About the day » Tuesday April 18, 1950Calender converter

• Leuntje van der Plas, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Juanita Elizabeth McCoy († 2015)
• Afina Catharina de Jong, Amsterdam († 2022)
• Herman Anthony Izelaar, Zuid-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Minic Engelen († 1974)
• John Oostenbrink († 2014)
• Henk ter Veen († 2011)
• Andrea Margherita Barker-Benfield († 1986)
• Berlinda D’hamers, Kallo († 1971)
• Marie Anne Faulks, Landgrove (Vermont) († 2012)

• Adrianus van Dijk (83), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Bernardus******* HEERINGS (0), Eindhoven(N-Br.)
• Anneke van Velsen (2)
• Barend Wijnberg (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Betje Barbera de Koning (83), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• ANNA Louise Johanna Catharine KÜSEL (56)
• Agness Lynagh (57), Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Johannes Bernardus+++++ HEERINGS (0), Eindhoven(N-Br.)
• Caroline Dorothy ( Carrie) Girard (54), De Motte Jasper Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Enschot (76), Breda

• 1947 » Dorothy Lyman, American actress
• 1947 » Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia († 2013)
• 1948 » Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 » Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
• 1950 » Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1950 » Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1950 » Paul Callery, Australian footballer
• 1950 » Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer († 1992)
• 1951 » Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 » Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach

• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (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 17 » The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
• May 5 » Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand.
• May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• July 11 » Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
• September 23 » Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
• 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 April 18, 1950 was between 4.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.