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• Yvonne Hendrika Maria Broekmans, Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Netherlands († 1995)
• Jacobus Arie Wischmeijer († 2000)
• Abraham Kramer, Baarn († 1952)
• Allegonda Adriana Maria Martens, Gilze en Rijen († 2008)
• Annemieke Arends, Elde, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Johanna Josepha Huberta Maria Graauwmans, Breda († 1994)
• Carolina Cornelia van Emmerloot, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1992)
• Maria Johanna van Emmerloot, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1996)
• N N levensloos Lambers, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1950)
• Marion Margreet Bunschoten, Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1955)

• Barbara Geertruida Maria de Beer (36), Nijmegen
• Aaltje Visser (76), 's Heeraartsbergstraat, Bergambacht, Nederland
• Adriana Harmina Eenink (76), Doetinchem / Gelderland
• Alida ZUIDLAND (72), Delfzijl
• Albertje Wals (43)
• Alexander "William" Larson (58)
• * Allegonda Fitters (67), Heusden
• Amelia Sidonia Staelens (84), Roeselare
• Aagje Heijndijk (68), Vierpolders, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gaudina Jacoba van den Dungen (75), Raamsdonkveer

• 1948 » Dieter Fromm, German runner
• 1948 » Gary Condit, American businessman and politician
• 1948 » Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist
• 1948 » Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2008)
• 1949 » Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
• 1950 » Shivaji Satam, Indian actor
• 1951 » Bob Varsha, American sportscaster
• 1951 » Michael Freedman, American mathematician and academic
• 1951 » Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 » Tony Danza, American actor and producer

• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
• 1956 » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Hendrika
10. Adriana
11. Marianne
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.
• January 31 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• May 5 » Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand.
• May 19 » A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
• September 23 » Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
• September 24 » The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.
• December 9 » Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

The temperature on April 21, 1950 was between 4.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.