About the day » Wednesday July 20, 1949Calender converter

• Margorie A. van der Weit, Chicago
• Ronald Homrich, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• John Peter Esvelt, Spokane, Washington († 2009)
• Calvin Swan, Jersey City, NJ
• Judy Jane Thompson († 2002)
• NN Jansen, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Hoekstra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Johannes Luyf, Hilversum († 2009)
• Cili de Rijk, Dreumel († 1965)
• Stephen Ronald GWINN, Lynwood, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America († 2019)

• Catharina Maria Nieman (80), Utrecht
• Adrianus Kouwenhoven (75), Rijswijk
• Catharina Maria Nieman (80), Utrecht
• Wens Josephus (50), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus (Franciscus) Kouwenhoven (75), Rijswijk
• Agatha Maria Rens (67), Beverwijk
• Antje Sakes Jongbloed (83), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltjen (Aaltje) Doldersum (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Lemmens (69), Sittard
• Adrianus Franciscus Kouwenhoven (75), Delft Nederland

• 1945 » John Lodge, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1945 » Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 » Larry Craig, American soldier and politician
• 1946 » Randal Kleiser, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 » Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Gerd Binnig, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 » Muse Watson, American actor and producer
• 1950 » Edward Leigh, English lawyer and politician
• 1950 » Lucille Lemay, Canadian archer
• 1951 » Jeff Rawle, English actor and screenwriter

• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Ludwig Beck, German general (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Abdullah I, king of Jordan (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Jan Struther, English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
• 1956 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (b. 1868)
• 1959 » William D. Leahy, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (b. 1875)

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.
• June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 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.
• July 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
• October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
• December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

The temperature on July 20, 1949 was between 6.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.