Famous Deaths in October 1950

Oct 7 Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), dies at 73

Oct 9 George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender, dies in a car accident at 55

Oct 13 Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
Oct 19 Edna St Vincent Millay, American poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), dies at 58
Oct 20 Henry L. Stimson, American statesman (46th United States Secretary of State), dies at 83
Oct 23 Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent actor (Mamie, Swanee), dies at 64
Oct 29 Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
Oct 31 Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72
Oct 31 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72