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In the year 1950

1,597 Notable birthdays

Germán Efromovich

Bolivian entrepreneur in aviation and oil business.

Born March 28th, 1950 (age 76 years) in La Paz.

Anthony Grafton

American historian of early modern europe.

Born May 21st, 1950 (age 75 years) in New Haven.

Mathieu Carrière

German actor.

Born August 2nd, 1950 (age 75 years) in Hanover. [ref]

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator (1950-2006).

Born March 6th, 1950 in Nagoya. [ref]

Died August 6th, 2006 at 56 years old in Suginami (lung cancer). [ref]

Amos Gitai

Israeli film director and screenwriter (born 1950).

Born October 11th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Haifa.

Ratko Svilar

Serbian footballer.

Born May 6th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Crvenka.

Naoki Tatsuta

Japanese voice actor.

Born September 8th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Iwade.

Dino Meneghin

Italian basketball player.

Born January 18th, 1950 (age 76 years) in Alano di Piave.

Tim D. White

American paleoanthropologist.

Born August 24th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Los Angeles.

Alan Duff

New zealand writer.

Born October 26th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Rotorua.

Yuri Shchekochikhin

Russian journalist (1950-2003).

Born June 9th, 1950 in Ganja.

Died July 3rd, 2003 at 53 years old in Moscow (poison).

Adolfo Domínguez

Spanish fashion designer.

Born May 14th, 1950 (age 75 years) in A Pobra de Trives.

László Babai

Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist.

Born July 20th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Budapest.

Erri De Luca

Italian novelist, poet and translator.

Born May 20th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Naples.

Péter Esterházy

Hungarian writer (1950–2016).

Born April 14th, 1950 in Budapest.

Died July 14th, 2016 at 66 years old in Budapest (pancreatic cancer). [ref]

Hossein Hamadani

Iranian terrorist (1950–2015).

Born December 20th, 1950 in Hamadan.

Died October 7th, 2015 at 64 years old in Aleppo. [ref]

Juice Leskinen

Finnish musician (1950–2006).

Born February 19th, 1950 in Juankoski. [ref]

Died November 24th, 2006 at 56 years old in Tampere (diabetes, liver cirrhosis, kidney failure). [ref]

Ahmet Altan

Turkish journalist (born 1950).

Born March 2nd, 1950 (age 76 years) in Ankara.

J. Arch Getty

American historian.

Born November 30th, 1950 in Louisiana.

Died May 19th, 2025 at 74 years old [ref]

Anémone

French actress (1950–2019).

Born August 9th, 1950 in 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Died April 30th, 2019 at 68 years old in Poitiers (lung cancer). [ref]

Bibo Bergeron

French film director.

Born September 10th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Paris.

Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky

Pretender to the georgian throne (1950–2025).

Born August 25th, 1950 in Tbilisi.

Died March 1st, 2025 at 74 years old in Tbilisi. [ref]

Ioan P. Culianu

Romanian academic (1950-1991).

Born January 5th, 1950 in Iași.

Died May 21st, 1991 at 41 years old in Chicago.

Victor Ivanov

Russian politician and businessman.

Born May 12th, 1950 (age 75 years) in Veliky Novgorod.

Lenny Kuhr

Dutch singer-songwriter.

Born February 22nd, 1950 (age 76 years) in Eindhoven.

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