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• Doodgeboren kind Wagemakers, Tilburg († 1949)
• NN Zwart, Elburg
• Gary M ELLETT, Salina, Saline County, Kansas, United States of America († 2010)
• Hendricus Antonius Ignatius Peters, amsterdam († 1985)
• Gaar Kroon († 2008)
• Martinus Kipping, Kaatsheuvel († 1949)
• Duane Carl Peacock, Alma, Gratiot Co., MI († 2012)
• Durkje Woudstra, Boelenslaan († 2012)
• Ria Rijkhoff, Spanbroek († 1985)
• Yntske Muntjewerff, Grosthuizen, Avenhorn († 2021)

• Anna Constantia van Soest (69), Doorn (UTR) The Netherlands
• Arnout Snijders (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrijanus BIJLSMA (68), Uithuizen
• Adela Clementina POPPE (67), Waasmunster,9250,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Zuidema (69), Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Angenita Catharina Arends (33), Enschede
• Antonius Thomas Petrus van Keulen (48), Oisterwijk
• adrianus DINTEREN (57), oud-beijerland
• Arie HERMSEN (68), Haarlem
• Aaldert Hendriks Vos (66), Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1947 » Jeanne Shaheen, American educator and politician, 78th Governor of New Hampshire
• 1948 » Bob Moses, American drummer
• 1948 » Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
• 1949 » Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach
• 1949 » Mike Moore, New Zealand union leader and politician, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1950 » Barbi Benton, American actress, singer and model
• 1950 » David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut
• 1950 » Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
• 1950 » Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
• 1951 » Brian Bilbray, American politician

• 1939 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1924)
• 1947 » Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
• 1948 » Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1949 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)

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.
• January 15 » Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
• May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
• June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
• August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
• 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 January 28, 1949 was between -2.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.