* 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 )

* 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet ( d. 1949 )

This gave recognition to the Hungarian Methodist Church and to two other Methodist-derived denominations – the Salvation Army, which was banned in Hungary in 1949 but returned in 1990, and currently has four congregations, and the Church of the Nazarene, which entered Hungary in 1996 – but not to the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship.

In 1949, the ÁVH arrested Hungarian Communist Party member László Rajk, who was then tried and executed for nationalism and Titoism in a show trial that signified to the international communist movement that Yugoslavia was now a threat.

The CPUSA reestablished a youth organization in 1949 as the Labor Youth League, which dissolved in the dissention following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

* Second Hungarian Republic ( 1946 – 1949 )

* Ádám Fischer ( born 1949 ), Hungarian conductor

* Gáspár Nagy ( 1949 – 2007 ), Hungarian poet and writer

He was elected a corresponding member ( 1949 ), full member ( 1956 ) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Bertalan Farkas ( born August 2, 1949 ) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space.

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences () was created in 1949, is under supervision of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1951.

László Rajk ( March 8, 1909 Székelyudvarhely – October 15, 1949 Budapest ) was a Hungarian Communist ; politician, former Minister of Interior and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He was the first Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council, which was established on 23 August 1949, as a replacement for the post of the President, in accordance with the new constitution proclaimed in 1949.

However the club ’ s golden age really began in 1949 when it was taken over by the Hungarian Ministry of Defence and it became the Hungarian Army team.

Honvéd itself also benefited, winning the Hungarian League in 1949 – 50, 1950, 1952, 1954, and 1955.

* Screenplaywriters: Lajos Bíró one nomination ( 1929 ), Géza Herczeg one win ( first Hungarian to get an Academy Award ), Emeric Pressburger ( UK ) 4 nominations ( 3 x 1943, 1949 ) / one win ( 1943 ) ( most nomineed Hungarian in screenplay ), Hans Szekely ( as John S. Toldy ) one win, Frank Partos one nomination ( 1948 ), André de Toth one nomination ( 1950 ), Melchior Lengyel one nomination ( 40 ), Robert Pirosh ( US-born ) one win ( 1949 ) and Frank Darabont 2 nominations ( 1994, 99 ).

* 1949: The PDP joined the left-wing non-Marxist Hungarian Radical Party.

* James Atlas ( born 1949 ), is a founding editor of the Lipper / Viking Penguin Lives Series

He married eight times: Ruth Boyd ( 1940 – 1947 ), dancer Marion Bell ( 1947 – 1949 ), Nancy Olson ( 1950 – 1957 ), lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo ( 1957 – 1965 ), editor Karen Gunderson ( 1966 – 1974 ), Sandra Payne ( 1974 – 1976 ), Nina Bushkin ( 1977 – 1981 ) and Liz Robertson ( 1981 – 1986 death ).

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

* 1949 – Anna Wintour, English-born American magazine editor

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented ; it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

In 1949, Morath and Haas were invited by Robert Capa to join the newly founded Magnum Photos in Paris, where she started as an editor.

It was penned by a former editor Vermont C. Royster, whose Christmas article " In Hoc Anno Domini ", has appeared every December 25 since 1949.

* Blanche Sewell ( 1898 – 1949 ), editor

From 1949 – 1961 he was the managing editor and editor in chief, until his retirement in 1970.

* Edward K. Thompson ( managing editor 1949 – 1961 ; editor in chief 1961 – 1970 )

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented, and it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

He graduated in 1949, and returned to Jamaica to serve as an editor and columnist for the newspaper Public Opinion.

The Paisley branch of the SDF introduced him to John Ross Campbell, who would also become a prominent British Communist and the editor of the Daily Worker from 1949 until 1959.

Douglas served as the book review editor of The Miami Herald from 1942 to 1949, and as editor for the University of Miami Press from 1960 to 1963.

The series was adapted into a 1949 novel by Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader's Digest.

His firm knowledge of the German language enabled him to become chief interpreter for the US occupation forces in Western Germany, until he took a position as chief editor of the Neue Zeitung newspaper in Frankfurt in 1949.

She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got a break in 1949 when she met Mechthild Nawiasky, an Observer picture editor, who asked her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

Page was succeeded by L. F. Salzman, who remained general editor until 1949.

His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.

He was founding editor ( with J. Francis McComas ) of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1949 to 1958, and was seminal in attempting to make literary quality an important aspect of science fiction.

He was F & SF's art editor from 1949 until 1958.