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• Jos Stevens
• Pieter de Bock, Wymbritseradeel († 2003)
• Agnes Beatrijs Louise Maria Coops, amsterdam, Nederland († 1996)
• Victor L. May, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Gerard Samplonius
• Alida Catharina Brouwer († 2015)
• Geralyn A. DeJong († 2013)
• Fransiscus Petrus (Frans) Sneijder, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Frans van Ommeren, Zoelen († 2018)
• Jan Wassing († 2012)

• Clara Florence Guss (85)
• Benjamin Edgar KEEL (10)
• Arendje Elizabeth den Bakker (27), Rotterdam
• Antje Heslinga (92), Engelum
• Berendina Antonia Louisa van der Burg (69), Arnhem
• Anna Smit (83), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Maria van Overbruggen (65), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia van de Nijnatten (79), Princenhage
• Anna Maria Catharina Petronella Hermans (23), Heerlen
• Abraham Rensen (82), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1947 » Lembit Ulfsak, Estonian actor and director († 2017)
• 1948 » Jeremy Spencer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 » René Arnoux, French race car driver
• 1948 » Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
• 1950 » David Jensen, Canadian-English radio and television host
• 1950 » Philip Craven, English basketball player and swimmer
• 1951 » John Alexander, Australian tennis player and politician
• 1951 » Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American lawyer and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• 1951 » Ralph Johnson, American R&B drummer and percussionist
• 1951 » Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist, sociologist, and academic

• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1938 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
• 1949 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (b. 1927)
• 1963 » Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (b. 1876)

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.
• January 20 » Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
• March 1 » Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
• May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
• May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 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 July 4, 1949 was between 11.5 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 15.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.