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• Herman Masmeijer († 2017)
• Louise van Dam, Gouda, Gemeente Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Johannes Hendricus Andreas Schnitker, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• N.N. van Tienen, Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1950)
• NN van der Ploeg, Nieuwolda († 1950)
• Fransina Brouwer, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1950)
• Jaap Zonneveld, St.Pancras († 2003)
• Geertje Pruim, Holte, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1950)
• Ivar Oddsen Amdal, Overhalla, Nord-Trøndelag († 1950)
• Gertrude Marjan Hijenga, Apeldoorn († 1999)

• Anna Beerepoot (86), Spanbroek
• Aleida van Eede (56), Deventer
• Adelaide Leslie Bowyer (58), Waimate
• Aart de Kruijff (47), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Baukje Harmens Meyer (59), Ferwerd
• Adriana Christina Arnoldus (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alva Morris (44), Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Aaffien Kiel (49), Portage (Kalamazoo County) (Michigan)
• Adriaan Margreet Maria van der Sluis (31), Rotterdam
• Aleida van Eede (56), Deventer

• 1945 » Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player († 2005)
• 1945 » John Olsen, Australian politician, 42nd Premier of South Australia
• 1945 » Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
• 1947 » Don Money, American baseball player and coach
• 1947 » Thurman Munson, American baseball player († 1979)
• 1948 » Jim Walton, American businessman
• 1952 » Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
• 1952 » Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1953 » Johnny Clegg, English- born South African singer-songwriter, guitarist and anthropologist († 2019)
• 1954 » Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet

• 1936 » Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
• 1937 » Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1942 » Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
• 1945 » Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
• 1956 » John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
• 1963 » ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

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. 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 21 » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
• May 19 » Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
• July 4 » Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
• August 1 » Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
• October 9 » The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
• November 13 » General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

The temperature on June 7, 1950 was between 15.8 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 22.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.