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• Guillaume Octave Jozef de Blaaij, Antwerpen, België († 1950)
• Gertie Evers († 2005)
• Sietske Postema, Groningen († 2016)
• NN van den Berg, Ermelo († 1950)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1950)
• Adrianus Johannus van der Pijl, Utrecht († 2019)
• Robertus Hendrikus Adrianus van BEEK, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1950)
• Bart Franken, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Donald R Singsime Jr († 1969)
• Hendrik Johan de Mol van Otterloo, Amsterdam († 1977)

• Cornelia van den Berg (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria LEMMENS (85), Kerkrade,,PAYS BAS
• Dina Johanna van Ingen (65), Nieuw-Helvoet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christian Johannes Jozeph van der Heijden (51), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Holmer (82), Deventer
• * Dirk Stravers (74), Rijnsburg
• Arend van der Lelij (67), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Arnoldus van Gemmert (68), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthoon Meijssen (65)
• Catharina Helena Pinxten (59), Overpelt

• 1947 » Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player and journalist († 2018)
• 1947 » Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
• 1949 » Bill Keller, American journalist
• 1949 » Philippe Starck, French interior designer
• 1950 » Gianfranco Brancatelli, Italian race car driver
• 1950 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver († 1982)
• 1951 » Bob Latchford, English footballer
• 1951 » Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and activist († 1982)
• 1952 » Michael Behe, American biochemist, author, and academic
• 1952 » R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)

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.
• May 19 » Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
• July 5 » Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
• July 11 » Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
• August 12 » Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
• November 5 » Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
• December 25 » The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.

The temperature on January 18, 1950 was between -1.8 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.