About the day » Tuesday January 10, 1950Calender converter

• Dewaide, Sittard, Limburg, Nederland († 1950)
• Mary Ann Patton († 2000)
• Jasper Levon Todd ****, Horry, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Annie Zwiers († 2013)
• Huigina (Ina) Naaktgeboren, Hoogblokland († 2014)
• Wilhelmus Josephus Goijaerts, Schijndel
• Anna,Amelia de Ruijter, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Jan Johannes Kappenburg, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1996)
• Lydie SCHYNS, Montzen-Plombières, Province de Liège, Belgium († 1993)
• Isaak Willem Neuteboom, Leiden († 1997)

• Aaltje Schimmel (60), Doetinchem
• Anna Katarina Driessen (79), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Alida Hovestad
• Anna Katharina Driessen (79), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriana van der Hoorn (84), Leiden
• Alida Hovestad
• Alphons Joseph Versaevel (71), ,, Dirksland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Hoorn (84), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Kau (79), Mypolonga, South Australia
• Arjen Jetzes Dijkstra (83), Nij Beets

• 1947 » George Alec Effinger, American author († 2002)
• 1947 » James Morris, American opera singer
• 1947 » Peer Steinbrück, German politician, German Minister of Finance
• 1948 » Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1948 » Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1949 » George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman
• 1949 » Kemal Derviş, Turkish economist and politician, Turkish Minister of Economy
• 1949 » Linda Lovelace, American porn actress and activist († 2002)
• 1950 » Roy Blunt, American academic and politician
• 1952 » Scott Thurston, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1941 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Joe Penner, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1941 » John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (b. 1867)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Gerrit
8. Pieter
9. Peter
10. Dirk
11. Petrus
12. Jacob
13. Jacobus
14. Adrianus
15. Wilhelmus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Hendrika
10. Marianne
11. Adriana
12. Margaretha
13. Mary
14. Linda
15. Jacoba
16. Geertruida

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
• February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
• July 4 » Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
• July 11 » Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
• July 16 » Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
• October 19 » Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
• October 19 » Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.

The temperature on January 10, 1950 was between -2.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.