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• Valère Georges Joseph Vautmans, Alken († 2012)
• Albert Anné, Temse, België († 2021)
• Alphons Goudsblom, Warmenhuizen († 2008)
• Paul Joseph Carolus Bernardus Maria BOELEN, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1949)
• Johanna Catharina Agnes Oosterhuis, Haarlem († 2010)
• Marie-José Lyphout, Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2023)
• Emma Francisca Eduarda Henrica Maria Aarts, Tilburg († 1951)
• Maria Antonia Petronella Maria Schellen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2022)
• Ingrid Holtrop, Amsterdam († 2011)
• NN van der Wielen, Lith († 1949)

• Anna Catharina Driessen (53), Reuver, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antje Pieters Wiersma (0), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Banga (0), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Vermolen (73), Haarlem
• Berend Arends Orsel (70), Havelte
• Bernhard Rickermann (93), Aschendorf
• Andries Christian Hoogerhoud (66), Handel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Cornelis van den Wijngaard (64), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Anna Cornelia Luijken (71), Tilburg
• Bernardus Cornelis van den Wijngaard (64), Hoog en Lage Zwaluwen

• 1947 » Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress
• 1947 » Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1948 » Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician
• 1948 » Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
• 1948 » Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach († 2011)
• 1948 » Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter († 1984)
• 1948 » Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar († 2008)
• 1949 » Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
• 1949 » Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
• 1949 » Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1940 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
• 1953 » Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
• 1953 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1955 » Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Jacobus
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.
• 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.
• March 10 » Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
• May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
• May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
• July 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• December 13 » The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

The temperature on March 5, 1949 was between -7.2 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.