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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1946 1947 1948 - 1949 - 1950 1951 1952

1949 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country) Rail transport - Radio - Science - Spaceflight
Sports - Television
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Deaths - Works - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1949

January

January 17: Beetle in U.S.

January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.
January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
January 5 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
January 10 - Gordon percy Fritz was born.
January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
January 11 - KDKA-TV, Becomes the first local, on-air television station.
January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)

January 19 - The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.
January 20 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.

January 25 - Forces from the Communist Party of China enter Beijing.
January 25 - The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
January 25 - In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
January 26 - Australian citizenship comes into being.

February

February 1 - Rationing of clothes ends in Britain.
13 February - António Óscar Carmona is re-elected president of Portugal for lack of an opposing candidate.
February 19 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.

March

March 1 - World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires.
March 1 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
March 2 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight(it was refueled in flight 4 times).
March 17 - The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening.
March 20 - The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
March 25 - An extensive deportation campaign is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
March 26 - The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.
March 28 - United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
March 29 - The 21st Academy Awards ceremony is held.
March 31 - The former British colony of Newfoundland and Labrador joins Canada as its 10th province.

April

April 1 - Éire leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
April 1 - The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded.
April 4 - The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance.
April 7 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song Some Enchanted Evening.
April 14 - The day the N'Ko alphabet is held to have been completed by Solomana Kante.
April 18 - Éire formally becomes the Republic of Ireland.
April 20 - The Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst (U16) goes up the Yangtze River to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it runs aground off Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt on April 26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks.
April 23 - Chinese communist troops take Nanking.
April 28 - India issues the London Declaration, enabling it (and, thereafter, any other nation) to remain in the British Commonwealth despite becoming a republic, creating the position of 'Head of the Commonwealth', and renaming the organisation as the 'Commonwealth of Nations'.
April 28 - Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
April 29 - The News Review reveals that neither Selhurst College nor its headmaster H. Rochester Sneath exist.

May

May 1 - Nereid, a moon of Neptune, is discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper.
May 5 - The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London.
May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.
May 11 - Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
May 11 - Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, a name in use since 1939.
May 12 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
May 20 - The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.
May 20 - The Kuomintang regime declares Taiwan under martial law.
May 22 - After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.

June

June 2 - Transjordan becomes the Kingdom of Jordan.
June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
June 8 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as 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 8 - George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
June 19 - Glenn Dunnaway wins the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3/4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs. Jim Roper is declared the official winner.
June 24 - The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.
June 29 - The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Korea.
June 29 - Dock workers strike in the UK.
June 29 - Apartheid: The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after 5 years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages.

July

July 20 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their 19-month war.
July 27 - The de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner, makes its first flight.
July 30 - Birth of legal aid http://www.legalservices.gov.uk
July 31 - Captain Kerans of the HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after nightfall, under heavy fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army on both sides of the Yangtze River, and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day.

August

August 5 - A 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador kills 6,000 and destroys 50 towns.
August 8 - Bhutan becomes independent
August 12 - The Fourth Geneva Convention is agreed to.
August 14 - The Salvatore Giuliano Gang explodes mines under a police barracks outside Palermo, Sicily.
A military coup in Syria ousts the president.
August 21 - Deportivo Saprissa enters Costa Rica - soccer's first division.
August 22 - The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
August 28 - The last 6 surviving veterans of the American Civil War meet in Indianapolis.
August 29 - The Council of Europe meets for the first time.
August 29 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1." Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.

September

September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
September 6 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.
September 7 - The Federal Republic of Germany is officially founded. Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.
September 9 - Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.
September 9 - Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery in Toronto.
September 13 - The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.
September 17 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
September 19 - The United Kingdom government devalues the pound sterling from $4.03 to $2.80, leading to many other currencies being devalued.
September 24 - Laszlo Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
September 29 - The First Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves a design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
September 29 - Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II.
September - Mervyn's reveals their first logo, used until 1994.

October

October 1: People's Republic of China founded.

October 1 - The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
October 7 - The Democratic Republic of Germany DDR is established officially
October 13 - Severe flooding hits Guatemala.
October 16 - Civil war ends in Greece with a communist surrender.
October 17 - Chinese communist troops take Canton, China
October 27 - Chinese communist troops fail to take Kinmen in the Battle of Kuningtou; their advance towards Taiwan is halted.
October 27 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores island of São Miguel. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.

November

December 15: Typhoon at Korea.

Dec. 16: Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.

November 15 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
November 24 - The ski resort in Squaw Valley, California officially opens.
November 26 - The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution. [1]

December

December 8 - The government of the Republic of China finishes its evacuation to Taiwan.
December 10- Robert Menzies elected prime minister of Australia.
December 14 - Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
December 15 - A typhoon strikes a fishing fleet off Korea, killing several thousand.
December 16 - Sukarno is elected president of the Republic of Indonesia.
December 17 - Burma recognizes the People's Republic of China.
December 27 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
December 30 - India recognizes the People's Republic of China.

Undated

Pamir is the last commercial sailing ship to sail round Cape Horn.
The Malta Labour Party is founded.
The Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its subterranean catacombs could be the apostle Peter; 19 years later, Pope Paul VI announces confirmation that the bones belong to this first saint.^[1]
The first 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun prototypes are completed.
Samuel Putnam publishes his new translation of Don Quixote, the first in what we would consider modern English. It is instantly acclaimed and, in 2008, is still in print.
1949 was the first year in which no African-American was lynched in the USA. ^[2]
Joseph Stalin launches a savage verbal attack on Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist.

Ongoing

Births

**1949 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1949 MCMXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2702
Armenian calendar	1398 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԸ
Bahá'í calendar	105 – 106
Berber calendar	2899
Buddhist calendar	2493
Burmese calendar	1311
Byzantine calendar	7457 – 7458
Chinese calendar	戊子年十二月初三日 (4585/4645-12-3) — to — 己丑年十一月十二日 (4586/4646-11-12)
Coptic calendar	1665 – 1666
Ethiopian calendar	1941 – 1942
Hebrew calendar	5709 – 5710
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2004 – 2005
- Shaka Samvat	1871 – 1872
- Kali Yuga	5050 – 5051
Holocene calendar	11949
Iranian calendar	1327 – 1328
Islamic calendar	1368 – 1369
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 24 (昭和24年)
Korean calendar	4282
Thai solar calendar	2492

January–February

January 2 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
January 3 - Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
January 7 - Steven Williams, American actor
January 7 - Chavo Guerrero, American wrestler
January 8 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef
January 10 - George Foreman, American boxer
January 10 - James Lapine, American stage director and librettist
January 10 - Linda Lovelace, American actress (d. 2002)
January 11 - Kalev Ots, Estonian statesman
January 12 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
January 12 - Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
January 12 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
January 14 - Nadezhda Ilyina, Soviet athlete
January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
January 14 - Mary Robison, American writer
January 17 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (Taxi) (d. 1984)
January 18 - Philippe Starck, French designer
January 19 - Robert Palmer, English musician (Addicted To Love) (d. 2003)
January 19 - Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
January 20 - Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden
January 22 - Steve Perry, American rock singer (Journey)
January 24 - John Belushi, American actor (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1982)
January 28 - Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
January 30 - Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 31 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
January 31 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
February 2 - Brent Spiner, American actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
February 2 - Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur
February 3 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
February 9 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
February 10 - Michael Weiss, jazz pianist and composer
February 10 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
February 10 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
February 15 - Ken Anderson, American NFL player
February 16 - Lyn Paul, English female singer
February 17 - Dennis Green, American football coach
February 18 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
February 19 - Dan Bunten, American computer game designer (d. 1998)
February 21 - Jerry Harrison, American new wave guitarist/keyboardist (Talking Heads)
February 21 - Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
February 22 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
February 25 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler

March–April

March 2 - Gates McFadden, American actress
March 2 - Eddie Money, American rock singer (or March 21)
March 2 - JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
March 3 - Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
March 6 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
March 6 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
March 7 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
March 9 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
March 10 - Larry Wall, American computer programmer
March 12 - Bill Payne, American rock musician (Little Feat)
March 12 - Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
March 13 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
March 14 - Michael Stedman, British World War I historian and author
March 16 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
March 16 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor (Godspell)
March 17 - Patrick Duffy, American actor (Dallas)
March 17 - Pat Rice, Irish footballer and football manager
March 18 - Alex Higgins, Irish snooker player
March 21 - Eddie Money, American rock singer
March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
March 23 - Ric Ocasek, American rock musician (The Cars)
March 24 - Nick Lowe, English musician
March 26 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
March 26 - Vicki Lawrence, American comedienne and game show hostess (The Carol Burnett Show)
March 29 - Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
March 30 - Marcia Ball, American musician
March 30 - Lene Lovich, American singer
March 30 - Naomi Sims, African-American model and businesswoman
March 30 - Elijah Harper, Canadian Aboriginal activist
April 1 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
April 1 - Sammy Nelson, Irish footballer
April 1 - Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
April 3 - Richard Thompson, English musician and songwriter
April 6 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 7 - John Oates, American rock singer and guitarist (Hall & Oates)
April 14 - John Shea, American actor
April 15 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer
April 15 - Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Polish born writer
April 16 - Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
April 18 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
April 21 - Patti Lupone, American actress
April 24 - Veronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
April 28 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)

May–June

May 2 - Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener
May 3 - Leopoldo Luque, Argentine soccer player
May 4 - John Force, American race car driver
May 9 - Billy Joel, American musician (Piano Man)
May 13 - Zoë Wanamaker, English-American actress
May 18 - Rick Wakeman, English rock musician and songwriter (Yes)
May 18 - Bill Wallace, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
May 19 - Enrique Aguirre, Spanish gynecologist who discovered cervical cancer
May 19 - Archie Manning, American football player
May 20 - Dave Thomas, Canadian actor and comedian (SCTV)
May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
May 25 - Prahladananda Swami, ISKCON religious leader
May 26 - Philip Michael Thomas, African-American actor (Miami Vice)
May 26 - Hank Williams Jr., American country singer
May 29 - Francis Rossi, English rock guitarist/singer (Status Quo)
May 31 - Tom Berenger, American actor (Platoon)
June 2 - Heather Couper, British astronomer
June 4 - Mark B. Cohen, Pennsylvania legislative leader
June 8 - Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
June 11 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian artist
June 13 - Ann Druyan, American writer
June 14 - Jimmy Lea, English rock musician (Slade)
June 14 - Harry Turtledove, American historian and novelist
June 15 - Jim Varney, American actor (Ernest Goes To Camp) (d. 2000)
June 17 - Andrei Fursenko, Russian politician, scientist and businessman
June 18 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
June 18 - Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland
June 18 - Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish Prime Minister
June 18 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
June 21 - John Agard, British writer
June 21 - Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
June 22 - Alan Osmond, American pop singer
June 22 - Meryl Streep, American actress (Kramer vs. Kramer)
June 27 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer

July–August

July 2 - David Eaton, American composer/conductor/producer
July 3 - Jan Smithers, American actress
July 3 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., African-American R&B singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
July 7 - Shelley Duvall, American actress (Popeye)
July 11 - Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
July 11 - Émerson Leão, Brazilian footballer
July 15 - Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden
July 15 - Trevor Horn, British singer and producer
July 16 - Dennis Young, American skier
July 17 - Charlie Steiner, American sportscaster
July 22 - Alan Menken, American composer
July 26 - Roger Taylor, English rock musician (Queen)
August 4 - John Riggins, American football player
August 6 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
August 7 - Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
August 12 - Mark Knopfler, British rock guitarist (Dire Straits)
August 12 - Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil
August 15 - Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
August 15 - Beverly Lynn Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747
August 20 - Philip Lynott, Irish rock musician (Thin Lizzy) (d. 1986)
August 21 - Loretta Devine, African-American actress (Woman, Thou Art Loosed)
August 23 - Shelley Long, American actress (Cheers)
August 23 - Rick Springfield, Australian rock singer and actor (Jessie's Girl)
August 25 - Martin Amis, English novelist
August 25 - Gene Simmons, American rock musician (Kiss)
August 27 - Jeff Cook, American country vocalist, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin player (Alabama)
August 28 - Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
August 31 - Richard Gere, American actor (American Gigolo)
August 31 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

September–October

September 1 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
September 3 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
September 7 - Gloria Gaynor, African-American singer (I Will Survive)
September 9 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, current President of Indonesia
September 9 - Joe Theismann, American football player
September 10 - Bill O'Reilly, American conservative radio and television commentator
September 13 - John Henry, American foreign exchange advisor, Boston Red Sox owner
September 14 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist
September 14 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
September 15 - Joe Barton, American politician
September 17 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
September 18 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
September 18 - Peter Shilton, English goalkeeper
September 19 - Twiggy Lawson, English model
September 23 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter (Born In The USA)
September 24 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
September 26 - Jane Smiley, American novelist
September 27 - Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
October 1 - Isaac Bonewits, American author and occultist
October 2 - Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
October 4 - Armand Assante, American actor
October 7 - Ronnie Mund, American television personality
October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress (Alien)
October 12 - Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan-born mercenary
October 12 - Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
October 14 - Katy Manning, British actress
October 14 - Katha Pollitt, American writer
October 17 - Bill Hudson, American musician
October 20 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
October 21 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
October 22 - Stiv Bators, American rock musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
October 22 - Arsene Wenger, French football (soccer) manager
October 26 - Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

November–December

November 2 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
November 3 - Larry Holmes, African-American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
November 5 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
November 5 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
November 6 - Nigel Havers, British actor
November 7 - Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
November 7 - Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d. 1997)
November 8 - Bonnie Raitt, American country singer and guitarist
November 13 - Terry Reid, English singer
November 19 - Ahmad Rashad, American sports host and commentator
November 15 - David Rubinstein, American pianist and composer
November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
November 25 - Kerry James O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and commentator
November 26 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
November 26 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
November 28 - Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995)
November 28 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician (Late Night With David Letterman)
November 29 - Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
November 29 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (d. 1983)
November 29 - Garry Shandling, American comedian
December 1 - Kurt Schmoke, African American Dean, Howard Law School, Mayor of Baltimore
December 3 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor (Starman)
December 4 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
December 7 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
December 8 - Mary Gordon, American writer
December 11 - Teri Garr, American actress (The Sonny and Cher Show)
December 12 - Rajinikanth, Indian actor
December 13 - Robert Lindsay, English actor
December 13 - Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player (Alabama)
December 13 - Tom Verlaine, American rock singer/guitarist (Television)
December 14 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
December 15 - Don Johnson, American actor (Miami Vice)
December 16 - Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
December 17 - Paul Rodgers, British singer (Free)
December 19 - Sebastian, Danish musician
December 22 - Maurice Gibb, British rock musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
December 22 - Robin Gibb, British rock musician (The Bee Gees)
December 24 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
December 25 - Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
December 25 - Sissy Spacek, American actress (Carrie)
December 25 - Joe Louis Walker, American musician
December 26 - José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
unknown date - Brian Calvin Hartnell, Zodiac killer survivor
unknown date - Suthep Po-ngam, Thai comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter
unknown date - Mu Tiezhu, Chinese basketball player and coach (d. 2008)

Deaths

See also Category:1949 deaths

January–June

January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
January 14 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
February 21 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
March 7 - Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (b. 1884)
March 25 - Jack Kapp, president of the U.S. branch of Decca Records (b. 1901)
March 28 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer (b. 1889)
March 30 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
March 30 - Prince Harald of Denmark (b. 1876)
April 18 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 28 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
May 9 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
May 22 - James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892)
May 22 - Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
May 27 - Robert Ripley, American creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
June 14 - Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
June 19 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian/Pakistani Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
June 25 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)

July–December

July 9 - Fritz Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
July 18 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
August 9 - George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (b. 1858)
August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, American writer (Gone With The Wind) (b. 1900)
August 17 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
August 18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
August 30 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) (b. 1864)
September 13 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
September 14 - Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German Resistance figure (b. 1901)
September 19 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
September 19 - George Shiels, Irish writer (b. 1886)
September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
October 27 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
October 27 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
November - Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b. 1872)
November 2 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
November 5 - Abdolhossein Hazhir, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1899)
December 6 - Leadbelly, African-American blues musician (b. 1888)
December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
December 16 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)

Nobel Prizes

Notes

^ "Year by Year 1949" -- History Channel International.
^ From Harding to Hiroshima by Barrington Boardman (1988), p. 14. ISBN 0934878943

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