* 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 )

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

The school was founded in 1949 under the name United Baptist Bible Training School ( UBBTS ), and served as both a secondary school and a Bible school.

* 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

The United States joined Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Netherlands in 1949 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the United States ' first " entangling " European alliance in 170 years.

Although Ireland left the Commonwealth in 1949, it is often treated as if it were a member, with references being made in legal documents to ' the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland ', and its citizens are not classified as foreign nationals, particularly in the United Kingdom.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

By 1949, the United States and British intelligence organizations were working with King Zog and the mountain men of his personal guard.

The fruit companies continued to receive favorable treatment at the hands of the Gálvez administration ; for example, United Fruit received a highly favorable twenty-five-year contract in 1949.

On May 11, 1949, Israel was admitted as a member of the United Nations .< ref >

Mr. Eban's explanations and Israel's undertakings were noted in the text of General Assembly Resolution 273 ( III ) Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations, 11 May 1949.

The United States extended official recognition after the first Israeli election, as Truman had promised, on 31 January 1949.

Israel became a member of the United Nations on 11 May 1949.

In the Report of the Technical Committee on Refugees ( Submitted to the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine in Lausanne on 7 September 1949 )- ( A / 1367 / Rev. 1 ), in paragraph 15, the estimate of the statistical expert, which the Committee believed to be as accurate as circumstances permitted, indicated that the refugees from Israel-controlled territory amounted to approximately 711, 000.

Its main allies are the United States, the other NATO countries ( Italy was one of the founding countries of the organization in 1949 ), and the European Union.

* 1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Arab politician, 4th Prime Ministers of the United Arab Emirates

* 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.

* 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.

Prime Minister Nehru talks with United Nations General Assembly President Romulo ( October 1949 ).

As Chancellor of Germany ( West Germany ) from 1949 to 1963, he led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that forged close relations with old enemies France and the United States.

In September 1949, the Philbys arrived in the United States.

After World War II Luxembourg abandoned its politics of neutrality, when it became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( 1949 ) and the United Nations.