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• Antjo Johan Meijerhof, Echt († 2015)
• Jan Wagenaar, Hoogkarspel, Holland, Netherlands († 1978)
• Daniel Jean Gabriel GRESSIER († 2022)
• Neeltje van der Keyl, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Arnoldus Antonius Nicolaas Verhoeven, Millingen aan de Rijn († 2007)
• Marie-José Samyn, Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2006)
• Don William Statser, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Johan Ulens († 2006)
• John van Wieren Jr., Hammond, IN
• Dennis Tackett, Galena, KS († 2017)

• Arina van der Vlies (76), Sliedrecht
• Antoni Gębicki (68), Sosnowiec
• Adrianus Cornelis Kalkman (74), Gouda
• Andries Henkemans (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Maria Mulder (61), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Carl Viktor MANN (59), München, Bayern, Deutschland
• Antje Wynia (73), Smallingerland
• Anthonie Abraham van Luijk (85), Oostburg
• Andries HENKEMANS (80), 's Gravenhage
• Antje Nolthuis

• 1947 » Al Bumbry, American baseball player
• 1947 » Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1947 » John Weider, English bass player
• 1948 » Dieter Fromm, German runner
• 1948 » Gary Condit, American businessman and politician
• 1948 » Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist
• 1948 » Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2008)
• 1949 » Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
• 1950 » Shivaji Satam, Indian actor
• 1951 » Tony Danza, American actor and producer

• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
• 1956 » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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 14 » The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
• February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• March 10 » Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
• 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.
• October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
• November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

The temperature on April 21, 1949 was between 2.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.