* 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 )

Changes by August Bohlin ( 1877 – 1949 ) in 1929 / 1930 made the nyckelharpa a chromatic instrument with a straight bow, making it a more violin-like and no longer a bourdon instrument.

Changes in sponsorship led to a change in name to Zentra Wismut Aue in 1949 and then simply to SC Wismut Aue in 1951.

* Austin Idol, the ring name of American professional wrestler Dennis McCord ( born 1949 )

The school was founded in 1949 under the name United Baptist Bible Training School ( UBBTS ), and served as both a secondary school and a Bible school.

The element berkelium was synthesized and named in 1949, recognizing the University, thus also placing the city's name in the list of elements.

He was never allowed back into Nissan, which returned to passenger car manufacture in 1947 and to its original name of Nissan Motor Company Ltd. in 1949.

In November 1949, the logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name, National Comics Publications.

Walsh had no great name recognition during his half-century as a working director, but his noirs White Heat ( 1949 ) and The Enforcer ( 1951 ) had A-list stars and are seen as important examples of the cycle.

This name was officially adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1949, becoming the second element after gallium to be named after France.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

He chose the name lutecium for the new element but in 1949 the spelling of element 71 was changed to lutetium.

Lois McMaster Bujold ( Last name pronounced phonetically in American English as " Bu-Jold "; born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio ) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.

In 1969 a group of female manga artists ( later called the Year 24 Group, also known as Magnificent 24s ) made their shōjo manga debut (" year 24 " comes from the Japanese name for the year 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists ).

* 1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time.

On September 11, 1941 Bockmühl and Ehrhart filed an application for a patent for a synthetic substance they called Hoechst 10820 or polamidon ( a name still in regular use in Germany ) and whose structure had only slight relation to morphine or the opiate alkaloids ( Bockmühl and Ehrhart, 1949 ).

The name of the element was officially adopted as niobium in 1949.

To end this confusion, the name niobium was chosen for element 41 at the 15th Conference of the Union of Chemistry in Amsterdam in 1949.

NIST has been publishing various forms of what is now the " Handbook 44 " since 1918 and began publication under the current name in 1949.

The league adopted the name National Basketball Association in 1949 after merging with the rival National Basketball League ( NBL ).

A more stable isotope (< sup > 231 </ sup > Pa ) of protactinium was discovered in 1917 / 18 by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, and they choose the name proto-actinium, but then the IUPAC named it finally protactinium in 1949 and confirmed Hahn and Meitner as discoverers.

Siam is an exonym that was used as the name of Thailand before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949 ; see History of Thailand.

* December 16 – Siam joins the United Nations ( changes name to Thailand in 1949 ).

** Providence Grays ( minor league ), the name of several minor league baseball teams between 1886 and 1949

A New Zealand ham, George H. Pritchard ( ZL3MH ), brought the design to attention in 1949 ( based on ideas of W5LHI and W0GZR ), hence the " ZL " part of the name given the 3MH beam by Fred C. Judd ( G2BCX ), who further developed variants

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of the 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, a role he reprised in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries.

Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.