About the day » Friday September 8, 1950Calender converter

• NN Verberne († 1950)
• Claudine Anne Marie Calvi, Épinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France († 2004)
• Cherry Edith Ann Satterley († 2010)
• NN Oosterloo, Smilde
• Abram Balder, Broek op L'dijk († 2004)
• Sara J. Visser, Sheboygan, Wisconsin († 2017)
• W.G.M. (Helma) PERSOONS, Oisterwijk (NL/NB) († 2023)
• Jozef Antoine VERCAMMEN, Lommel († 2010)
• N Wolken, Nieuw Schoonebeek († 1950)
• Ingrid (Inge) von Winckelmann, Den Haag († 1998)

• Adrianus van Mil (71), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• CORNELIA MOSTERD (89), WORMERVEER
• Arie Janmaat (89), Mijdrecht (U)
• Cornelia Cardinaal (90), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Boston Corbet WRIGHT (73), Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States
• Aletta de Koning (73), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
• Arie de Mik (48), Canada
• Adrianus van Mil (71), Vlaardingen
• Aaltje Pauw (66), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Bastiaantje Bokhout (85), Oud-Beijerland

• 1948 » Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler
• 1948 » Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist († 1971)
• 1949 » Edward Hinds, English physicist and academic
• 1950 » Ian Davidson, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1950 » Mike Simpson, American dentist and politician
• 1950 » Zachary Richard, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1951 » Dezső Ránki, Hungarian pianist
• 1951 » John McDonnell, English politician
• 1951 » Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach († 1996)
• 1951 » Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach

• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1949 » Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)
• 1954 » André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1904)
• 1965 » Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1965 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
• July 11 » Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
• September 4 » Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
• November 1 » Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
• November 8 » Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
• November 13 » General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

The temperature on September 8, 1950 was between 8.9 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.