* 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 )

* H. Dale Jackson, Baptist minister and ethicist ; lived in Joplin with his wife when they were newly married in 1949

Historian Dale Morgan wrote in 1949: " An interesting feature of the Church's doctrine is that it discriminates in no way against ... members of other racial groups, who are fully admitted to all the privileges of the priesthood.

George was married three times: to Jeanne Schnyder in 1932, Monique Panchaud de Bottens in 1949, and Helen Mary Dale.

The building was returned to the MRC in autumn 1949 but Sir Henry Dale had retired in 1942 and so was never director on the new site, that job falling to his successor Sir Charles Harington.

* Dale Mitchell ( 640, 1949 )

* Dale Mitchell ( 203, 1949 )

* Dale Mitchell ( 23, 1949 )

* Dale Mitchell ( 161, 1949 )

* Dale Mitchell ( 58. 2, 1949 )

* 1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

* 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician

* 1949 – Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and politician

* 1949 – Jacques Duchesneau, Canadian civil servant and Chief of Police

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

* 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1949 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1872 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – André Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

In that same year, St-Laurent negotiated the British North America ( No. 2 ) Act, 1949 with Britain which ' partially patriated ' the Canadian Constitution, most significantly giving the Canadian Parliament the authority to amend portions of the constitution.

* 1949 – Bill Wallace, Canadian bassist ( The Guess Who )

* 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor

* 1949 – Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer

* 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian musician ( April Wine and Mashmakhan )

* 1949 – Daniel Lavoie, Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.

* 1949 – Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1949 – David Foster, Canadian musician and composer