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• Jacobus Arnoldus Cornelis Vermeulen, Rotterdam († 1949)
• Oege Reinderts Hoekstra, Suawoude († 1980)
• Willy Henri Joannes GILLIS, Merksplas, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1971)
• Max George Ibeling, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2007)
• Benardus Franciscus Johannes De Koning, 's Gravenhage († 2019)
• James Milton Rash, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas († 1993)
• Cornelia Antonia Mechelina Henrica Vereijken, Tilburg, Nordbrabant, Niederlande († 2019)
• Maria Berendina Pieper, Slagharen († 2011)
• Roelof Otto JAGER, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Maria Regina van der Maaten, 's-Gravenhage († 2020)

• Anna Adriana VAN DEN HOUDT (55), Nijmegen, Province of Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antje Dijkstra (70), Sneek
• Albert Thomas Crider (55)
• Angèle ORIAL (65), Luché-Pringé, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
• Alijda Ederveen (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Carroll Fulton Leser (49), Baltimore, MD
• Anna Elisabeth van Berkel (64), Tilburg, Nbr.NL
• Adrianus Cornelis Rampart (68), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Boele Tienstra (59), leeuwarden
• Anna Elisabeth Berkel van (64), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1948 » Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch rock musician
• 1948 » Earl Blumenauer, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon
• 1948 » Joey Spampinato, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1948 » Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 » Pierre Reid, Canadian educator and politician
• 1949 » Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1949 » Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach
• 1949 » Scott Asheton, American drummer († 2014)
• 1950 » Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian runner
• 1950 » Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)

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 3 » The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
• September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
• October 1 » The People's Republic of China is established.
• November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

The temperature on August 16, 1949 was between 10.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.