About the day » Sunday June 26, 1949Calender converter

• Barbara Ann Doherty, Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Roger Lee Barney, Greenup Co († 1981)
• Carel Marius Wijkmans, Hillegom († 2013)
• Dennis William Anderson, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States († 2014)
• NN Spijkers, Tilburg
• Robert Lee Kramer, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Christoffel Hubertus Jr. VERBREE, Den Haag († 2009)
• Marthe DE VROOME, Den Bosch (NL/NB) († 2011)
• Trijntje Klein, Sauwerd († 2000)
• Lydia Agatha van der Jagt, Katwijk († 2004)

• Alvina Eleanor Kruize (22), Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Alida Catharina van Arkel (44), Haaften
• Dirkje Nikkels (69), Zwolle
• Anna Maria van den Boomen (77), Eindhoven
• Aaltje de Groot (67), Winschoten
• Edgard Guenter (48)
• Aaltje Bezu (63), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Cornelis Andries Stoffijn (85), Terneuzen
• August VEREECKE (59), Ichtegem Belgie
• Bartel willem Vallenduuk (76), Haarlem

• 1943 » Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
• 1944 » Gennady Zyuganov, Russian colonel and politician
• 1946 » Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist († 2013)
• 1949 » Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1949 » Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author († 2015)
• 1949 » Mary Styles Harris, American biologist and geneticist
• 1951 » Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager († 2014)
• 1952 » Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1952 » Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist († 1979)
• 1954 » Luis Arconada, Spanish footballer

• 1943 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880)
• 1947 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1949 » Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
• 1956 » Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
• 1957 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)

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 11 » The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• February 14 » The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
• April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
• 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.
• July 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• August 3 » The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

The temperature on June 26, 1949 was between 7.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.