About the day » Tuesday March 21, 1950Calender converter

• levenloos geboren kind van Hattum, Maarssen
• Jannie van der Weijden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Mattheus Wilhelmus Jozef van Westerop, Noordwijk († 2023)
• Peter Johannes Hendrix, Maasbree († 1975)
• N.N. van Loon, Gilze en Rijen († 1950)
• Brigida Filomena Boeldak, Curaçao
• Johannes Cornelis Notting, den haag († 1950)
• Neeltje Kraaijeveld, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Leon Leonardus Martinus Victor Heijnen, Heerlen, Nederland († 1979)
• van Hattum, Maarssen († 1950)

• Adriana Helena Zuidweg (55), Delfzijl
• Berendina van Ulzen (87), enschede
• Benjamin Jansen (52), Wormerveer, Nederland
• Albert Leonard Perrenet (51), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne van der Heide Wijma (79), Amsterdam
• Anna Margaretha Grosheide (57), Amsterdam
• Arie Dijkslag (8), Zwolle
• Anna Maria Drishen (70), Walbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Arthur Clyde Alexander (58), Santa Clara, California
• Anna Marie Martha Bradtke (83), South Australia, Australia

• 1948 » Scott Fahlman, American computer scientist and academic
• 1949 » Alvin Kallicharran, Guyanese cricketer and coach
• 1949 » Andy Love, Scottish-English politician
• 1949 » Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2019)
• 1949 » Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, and academic
• 1950 » Roger Hodgson, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1950 » Ron Oden, American minister and politician, 19th Mayor of Palm Springs
• 1950 » Sergey Lavrov, Russian politician and diplomat, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 » Conrad Lozano, American bass player
• 1951 » Russell Thompkins Jr., American soul singer

• 1934 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1936 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish general and politician (b. 1877)
• 1939 » Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (b. 1894)
• 1951 » Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1871)
• 1953 » Ed Voss, American basketball player (b. 1922)
• 1956 » Hatı Çırpan, Turkish politician (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Cyril M. Kornbluth, American soldier and author (b. 1923)

• 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 31 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
• August 20 » Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Nakdong River and assault the city of Taegu.
• September 26 » Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
• 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 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 March 21, 1950 was between 8.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.