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• OG van Hanswijk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• van Hanswijk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Petrus Adrianus Wijnker, Heerhugowaard († 1975)
• Ghislain Leus, Vlierzele († 1949)
• Anton Wolter De Jonge, Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway († 2020)
• Gezina Schlimback, Onstwedde, 9591, Netherlands († 1949)
• Magda Rosa Jospehine Haesevoets, Alken, België († 1950)
• Anja Elsje Renee Gerners, Haarlem
• Francisca Alberta Blok, Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands († 1989)
• Hay Henricus Antonius Maria Lichteveld, Maasbree († 2023)

• Antonia Maria - Anne Marsman (53), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Parlevliet (75), Wassenaar
• Adriana Hendrika van den Broek, Teteringen
• van der Zwaag (0), Leeuwarden
• Antje Jansen (69), Harkstede, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Amélie Marie Léonie GUILLEMOT (49), Trémeur, 22250, France
• Constant De Schryver (57), Erembodegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgie
• Antoinette Maria Cornelia van Rijckevorsel (70), Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Brunis Lodder (75), Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• "Sigrid" Mathilde Leonie Hermine Magdalene von Bernewitz (36), Berlin

• 1947 » France Gall, French singer († 2018)
• 1947 » John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
• 1948 » Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
• 1949 » Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2016)
• 1950 » Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1950 » Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 » Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
• 1950 » Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer

• 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)

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.
• February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
• August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
• November 26 » The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
• December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
• December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

The temperature on October 9, 1949 was between 8.6 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.