About the day » Sunday August 20, 1950Calender converter

• Nellie Westerdijk († 2013)
• Beverly Jean Blackburn, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia († 1997)
• Esther Paulette Logan, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States († 1950)
• Rudolf Marinus Nicolaas Stavast, Haarlem,2000,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Arie Meijvogel, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Camille Marie Stephanus Boden, Brustem, België († 2002)
• Irma de Waard, Alkmaar († 2006)
• Janice Kay de Groote, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa († 2017)
• Arend Hummelman, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Joseph Thomas BLACKEBY, Riverside, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2015)

• Antoon Johan Flinker (82), Dongen
• Antje Schagen (86), Westblokker
• Bridget Dacey (68), aged 68 years, Petersham, Sydney, NSW, AU
• Alida Nellestijn (68), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Hermans (69), Hillegom, Gemeente Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Sloots* (85), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arrien Scheer (79), Losser
• Adriana Maria van den Berg (81), Voorburg
• Bernhard Heinrich Heidotting (66), Nordhorn, Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Antoon Johan Flinker- (82), Dongen, Nederland

• 1947 » Alan Lee, English painter and illustrator
• 1948 » John Noble, Australian actor and director
• 1948 » Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
• 1949 » Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1988)
• 1949 » Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer († 1986)
• 1951 » DeForest Soaries, American minister and politician, 30th Secretary of State of New Jersey
• 1952 » Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2010)
• 1952 » John Emburey, English cricketer and coach
• 1952 » John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter († 2013)

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)

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 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
• January 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
• May 19 » Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
• August 18 » Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
• October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
• November 26 » Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.

The temperature on August 20, 1950 was between 8.4 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.