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• Maria Alida Theodora (Ria) Lek, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Donna Lynn Willink, USA
• levenloos geboren zoon Rietveld, Zoeterwoude († 1949)
• Maria Alida Theodora Lek, Ter Aar (Korteraar) († 1956)
• Tineke Houtenbos, Heiloo († 2011)
• Mary Cecilia Williams, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Ger Achterberg († 2005)
• Johannes Cornelis van Gaalen, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Elsje van Leeuwen, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2005)
• Daniel Earl Boonstra († 2012)

• Aagje van Heukelen (67), Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van der Wiel (0), Rotterdam
• Cecilia (Cilia) van Veen (82), Nieuwveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerardina van Leeuwen (44), Rotterdam
• Arend van Dijk (68), Kampen,Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Caroline Rolf (50), near Crookston
• Charles Patton Talent (70), Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria van Poppel (78), Breda
• Arend Dries van Dijk (68)
• Cornelis Verschoor (40), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1947 » Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
• 1947 » Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
• 1947 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1997)
• 1947 » Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1948 » Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
• 1948 » Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright
• 1949 » Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer († 2015)
• 1949 » George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 » Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author († 2006)

• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)

• 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.
• March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• 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.
• September 17 » The Canadian steamship SSNoronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
• September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
• October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
• December 7 » Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.

The temperature on October 18, 1949 was between 7.4 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.