About the day » Wednesday December 20, 1950Calender converter

• Oekje V.d. Berg, Losser, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• N.N. van de Bunt, Nijkerk, Gld, NL († 1950)
• Johannes Anthonius Mocking, Cothen, Netherlands († 1991)
• Arie VAN ZANEN († 2024)
• Femmigje Buitenhuis, Staphorst († 2010)
• Jeanette Laanstra († 2009)
• Sjaak Bloks, Eindhoven († 1999)
• Antonius Maria Ignatius Cobelens, Djakarta,, Indonesia († 2003)
• Jan van der Meij, Katwijk († 1963)
• Bernadette GUILMOT, Lovenjoel, 24065, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique († 2024)

• Cornelia Huberta Tegelaar (51), Leiden
• Arend Scholtmeijer (65), Roden
• Beelke van der Meijden (80), Apeldoorn
• Amalia Augustine Doeve (67), Heeg
• Beelke van der Meijden (80), Apeldoorn
• Cornelia Huberta Tegelaar (51), Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Augustinus Josephus van Helvoort (74), Sint-Oedenrode
• Boukje Westra (74), Velsen, Nederland
• Adriaan Westdorp (59), Stavenisse
• Alida Antonia de Chastillon (73), Losser

• 1946 » Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician and psychic
• 1947 » Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1948 » Alan Parsons, English keyboard player and producer
• 1948 » Carol Smart, English sociologist and academic
• 1948 » Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-British pianist
• 1949 » Soumaïla Cissé, Malian engineer and politician
• 1950 » Arturo Márquez, Mexican-American composer
• 1951 » Marta Russell, American author and activist († 2013)
• 1951 » Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, Northern Irish academic and police ombudsman
• 1952 » Jenny Agutter, English actress

• 1938 » Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
• 1938 » Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)
• 1939 » Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
• 1954 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1956 » Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
• 1959 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 1961 » Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)

• 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 » Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
• April 8 » India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
• June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
• July 20 » Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
• August 29 » Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
• November 21 » Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

The temperature on December 20, 1950 was between -10.4 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -5.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.