* 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 )

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

* 2011 – Christopher Hitchens, Prolific Columnist ( b. 1949 )

* 1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright

* 1994 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian ( b. 1949 )

* December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer ( b. 1949 )

* Christopher Hitchens ( 1949 – 2011 ), author and journalist

Richard Christopher Wakeman ( born 18 May 1949 ) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes.

Original drafts for the account of the rulers of South-kingdom are not preserved, and in the earliest extant manuscript, ascribed by Christopher Tolkien to 1949 – 50, many events of the final history are already present.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

Christopher Ferdinand Durang ( born January 2, 1949 ) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to pursue a writing career, beginning with The Winter Swan ( Dennis Dobson, 1949 ) under the name Christopher Youd.

In 1949 bull sperm was cryopreserved for the first time by a team of scientists led by Christopher Polge ( 1926 – 2006 ).

Christopher Eric Hitchens ( 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 ) was a British American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades.

Christopher " Chris " Langham ( born 14 April 1949 ) is an English writer, actor and comedian.

* Christopher Hitchens ( 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 ) an English American author and journalist

* Christopher Columbus ( 1949 )

* Warren Christopher ( 1949 ), 63rd U. S. Secretary of State

* Christopher Patrick Balfour, 5th Baron Kinross ( b. 1949 )

* Christopher John Norton, 3rd Baron Rathcreedan ( b. 1949 )

Vice Admiral Christopher Angus ( Chris ) Ritchie AO ( born 16 January 1949 ) is a retired Vice Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy, and was Chief of Navy from 2002 to 2005.

Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC ( born 9 January 1942 ), succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949.

* 1949: The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry, with Richard Burton in a supporting role

Christopher Charles Collins ( August 30, 1949 – June 12, 1994 ), also known as Chris Latta, was an American actor, voice artist and comedian, perhaps best known as the voice of Cobra Commander on the G. I.

* Christopher Columbus ( 1949 )