About the day » Saturday July 30, 1949Calender converter

• Helena Maria Cox, Horst
• Levenloos kind Hemmink, Almelo († 1949)
• NN Smits, Hoensbroek,Heerlen,Limburg,Nederland († 1949)
• Julie Marilyn Pactrica TATTON, Winchester, Hampshire, England († 1983)
• Jacob (Jaap) Jonkman († 2013)
• Levenloos Uenk, Steenderen, Nederland († 1949)
• Derk Jan(Dick) Dalhuisen, Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Aaltien (Aaltje) Kuiper, Ruinen
• Judy Elaine Barry, Moultrie, Georgia (Colquitt County) († 1994)
• Johan Frederik Ernst Steinmeier, Delft († 1991)

• Christiaan Jessen (66), Susteren, Limburg, Nederland
• Andries Dekker (72), Rotterdam
• Catharina Antonia Govarda MEIJERS (73), Etten-Leur, Noord Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Cornelia Gesina Sipsma (84), Amsterdam
• Arthur David Clarke (86), Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• antonia allegonda (tonia) van oorschot (50), sterksel
• Alfred Edward Layng (24), Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
• Bauke Hessels Tacoma (86), Missaukee Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Haverkamp (78), Noordhoek,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Cornelia Brederode (75), 's Gravenhage

• 1947 » Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 » William Atherton, American actor and producer
• 1948 » Billy Paultz, American basketball player
• 1948 » Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
• 1948 » Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer († 2010)
• 1948 » Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Duck Baker, American guitarist
• 1949 » Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge
• 1950 » Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1950 » Harriet Harman, English lawyer and politician

• 1930 » Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
• 1938 » John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1941 » Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Joseph Cook, English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1970 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874)
• 1971 » Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (b. 1906)
• 1975 » James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
• 1977 » Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (b. 1885)

• 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 14 » The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
• March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
• June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
• August 3 » The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
• August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
• 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.

The temperature on July 30, 1949 was between 12.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.