About the day » Sunday March 5, 1950Calender converter

• Emma Jean Westra, Friesland, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Franciscus Johannes Hubertus Heffels, Born, Limburg, Nederland († 1950)
• EDMUNDUS KASPAREK, DE KLINGE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1995)
• Paul Jurrien Alexander Lups, Bandung († 1968)
• Aurea Lucia D' Epiro, Serra Azul, São Paulo, Brasil († 2017)
• Luiz Barreto de Siqueira, Arujá, São Paulo, Brasil († 2019)
• Johannes Antonius Kamphuis, Heino (Lenthe), Nederland († 2010)
• Johannes Otto Maria BLOM, Amsterdam († 1978)
• Carel Botha, Zuid Afrika († 1950)
• Michael A Hammond, East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2018)

• Aaltjen Slijkhuis (65), Apeldoorn,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Dam (89), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Camillus Theosophilus van Belleghem (92), Nieuwmunster, WVld, Be
• Anna Clazina Breukel (83), Delft, Nederland
• Catharina Petrnla Westgeest (76), Ter Aar
• Bastiana Wilhelmina Bijl (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berta Elizabet Maria Waanders (70), Almelo
• Anthony Francis VANDEN BERG (75), Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Pieternella Westgeest (76), Ter Aar
• Anna IJpelaar (70), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1948 » Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician
• 1948 » Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
• 1948 » Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach († 2011)
• 1948 » Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter († 1984)
• 1948 » Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar († 2008)
• 1949 » Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
• 1949 » Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
• 1949 » Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1952 » Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach († 2010)

• 1940 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
• 1953 » Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
• 1953 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1955 » Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)

• 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 21 » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
• January 31 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• July 4 » Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
• October 19 » Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
• 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.
• December 2 » Korean War: Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ended, with decisive Chinese victory, UN forces were completely expelled from North Korea.

The temperature on March 5, 1950 was between 6.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.