About the day » Friday December 9, 1949Calender converter

• Ruud Martens, Helmond († 1949)
• Robert D Kluiter († 1983)
• Geertje Koers, Kamperveen, Nederland († 2011)
• Debora Burton, Los Angeles, California († 2011)
• Edward Terry Wilson, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Xenia Sophie Charlotte Cecilie Hohenzollern of Prussia, Oberneuland, Stadtgemeinde Bremen, Bremen, Germany († 1992)
• Leo Gerard Bondy, Windsor, Ontario, Canada († 2016)
• NN Gulikers, Venlo († 1949)
• NN Fortunati, 's-Gravenhage
• Evert Dijkhuizen, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, V.S († 2012)

• Albertje Ottjes (89), Wildervank (gem. Veendam)
• Betje Lieuwes de Jong (79), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van den Akker (37), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus van Griensven (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adolf Hendrik Leonardus Voorhout (58), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Antoinetta Janssen (78), Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Meijer (92), Diepenveen
• Anna Hendrika Keijzer (65), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Bernardus Witte (63), nijmegen
• Charles BUTLER (75), Flintham, Nottinghamshire, England

• 1946 » David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic
• 1946 » Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter
• 1946 » Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
• 1947 » Allan Jones, English cricketer and umpire
• 1947 » Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense
• 1947 » Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician
• 1948 » Jonathan Sumption, English historian, author, and judge
• 1948 » Marleen Gorris, Dutch director and screenwriter
• 1949 » Tom Kite, American golfer and architect
• 1950 » Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1957 » Ali İhsan Sâbis, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)

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.
• March 8 » President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
• October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
• October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
• October 25 » The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

The temperature on December 9, 1949 was between -0.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.