About the day » Wednesday August 23, 1950Calender converter

• Eric Lester Winters, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Gerard de Bakker, Roosendaal († 2016)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1950)
• Jan Berend (Bennie) (Maatje (geboren Pool)) Maatje, Emmen, gemeente Emmen, Nederland († 2016)
• Thijs Werkman († 2020)
• naamloos Stokman, Nieuwveen († 1950)
• Levenloos geboren Stokman, Nieuwveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Clifton Earl Barnett Jr*, El Paso, Texas († 2010)
• Lieve Claeys, Sint-Laureins († 2011)
• Petrus Jacobus Maria de Rijk, Amsterdam († 1998)

• Christiaan Boudwn Plugge (69), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonius Lodewijk Nieskens (75), Mechelen, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Boonstra (49), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Abram Lustig (43), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Adriaan Hendricus Waller (90), Zoeterwoude
• Berendina Olde Theussink (70), Oldenzaal
• Barta Vogelzang (51), Tiel
• Antonius Verweij (68), Utrecht (Utrecht)
• Antonius Verweij (68), Utrecht
• Cornelia Maria Sonneveld (23)

• 1948 » Atef Bseiso, Palestinian intelligence officer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1949 » Shelley Long, American actress
• 1949 » Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
• 1950 » Luigi Delneri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1951 » Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic († 2004)
• 1951 » Allan Bristow, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 » Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2014)
• 1951 » Mark Hudson, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1951 » Queen Noor of Jordan

• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)

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. 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.
• January 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
• January 17 » The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
• January 21 » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
• July 24 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
• October 9 » The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
• October 16 » The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published.

The temperature on August 23, 1950 was between 14.2 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.