* 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 )

She continued working after 1947, and married actor Guy Madison in 1949, but by 1950 it was well known that she had become a victim of alcoholism, and Paramount did not renew her contract.

* Paper Tape Archive: Guy Lombardo at Hotel Roosevelt ( 1949 )

* Guy Rhys John Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst ( b. 1949 )

Guy de Boisson, President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, speaks at the opening of the 2nd World Festival of Youth and Students ( Budapest, 1949 )

* Le Poids net, éditions GLM ( Guy Levis Mano ), 1949

Guy Joseph Jean Charron ( born January 24, 1949 in Verdun, Quebec ) is a former professional ice hockey centre.

* John Guy ( historian ) ( born 1949 ), British historian

* Ray Guy ( born 1949 ), American football player

* Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill ( London, 17 December 1921 – 2000 ); baptised 17 January 1922 at St Margaret's Westminster ; married 14 May 1943 in Westminster Edwin Fariman Russell ( born 15 July 1914 ) and had four children: Serena Mary Churchill Russell ( born 1944 ), Consuelo Sarah Russell ( born 1946 ), Alexandra Brenda Russell ( born 1949 ), and Jacqueline Russell ( born 1958 ); divorced 7 October 1966 in Reno, United States ; married secondly 11 November 1966 Guy Burgos with no issue ; divorced in 1967 in Mexico ; married thirdly 1967 in Philadelphia Theo Roubanis with no issue

John Guy ( born 1949 in Warragul, Australia ) is a British historian and biographer.

Whirlpool ( 1949 ) is a thriller film noir directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht ( under the blacklist pseudonym Lester Barstow ) and Andrew Solt, adapted from Guy Endore's novel Methinks the Lady.

DeFore's film appearances include: The Male Animal ( 1942 ), The Human Comedy ( uncredited, 1943 ), A Guy Named Joe ( 1943 ), Thirty Seconds over Tokyo ( 1944 ), The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), You Came Along ( 1945 ), It Happened on 5th Avenue ( 1947 ), Ramrod ( 1947 ), Romance on the High Seas ( 1948 ), My Friend Irma ( 1949 ), Too Late for Tears ( 1949 ), Dark City ( 1950 ), Southside 1-1000 ( 1950 ), The Guy Who Came Back ( 1951 ), A Girl in Every Port ( 1952 ), Jumping Jacks ( 1952 ), Battle Hymn ( 1957 ), A Time to Love and a Time to Die ( 1958 ), and The Facts of Life ( 1960 ).

The most popular version of the song, recorded by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, was made on November 27 ( some sources give November 28 ), 1949.

Before World War II in 1939 the allocation consisted of ST, STL & LTs, but during the war it was the first garage to receive utility Guy Arabs ( G ), and later in 1949 London's first 8 ft wide buses.

Guy Reide, Old Baldy's Scout Executive ( 1949 to 1966 ) in 1965 had the vision and work with William Hitchcock to have the Ranch turned into a Scout Camp.

* Guy Lombardo's Orchestra ( recorded January 24, 1949 ; released by Decca Records as catalog number 24572, with the flip side “ Here I'll Stay ”)

* Bechor, Guy, The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law ( 1932 to 1949 ), Brill, ( 2007 ), ISBN 90-04-15878-2, ISSN: 1384-1130.

* 1949 – Yvon Vallières, French-Canadian politician

Félix d ' Herelle ( April 25, 1873 – February 22, 1949 ) was a French-Canadian microbiologist, the co-discoverer of bacteriophages ( viruses that infect bacteria ) and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy.

" In 1949, still retaining his soprano, he recorded a bluesy solo rendering of Hank Snow's " My Two Timin ' Woman " on a wire recorder borrowed by a friend who worked in a music shop.

Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

On Bartholomew's 1949 tresillo-based " Oh Cubanas " we clearly hear an attempt to blend African American and Afro-Cuban music.

In 1949, he published a thesis on the electronic music and speech synthesis from the viewpoint of sound synthesis, and in 1951, he joined to the successful proposal of establishment of WDR Cologne Studio for Electronic Music.

* Don Cook ( born May 25, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas ) is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music.

The 1930s / 40s British film, radio and music hall comedian Will Hay ( 1888 – 1949 ) lived at 7 Eddystone Road and later 40 Merritt Road, Crofton Park as a child in the late 1890s.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

He began to record music for HMV India and worked as a music director for All India Radio ( AIR ), New Delhi, from February 1949 to January 1956.

As an example of open-mindedness and use of the available sources, singer and composer Eliseo Parra ( b 1949 ) can afford to record music from the Basque country and from Castile.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

During the summers of 1949 and 1950 he taught in the new music summer school classes at Darmstadt.

During his years in the United States, Walter worked with many famous American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic ( where he was musical adviser from 1947 to 1949, but declined an offer to be music director ), and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

At first he was a pop singer, launching his recording career on the Roost label in 1949, but later he developed a keen interest in folk music, learning material through the Library of Congress ' American folk songs archives.

Xenakis's compositions from 1949 – 52 were mostly inspired by Greek folk melodies, as well as Bartók, Ravel, and others ; after studying with Messiaen, he discovered serialism and gained a deep understanding of contemporary music ( Messiaen's other pupils at the time included, for example, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Jean Barraqué ).

The last musical period is the improvised harmonium music which often followed the dinners Gurdjieff held in his Paris apartment during the Occupation and immediate post-war years, to his death in 1949.

Instrumental to the sisters ' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter ; their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen ( 1916 – 2000 ); music publishing giant Lou Levy, who died only days after Maxene, and was their manager from 1937 – 51 and was also Maxene's husband from 1941 – 49 ; and both Jack Kapp ( d. 1949 ) and his brother David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. Maxene was the mother of 2 children, Mark ( born -) & Shianne ( born ).

In 1949, he released a cover of " Lovesick Blues ," which carried him into the mainstream of music.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

Trevor Charles Horn, CBE ( born 15 July 1949 ) is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer.

* Ian Copeland ( 1949 – 2006 ), music promoter