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• Niek Hoen, Brunssum, Nederland († 1999)
• Gordon Emery Hunter, Windom Cottonwood Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Levenloos kind Noorlander, Gouda († 1949)
• Hendrik Pieter Mijderwijk, Zwammerdam († 1949)
• Régine TERRAS, Renaix,9600,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2010)
• Anna Christina Gertrudis Kuin, Bovenkarspel († 1949)
• Joanna M. Haring, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Gerard van Dijk, Zaandijk, Nederland († 1949)
• Craig Kent Plagge († 1979)
• Omer Jean Celestin Smets, Diepenbeek,, Limburg, Belgique († 2011)

• Anna Wubben (74), Bloemendaal
• Anna Louise de Lugt (75), Den Haag
• Anna Catharina Smits (72), Eindhoven
• Albertina Hendrika van Minnen (9), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Wubben Wubben (74), Bloemendaal, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van den Dobbelsteen (59), Eindhoven
• Antje Dekker (84), Harenkarspel
• Aalt Bartus van der Snee (71), Kampen
• Aaltje prins (65), beerta
• Alberta Johanna Perik (46), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1946 » Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager († 2010)
• 1947 » Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
• 1948 » Gilbert Levine, American conductor and academic
• 1949 » J.P. Pennington, American country-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Mike Caldwell, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 » Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1950 » Frank Schade, American basketball player and coach
• 1950 » Paul Bew, Northern Irish historian and academic
• 1951 » Leon Roberts, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 » Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach († 1989)

• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 » William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1950 » Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 » Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)

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.
• June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 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.
• October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
• October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
• December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.
• December 27 » Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.

The temperature on January 22, 1949 was between -1.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.