* 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 )

* 1949 – Moira Stuart, English journalist

She met her future husband, the Irishman Ian Stuart, in 1948, and in 1949 the two went to Ireland together.

In June 1949, the House Committee on Armed Services launched an investigation into charges, emanating unofficially from Navy sources, of malfeasance in office against Secretary Johnson and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington.

Moira Clare Ruby Stuart OBE ( born 2 September 1949 ) is a British journalist, who was the first African-Caribbean female newsreader on British television.

Moira Stuart was born in the Royal Free Hospital, London, on 2 September 1949, to African-Caribbean parents.

Andrew Stuart MacKinlay ( born 24 April 1949 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Thurrock from 1992 until he stepped down at the 2010 general election.

The architect for the pier construction was James Stuart Campbell McEwan-Brown ( 1870 – 1949 ).

* James William Stuart Whitemore Sempill, 21st Lord Sempill ( b. 1949 )

After leading negotiations to establish full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1979, Woodcock was appointed the first United States ambassador to the PRC, and the first ambassador to mainland China since 1949, when Leighton Stuart served as ambassador to the Republic of China.

* Four Stuart Portraits ( 1949 )

Despite this claim, Moore married three other men after 1949 ; including her eleven year marriage to Stuart Cramer with whom she has two children.

Stuart Varney ( born July 7, 1949 in Derby, Derbyshire, England ) is a British-American economic journalist, and as of 2011, working for the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.

James Stuart Mackie ( March 12, 1860 – January 21, 1949 ) was a Canadian businessman and politician.

The Korgis are a British pop band, originally composed of singer / bassist James Warren ( born 25 August 1951, Bristol ) and singer / guitarist / keyboardist Andy Davis ( born Andrew Cresswell-Davis 10 August 1949 ), both former members of 1970s band Stackridge, along with unofficial members violinist Stuart Gordon and keyboardist Phil Harrison.

James Stuart Pearson ( born 21 June 1949 in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire ) is an English former football player.

* Sir Stuart Rose ( born 1949 ), Chief Executive, Marks & Spencer

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1936 to 1949 as a representative of the Social Credit League, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken and Stuart Garson.

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 to 1949, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.

* James Stuart Mackie ( 1860 – 1949 ), Canadian businessman and politician

Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film directed by Stuart Heisler from a story by Steve Fisher, adapted by Walter Doniger and starring Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly and Sessue Hayakawa.

After Marshall's departure from China in January 1947, he led the mediation efforts that changed from all-out support of the Nationalist government to mediating the coalition government, to negotiating an understanding with the Communist party When the Nationalist government fled Nanjing, and Communist forces entered the city in April 1949, Stuart maintained the U. S. Embassy in Nanjing.

On August 2, 1949, because all the efforts of U. S. imperialism to obstruct the victory of the Chinese people's revolution had completely failed, Leighton Stuart had to leave China quietly.

As a result, Stuart was recalled to the U. S. on August 2, 1949, and formally resigned as Ambassador on November 28, 1952.