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• Gerda Gerritsen, Deventer († 1979)
• Bernardina Maria Johanna van den Heuvel, Breda († 2021)
• Anna de Vries, Den Helder († 2008)
• Arlys Lee van der Werf, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1949)
• N.N. van den Enk, Apeldoorn († 1949)
• Lies Johanna Lelijveld († 2016)
• N.N. van Son, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1949)
• Lies Johanna Lelijveld- († 2016)
• Frans Gerard Leicher, Rotterdam († 2015)
• Joe Gattis († 2010)

• Betje Dirks de Gooijer (73), Bussum
• Aleida Amelink (50), Enschede
• Abraham van Varik (82), Woerden, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Antonie van Deelen (72), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrik Blommers (82), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiana Wilhelmina Verbaan (49), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Cornelia Wendel, van (50), Zwolle, Nederland
• Adrianus de Jong (82), Franeker
• Albert Kreiken (72), Zeist
• Clodomira Ortiz de Siqueira (61), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1945 » David Chase, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 » Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 » Cindy Williams, American actress and producer
• 1947 » Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer-songwriter
• 1948 » David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 » Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
• 1949 » Doug Bair, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 » Ray Burris, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 » Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 1952 » Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)

• 1940 » Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)

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 15 » Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
• May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
• September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
• September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
• September 30 » The Berlin Airlift ends.
• 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 August 22, 1949 was between 10.7 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.