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• Greet DE ROUCK, Ninove († 1989)
• Hendrik van der Schaaf, St. Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• Joanna M. Haring, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Craig Kent Plagge († 1979)
• Mattheus (Theo) Lorier, Oost &, West-Souburg, Netherlands († 2007)
• Gerard van Dijk, Zaandijk, Nederland († 1949)
• Willy André Van den Bossche, Maldegem-Adegem († 2023)
• Odile de Thomas de Labarthe, Saint-Vaast-sur-Seulles, Calvados, France († 2020)
• Alphonsus Henricus Gregorius (Alphons) Eijkholt, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1961)
• Hans Timmer († 2014)

• Anna Wubben (74), Bloemendaal
• Anna Wubben (74), Bloemendaal
• Antje Dekker (84), Harenkarspel (gem. Schagen)
• Alberta Johanna Perik (46), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• adriana anna de wolf (62)
• Angelina Frechette (61)
• Adriana Ernest (64), Halsteren
• Adriana Maria van den Dobbelsteen (59), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Smits (72), Eindhoven
• Adriana Maria van den Dobbelsteen (59), Eindhoven

• 1946 » Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager († 2010)
• 1947 » Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
• 1948 » Gilbert Levine, American conductor and academic
• 1949 » J.P. Pennington, American country-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Mike Caldwell, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 » Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1950 » Frank Schade, American basketball player and coach
• 1950 » Paul Bew, Northern Irish historian and academic
• 1951 » Leon Roberts, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 » Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach († 1989)

• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 » William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1950 » Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 » Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Petrus
11. Peter
12. Dirk
13. Jacob
14. Wilhelmus
15. Jacobus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Marianne

• 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 9.9 million citizens.
• January 1 » United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
• April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
• June 19 » The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Speedway, where Jim Roper would win the inaugural event.
• July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
• July 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

The temperature on January 22, 1949 was between -1.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.