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• Patrick Vandenberg, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Joseph Jacobs, Mortsel, 2640, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2007)
• Alida Cornelia Hendrika van Dam († 1975)
• Antonia Cornelia Maria Gosens, Gilze en Rijen
• Antje van der Wiel, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Gertruda Catharina Maria Oomen, Oud-Gastel
• Hans Swanik, Breukelen, Nederland († 2003)
• Roelof Schonewille, Bruchterveld, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 2021)
• William Urban FLEEGE († 1994)
• Roelof Schonewille († 2021)

• 'n Levenloos geboren kind van van der Hoorn (0), Ter Aar (Papenveer)
• Adriana Johanna Snijder (47), Loenersloot, 3634, Nederland
• Albert Toepoel (64), Losser
• Dirkje Plaizier (84), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cassie Ilene Morgan (19), Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee
• Cornelia Johanna van de Ven Sauveur (77), Putten
• Arthur Edson Maxham (65), Northfield, Washington Co., Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Christiaan Lohr (86), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries de Groot (77), Hoogeveen
• Baukje Reinouts van Haga (64), Rijswijk, ZH, Nederland

• 1945 » Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1945 » Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland († 2013)
• 1946 » Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician († 2000)
• 1947 » Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1948 » Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
• 1948 » Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
• 1949 » Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
• 1949 » Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1950 » Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress

• 1939 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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.
• March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
• April 18 » The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.
• April 28 » The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
• November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
• November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• December 7 » Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.

The temperature on May 29, 1949 was between 6.5 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.