Taupin
• June 19 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart)
• June 21 - Joey Kramer, American drummer (Aerosmith)
• July 28 - Tom Cotcher, Scottish actor
• September 10 - Joe Perry, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
• September 28 - John Sayles, American filmmaker
• October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
• October 2 - Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and musician (Genesis)
• October 2 - Lucas Fuego, Slovak politician and doctor
• October 3 - John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
• October 25 - David Kaye, former American rabbi and convicted sex offender
• October 31 – John Candy, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
• December 18 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian director
• December 29 - László-Braun Rátót, Hungarian politician of German ethnicity

• January 21 – George Orwell, English writer (b. 1903)
• April 7 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (b. 1883)
• November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
• December 30 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)
• June 22 – Lonnie Moon

• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Cinderella
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Boulevard

• "A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz" – Georgia Gibbs
• "All My Love (Bolero)" – Patti Page
• "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" – Al Jolson
• "Ballin' The Jack" – Georgia Gibbs
• "Ballin' The Jack" – Danny Kaye
• "Be My Love" – Mario Lanza
• "Bewitched" – Doris Day
• "Black Lace" – Frankie Laine
• "Boo-Hoo" – Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
• "A Bushel And A Peck" – Perry Como & Betty Hutton
• "Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)" – The Ames Brothers
• "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" – Red Foley
• "Cry Of The Wild Goose" – Frankie Laine
• "Daddy's Little Girl" – The Mills Brothers
• "Dear, Dear, Dear" – Frankie Laine
• "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" – Frankie Laine
• "A Dreamer's Holiday" – Buddy Clark & The Girlfriends
• "Enjoy Yourself" – Guy Lombardo (Kenny Gardner& The Lombardo Trio vocals)
• "Goodnight, Irene" – The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
• "Harbor Lights" – Sammy Kaye
• "Here Comes Santa Claus" – Andrews Sisters
• "L'Hymne A L'Amour (Hymn To Love)" – Édith Piaf
• "I Can Dream, Can't I?" – The Andrews Sisters
• "I Love You For That" – Patti Page & Frankie Laine
• "I Wanna Be Loved" – The Andrews Sisters
• "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" – Eileen Barton
• "I'm Moving On" – Hank Snow
• "It Isn't Fair" – Sammy Kaye (Don Cornell vocal)
• "Let's Go West Again" – Al Jolson
• "A Man Gets Awfully Lonesome" – Frankie Laine
• "Mona Lisa" – Nat King Cole
• "Music, Maestro, Please" – Frankie Laine
• "Music! Music! Music!" – Teresa Brewer
• "My Heart Cries For You" – Guy Mitchell
• "Nevertheless" – The Mills Brothers
• "No Other Love" – Jo Stafford
• "The Old Piano Roll Blues" Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters
• "Patricia" – Perry Como
• "Play A Simple Melody" – Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby)
• "Rag Mop" – The Ames Brothers
• "Red Hot Mama" – Georgia Gibbs
• "The Roving Kind" – Guy Mitchell
• "Sentimental Me" – The Ames Brothers
• "Sleepy Ol' River" – Frankie Laine
• "Someday" – The Mills Brothers
• "Someday" – Vaughn Monroe
• "Sometime" – The Mariners
• "Stars & Stripes Forever" – Frankie Laine
• "Swingin' In A Hammock" – Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney & The Lombardo Trio vocals)
• "The Tennessee Waltz" – Patti Page
• "There's No Tomorrow" – Tony Martin
• "The Thing" – Phil Harris
• "The Third Man Theme" – Anton Karas
• "The Third Man Theme" – Guy Lombardo
• "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" – Patti Page

• Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
• The Adventurer – Mika Waltari
• Beetlecreek – William Demby
• Cabbagetown – Hugh Garner
• The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
• The Child Who Never Grew – Pearl S. Buck
• The Disenchanted – Budd Schulberg
• The Door in the Wall – Marguerite de Angeli
• The Town and the City – Jack Kerouac
• Floodtide – Frank Yerby
• Florence Nightingale – Cecil Woodham-Smith
• The Grass Is Singing – Doris Lessing
• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
• Joy Street – Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Jubilee Trail – Gwen Bristow
• Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
• The Liberal Imagination – Lionel Trilling
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
• The Little World of Don Camillo – Giovanni Guareschi
• The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
• Parade's End – Ford Madox Ford
• The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
• Reading and Criticism – Raymond Williams
• Scenes from Provincial Life – William Cooper
• Star Money – Kathleen Winsor
• Summer In The Country – Edith Templeton
• La vida breve (A Brief Life) – Juan Carlos Onetti
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle – A. E. van Vogt
• The Wall – John Hersey