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• Sjaan Kipping († 2008)
• Danny D Ray, Hopkins County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Isedorus Henricus Maria Hebben, Maasbree († 1950)
• Baby Redmond, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Isodorus Hendrikus Maria Hebben, Kessel († 1950)
• Gerda Houwerzijl, Borgsweer († 2013)
• Elly Dijkstra, Vlagtwedde († 2023)
• Marrigje Jansje Bosch, Zuidlaren († 2003)
• Maria Helena Gerarda Wijnhoven, Baarlo († 2016)
• Petronella Maria van Leeuwen, Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2018)

• Achiel Hendrik Van Damme (52), Belsele,, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Catharina BOX (79), Valmeer, 3770, Riemst, Limburg, België
• Bartina Maria de Kruijter (70), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland
• Bertha Marie Cromley (74), Pottsgrove, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania
• Antonie Pieter Nannes (66), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angelique Mary Jackson (83), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonet SLEGERS (87), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Metze (77), Wehl, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aleander Franciscus Rijsbosch (80), Bladel en Netersel
• Adolph Wilhelm Carl Backhus (58), Hamburg, Deutschland

• 1947 » Graeham Goble, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1948 » Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1948 » Kate Bornstein, American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
• 1948 » Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, 44th Governor of Kansas
• 1948 » Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese baseball player
• 1949 » Frank L. Culbertson Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1949 » Robert S.J. Sparks, English geologist and academic
• 1950 » Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania († 2004)
• 1950 » Jim Simons, American golfer († 2005)
• 1951 » Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter († 2014)

• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)
• 1954 » William March, American soldier and author (b. 1893)
• 1956 » Austin Osman Spare, English painter and magician (b. 1886)
• 1957 » Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Keith Andrews, American race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1963 » John Aglionby, English-born Bishop of Accra and soldier (b. 1884)

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.
• April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• June 24 » The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
• October 25 » The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
• November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

The temperature on May 15, 1949 was between 5.7 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.