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• Sijtze Karsten, Appelscha, Friesland, Nederland († 1968)
• Johanna Margaretha Zijm, Den Burg († 1955)
• Lawrence R Dattory II, New York, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Johanna│Joke de Roode, Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Roger Allen Postema, Lemont Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1954)
• Paulette Marie Alexander († 2006)
• Wim Borst, Castricum († 1951)
• Kenneth W jellema, Goshen, Orange County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Everdina Walet, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1950)
• Wilhelmus Petrus Maria Vis, Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)

• Albert Jan Keizer (83), Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelia Poel (0), Harderwijk
• Adriana Nieuwkerk (77), Fijnaart en Heijnigen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Anna Pieterdina Kuipers (90), Den Bosch
• Bartha Rorije (71), Heerde
• dirksje VOLLAARD (47), oud-beijerland
• Catharina Johanna Wilhelmina de Wit (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christianna Agnes O'Callaghan (79)
• Cornelis Maria de Groot (0), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Catharina Denissen (68), Antwerpen

• 1948 » Graham J. Zellick, English academic and jurist
• 1948 » Siddaramaiah, Indian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
• 1949 » Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer († 2013)
• 1949 » Lou Martin, Northern Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer († 2012)
• 1949 » Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1949 » Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek admiral and politician
• 1949 » Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer and photographer
• 1950 » August "Kid Creole" Darnell, American musician, bandleader, singer-songwriter, and record producer
• 1950 » George McGinnis, American basketball player
• 1950 » Jim Beaver, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1941 » Bobby Peel, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1857)
• 1941 » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)
• 1943 » Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
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.
• January 20 » Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
• January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
• January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
• 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.
• September 17 » The Canadian steamship SSNoronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
• October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.

The temperature on August 12, 1949 was between 7.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.