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• Jacoba Willy den Heijer, Den Haag († 1949)
• Jos Valkering, Limmen
• René Otten, Sint-Truiden, België († 2025)
• Paulus Vellekoop († 2020)
• Son of Walter & Greta Aukes, fortasse, somewhere in IA († 1949)
• Susan Philomene Falkner, Windsor, Ontario († 2014)
• Cornelia Maria van Golberdinge, Amsterdam († 1950)
• N.N. Nadorp, Klein Driene, 7557, Nederland († 1949)
• Teuntje Cornelia van den Berg, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1949)
• Anna Elisabeth Geertruida Maria Plasmeijer († 2012)

• Alphonse VAN COPPENOLLE (81), Ellezelles,7890,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Abraham Leenhouts (68), Groede, Zeeland, NL
• Anna Christina Wilhelmina Hartmann (80), Altona, Hamburg, Germany
• Anna Vincentina Kuijvenhoven (70), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Antje Boersma (64), Warns, gem. Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland
• Barta Van Gend (78), Ouderijn
• Albert Jan Wormgoor (74), Neede
• Anna Vincenta Kuijvenhoven (70), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Jans Boersma (64), Warns, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Bouman (77), Veenendaal

• 1945 » Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player († 2013)
• 1945 » J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1945 » Larry Little, American football player
• 1946 » Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1946 » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer († 2001)
• 1947 » Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer
• 1949 » Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
• 1951 » Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer
• 1951 » Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic
• 1952 » Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer

• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (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.
• February 17 » Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
• March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• April 28 » The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
• May 20 » In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
• 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 November 2, 1949 was between -2.9 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.