* 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 – 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 )

* 1949 – Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist ( b. 1882 )

* Clarence Charles Stoughton ( 1949 – 1963 )

The chapel was physically moved to Clarence in 1948, dedicated in 1949, bricked during the 1950s, and still serves as a worship center, having undergone complete remodeling in 2002.

Clarence Hailey Long, the original inspiration for the Marlboro Man advertising campaign stemming from a 1949 issue of LIFE magazine, was born in Paducah in 1910.

" In fact, the first Zydeco-ish recording was Clarence Garlow's hit ' Bon Ton Roula ,' issued in 1949 on the Macys label.

On September 17, 1949, the Clarence E. Hancock Airport opened to the public using a renovated machine shop as a terminal, and replaced the airport at Amboy.

On March 31, 1949, the people of Boe celebrated when Bethel Enproe Adam was born to parents Kenye and Clarence Adam.

* Clarence Skinner ( minister ) ( 1881 – 1949 ), Universalist minister

The other stone market building between York and Clarence Streets survived several fires and renovations, but was demolished in 1949.

Burnett's inspiration for the exceedingly masculine " Marlboro Man " icon came in 1949 from an issue of LIFE magazine, where the photograph ( shot by Leonard McCombe ) and story of Texas cowboy Clarence Hailey Long caught his attention.

Intruder in the Dust was turned into an MGM film of the same name directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $ 50, 000 to Faulkner.

In 1949, Smith fathered a child, Clarence Jowers, with Willieen Jowers.

Under head coach Clarence " Biggie " Munn Thrower became the first black quarterback to play in the Big Ten Conference in 1950 in his first year of varsity eligibility ( NCAA rules dictated no freshman on varsity preventing Thrower, who was a freshman in 1949, to play ) although during the first two years of his varsity career, he had only attempted 14 passes.

Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins ( 1888 – 1949 ) was an American author of horror and mystery fiction.

* 1949 – Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor

Dyson is best known for demonstrating in 1949 the equivalence of the formulations of quantum electrodynamics that existed by that time – Richard Feynman's diagrams, on the one hand, and, on the other, the operator method developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

In January 1949, in a very weak condition, he set off for a sanatorium in Gloucestershire, escorted by Richard Rees.

* 1949 – Richard Russo, American novelist

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

* 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States

Richard Hell ( born Richard Lester Meyers ; October 2, 1949 ) is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.

* June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer ( d. 1949 )

He proposed a theoretical explanation of the superfluid properties of liquid helium in 1949 ; two years later the physicist Richard Feynman independently proposed the same theory.

* A Passionate Prodigality: Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949 – 1962 ( 1975 ) edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz

It was used for the last time in West Germany in 1949 ( in the execution of Richard Schuh ) and in East Germany in 1966 ( in the execution of Horst Fischer ).

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.

According to chief judge Richard May from the United Kingdom, the ICTY issued an indictment against Arkan on 30 September 1997 for war crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva convention of 1949 for customs and traditions of war.

Richard Georg Strauss ( 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949 ) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

Richard Strauss died at the age of 85 on 8 September 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

No film version for cinema release has ever been made, however, the 1949 film Train of Events includes a sub-plot featuring an amateur dramatics society performing the last scenes of Richard II.

Nicholas Richard ' Nick ' Ainger ( born 24 October 1949 ) is a British politician.

* Fletcher Pratt, " Richard M. Johnson: Rumpsey-Dumpsey ", Eleven Generals ; Studies in American Command, New York ; William Sloane Assoc., 1949, pp. 81 – 97.

* Richard A. Merkt ( born 1949 ) represents the 25th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

* Big Jack ( 1949 ) with Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, and Edward Arnold

Soman was discovered by Richard Kuhn in Germany in 1944, and represented the last wartime nerve agent discovery ( GF was not found until 1949 ).

Richard Dix ( July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949 ) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film.