About the day » Thursday March 23, 1950Calender converter

• Johanna Hendrika"Joke" Vlijm, Semarang († 2008)
• Geert Oosterveen, Avereest († 2020)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1950)
• Bouke de Bruin († 1997)
• Bert keppel († 2002)
• NN Haegmans, Maastricht († 1950)
• Martinus Mutter, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2010)
• Agatha Vlooswijk († 1984)
• June BROOKS, Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA († 1987)
• Cornelus Jozef Maria Sanders, Den Dungen († 2021)

• Barend Willem Esvelt (73), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Button (88), Fort Plain (Montgomery County) (New York)
• Bernabe Garcia (71), Laredo, Webb, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Bertus van der BIJL (71), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van der Linde (89), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Wiel (57), Tilburg
• Catherine Mary Scherer (85), New Hamburg, Scott, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Alwine Alexander van Norden (30), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Albert Lubberink (74), Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bertus van der Bijl (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1948 » Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and politician
• 1948 » Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer
• 1949 » Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer († 2019)
• 1950 » Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author and translator
• 1950 » Corinne Cléry, French actress
• 1950 » Phil Lanzon, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1951 » Adrian Reynard, English businessman, founded Reynard Motorsport
• 1951 » Ron Jaworski, American football player and sportscaster
• 1952 » Francesco Clemente, Italian painter and illustrator
• 1952 » Kent Lambert, New Zealand rugby player

• 1953 » Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1955 » Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Said Nursî, Turkish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Albert Bloch, American painter and educator (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Jack Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)

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.
• January 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
• February 9 » Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
• March 12 » The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
• May 19 » A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
• May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• August 29 » Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

The temperature on March 23, 1950 was between 5.1 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.