* 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter

* 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Phil Garner, American baseball manager

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1949 – Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Alabama )

* 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler ( d. 1993 )

* 1949 – Alan Campbell, Irish pastor

* 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1949 – Ted Simmons, American baseball player

* 1949 – Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1949 – Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker

* 1949 – Jim Brunzell, American wrestler

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1949 – Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian astronaut

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

HK was founded by engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel in 1949 from the remnants of the Mauser company ; the company was registered in 1950.

* 1949: Alex Raymond, Rip Kirby

In the mid-1960s two of Burke's younger brothers, Alex ( born 1948 in Philadelphia ) and Laddie ( born 1949 in Philadelphia ), joined with fellow Germantown High School students, brothers Earl and Timmy Smith to form The Showstoppers, who had a couple of local hit singles in Philadelphia on Showtime Records in 1968, including a # 11 hit on the UK Singles Chart with " Ain't Nothin ' But a Houseparty " b / w " How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me " ( Heritage HE-800 ), which peaked at # 87 on the Billboard chart in 1968, which was later a discothèque hit (# 33 ) in 1971, just before the group disbanded after a series of flops.

* Alex Higgins ( 1949 – 2010 ), nicknamed Hurricane, snooker player

* Alex Spark ( 1949 – 1993 ), Scottish footballer

Aloma was again traded, this time on August 5, 1949 from the Tigers to Chicago White Sox for Alex Carrasquel.

Alex Raymond received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949 for his work on Rip Kirby, and he later served as President of the Society in 1950 and 1951.

In 1949, Sarah " Sally " Everett and her brother, Alex Brening, opened the first Runza Drive-Inn in Lincoln, Nebraska, and began serving runza sandwiches, a type of pastry filled with ground beef, onion, and cabbage from a small building near Pioneers Park.

She was born in Wallaceburg, Ontario, in 1949 and was first elected in the 2003 Ottawa election to replace outgoing councillor Alex Munter in Kanata ward.

* 1949 – Alex Groza, Kentucky

Alexander " Alex " McCormick Sturm ( June 23, 1923 – November 13, 1951 ) was an American artist, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded in 1949, the American firearm maker, Sturm, Ruger & Co. Sturm provided the start-up money and designed the Germanic heraldic eagle that is found on Ruger guns to this day.

After the purchase of a de Havilland “ Tiger Moth ” aircraft in 1949, Hartwig and Alex Friend undertook a survey of northern Australia.

Alex Miller ( born 4 July 1949 ) is a Scottish football manager and former player.

En 1949, the Aztecas recruited great players suchs as Alex Esquivel from Texas.

He transferred to Higgins, one of several new seats created in the 1949 redistribution.

The seat of Higgins was created in 1949 and held by Harold Holt CH 1949-1967, Sir John Gorton PC GCMG AC CH 1968-1975, Roger Shipton OAM 1975-1990, Peter Costello 1990-2009 and Kelly O ' Dwyer since 2009 ( all on behalf of the Liberal Party of Australia ).

Joe Higgins ( born 20 May 1949 ) is an Irish Socialist Party politician.

The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins ( 1851 – 1929 ), who was a Victorian Member of the legislative assembly ( 1894 ), president of the Carlton Football Club ( 1904 ), Australian Member of Parliament ( 1906 – 1929 ), and justice of the High Court of Australia.

In 1949, US 27 was moved to run to the west of Houghton and Higgins lakes.

* William Victor Higgins ( 1884 – 1949 ), American painter and teacher

* 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player

* June 24 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist ( d. 1949 )

** Robert Wilson Lynd, Northern Irish essayist and writer ( d. 1949 )

The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1949 – 1950.

It had been the Northern Horticultural Society's trial ground and display garden since they bought it in 1949.

In 1949 Mattei made an astonishing public announcement: the soil of the Po Valley in Northern Italy was rich in oil and methane, and Italy would solve all its energy needs using its own resources.

In 1949, Tromsø IL won its second Northern Norwegian cup.

SSSIs were originally set up by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, but the current legal framework for SSSIs is provided by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, amended in 1985 and further substantially amended in 2000 ( by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 ), in Scotland by the Nature Conservation ( Scotland ) Act 2004 and in Northern Ireland by the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1985.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Amtrak Depot, formerly the Northern Pacific Passenger Depot and later the Burlington Northern Depot, significant of the periods 1900 – 1924 and 1925 – 1949, now primarily serving as a small shop and eatery, was added in 1988.

:: Republic of China after the Northern Expedition until the Japanese invasion in 1937 of WWII, and after the war until Chiang Kai-Shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949.

Since April 1949, the only part of Ireland that retains a monarchical system is Northern Ireland ( as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ).

* George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( 1949 – 1952 ).

Following the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1949, only that part of Ireland known as Northern Ireland retained the British monarchy.

The 1938 general election was called when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain was negotiating a settlement of outstanding disputes with Éamon de Valera, whose new constitution laid claim to Northern Ireland, and the 1949 election was called when the Irish government declared itself a republic.

* Northern Ireland general election, 1949

British Railways transferred the lines in Northern Ireland to the Ulster Transport Authority in 1949.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

However, after the Chinese communists reached the Northern border of Vietnam in 1949, the conflict turned into a conventional war between two armies equipped with modern weapons supplied by the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 1949 – 50 Northern Rugby Football League season / 1950 – 51 Northern Rugby Football League season