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• levenloos van Hooijdonk, Zundert, Nederland († 1949)
• Jan De Vries, Lemmer († 1995)
• Marijke VOS, Eindhoven (NL/NB) († 2012)
• Henricus Cornelis Maria van Leer, Maasbree († 1957)
• Adrianus Martinus Maria Ermers, Mill en Sint Hubert (N.Br.) († 1950)
• Elizabeth Louise Meester († 1949)
• Hessel Mous, Balk († 2009)
• Adrie van den Akker, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Wilhelmina Geertruida Adriana Kouwenberg, Den Haag († 2006)
• Christa (Christina) Polmans, Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland († 2013)

• Anna Maria Goes (54), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Catharina Groenen (78), Overpelt
• Anna Maria Catharina Groenen (78), Overpelt
• Andrew Jackson Bullington (74), Warren, Kentucky
• Adrianus van der Hor (80), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Elizabeth Klases Galema (71), Workum, Friesland, Nederland
• Dieuwertje de Vet (62), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Klazes Galema (71), Workum, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Alphonsus Josephus van Dongen (50), Tilburg
• Egbert Vos (52), Emmen

• 1948 » Brian Wilson, Scottish journalist and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
• 1948 » Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 » Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter († 1970)
• 1948 » Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1949 » R. A. MacAvoy, American computer programmer and author
• 1949 » Randy Owen, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Robert Lindsay, English actor and singer
• 1949 » Tom Verlaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » Linda Bellos, English businesswoman and politician
• 1950 » Wendie Malick, American actress, model and comedian

• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
• 1954 » John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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.
• January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• August 3 » The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
• 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 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
• November 3 » Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.

The temperature on December 13, 1949 was between -0.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.