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• Franciscus Anthonius Johannes van Lieshout, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Robert Vernon Dorst († 2019)
• Geertruida Maria Gehring, Almelo († 2022)
• Cornelis Rietveld, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• NN de Nijs, Rotterdam
• Johannes Aldert Weggemans, Hoogeveen
• Pieter Buigel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1949)
• NN Simons, Gennep († 1949)
• Fennegien (Fenny) Zwikker, 's-Gravenhage († 2014)
• Emilie Louise (Lily) Vehmeijer, Vugt, NB, Nederland († 1953)

• Alida Willemina van den Dool (66), Leiden
• Adrianus van Leeuwen (74), Boskoop, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Postma (70), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Willemina van den Dool (66), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• * Aafje den Hollander (72), Woerden
• Albert Jan Pluim (86), Olst (Ov Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Antonia Hegge (64), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Spijksma (39), Hoorn
• Aafje den Hollander (72), Woerden, Nederland
• Alje Jacob Krol (86), Hoogezand-Sappemeer

• 1947 » Mark Volman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
• 1947 » Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara, English civil servant
• 1947 » Yan Pascal Tortelier, French violinist and conductor
• 1948 » Rick Miller, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 » Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host and author († 2017)
• 1949 » Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot († 1993)
• 1949 » Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer
• 1950 » Julia Cleverdon, English businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1951 » Barry Brown, American actor and playwright († 1978)

• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

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. Jacobus
15. Wilhelmus
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.
• February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• February 17 » Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
• April 18 » The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.
• May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
• June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.

The temperature on April 19, 1949 was between 6.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.