* 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 )

In later years, he served as Secretary of the Dominican Legation in Madrid ( 1932 – 1935 ), Undersecretary of the Presidency ( 1936 ), Undersecretary of Foreign Relations ( 1937 ), Extraordinary Ambassador to Colombia and Ecuador ( 1940 – 43 and 1943 – 47 ), Ambassador to Mexico ( 1947 – 49 ), Secretary of Education ( 1949 – 55 ), and Secretary of State of Foreign Relations ( 1953 – 56 ).

In 1949, part of the script for the War of the Worlds was read out over the radio in Quito, Ecuador without announcement, as if it were a major piece of breaking news.

This achievement was even more remarkable in light of the series of major earthquakes, landslides, and floods suffered by Ecuador in 1949 and 1950.

He was nominated in 1949 by Nefali Ponce, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador for the Nobel Peace Prize.

* 1949 Earthquake in Ecuador ( director cameraman )

* Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: A History ( 1949 )

Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt ( born July 29, 1949 ) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician and the 51st President of Ecuador from August 10, 1998 to January 21, 2000.

* Ecuador Amargo ( 1949 )

Rebuilding after the earthquake was largely orchestrated by Kenzo Tange, a Japanese architect and urban planner who had drawn many plans for cities and towns including that for Hiroshima in 1949.

A 1949 earthquake damaged many historic buildings beyond repair, and they were demolished.

On August 22, 1949, a magnitude 8. 1 earthquake destroyed windows and buildings swung.

See 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake.

* 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake

In 1949 in the Khait District, an earthquake occurred resulting in the Khait landslide, which killed over 30, 000 people.

* 1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquake

On 5 August 1949, the city was tragically struck by a devastating earthquake.

The Festival of Fruits and Flowers is held every year in Ambato to commemorate the anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed the city on August 5, 1949, where 6000 people lost their lives.

A new church was built of the same design but again, an earthquake claimed the structure in the Great Earthquake of 1949.

The PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties on Hawaii and in Alaska ; WCATWC was founded in 1967. International coordination is achieved through the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, established by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

The PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties in Hawaii and Alaska.

At the center of the community established by the Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Greeks who settled there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the Cascade School ( built 1894 ; demolished after a 1949 earthquake ), a public elementary school from which the neighborhood took its name.

A 5. 5 magnitude Richter scale earthquake occurred on 1 January 1949 in the Dalton-Gunning region.