* 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 Netherlands tried to reestablish their rule, but a bitter armed and diplomatic struggle ended in December 1949, when in the face of international pressure, the Dutch formally recognised Indonesian independence.

* 1949 – The Dutch – Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

* 1949 – Chrisye, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2007 )

During the colonial period it was known as " Dutch Timor " and was a centre of Dutch loyalists during the Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 – 1949 ).

From 1949 to 1975 it was known as " Indonesian Timor ".

Complicated by Indonesian demands, the Round Table Conference Agreements were signed in 1949 transferring Maluku to Indonesia with mechanisms for the islands to choose or opt out of the new Indonesia.

The Dutch – Indonesian Round Table Conference was held in The Hague from 23 August 1949 to 2 November 1949 between the Republic, the Netherlands, and the Dutch-created federal states.

On 27 December 1949 at Dam Palace in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana signed the papers that recognised Indonesian sovereignty over the former Dutch colony.

Major classifications done for the Indonesian ensemble, the gamelan, have been done by Jaap Kunst ( 1949 ), Martopangrawit, Poerbapangrawit, and Sumarsam ( all in 1984 ) ( Kartomi, 1990 ).

After the World War II and during Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 — 1949 ) and afterwards, kroncong was associated with patriotism, since many of Indonesian poets and patriotic songs authors uses kroncong and somewhat jazz fusion as the genre of their works.

On 27 December 1949, the palace's central hall ( Burgerzaal ) was the scene of the official ceremony for the transfer of sovereignty over Indonesia by the Netherlands ( Soevereiniteitsoverdracht ), represented by Queen Juliana and Indonesian vice-president Muhammad Hatta.

Also it was used to imply a formal claim of sovereignty by colonial powers, such as in the military actions of the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and other allies during the Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 – 1949 ) and the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ).

In December 1949, eastern Indonesia joined the Republic of the United States of Indonesia ( RIS ) established at the Dutch – Indonesian Round Table Conference of 23 August – 2 November 1949.

On 27 December 1949, the Dutch authorities finally recognized Indonesian sovereignty.

He was eventually imprisoned by the Dutch in Jakarta in 1947 and remained there until 1949, the year the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence.

While imprisoned in Bukit Duri from 1947 to 1949 for his role in the Indonesian Revolution, he wrote his first major novel The Fugitive.

Indonesian and Indo dishes became popular due to the arrival of former Dutch colonials and people of Eurasian descent in to the Netherlands, especially after the independence of Indonesia from Dutch colonial rule in 1949.

* The Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, held in the Hague in August 23 – November 2, 1949 and ended with Dutch recognition of Indonesian sovereignty

* Mustafa Abubakar ( born 1949 ), Indonesian politician

After international pressure, the Dutch acknowledged a federal Indonesian republic on 27 December 1949.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

* 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.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

* National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.

In November 1949, the logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name, National Comics Publications.

Finally, in August 1949, the National Army under Marshal Alexander Papagos launched an offensive that forced the remaining insurgents to surrender or flee across the northern border into the territory of Greece's northern Communist neighbors.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

* 1949 – Phil Miller, English guitarist ( National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole )

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.

In 1949, it entrusted 2130 remaining unclaimed pieces ( including 1001 paintings ) to the Direction des Musées de France in order to keep them under appropriate conditions of conservation until their restitution and meanwhile classified them as MNRs ( Musees Nationaux Recuperation or, in English, the National Museums of Recovered Artwork ).

Alan Turing searched for them on the Manchester Mark 1 in 1949, but the first successful identification of a Mersenne prime, M < sub > 521 </ sub >, by this means was achieved at 10: 00 P. M. on January 30, 1952 using the U. S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Lehmer, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. R. M.

* 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.

* 1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.

The National Security Agency's predecessor was the Armed Forces Security Agency ( AFSA ), created on May 20, 1949.

The league adopted the name National Basketball Association in 1949 after merging with the rival National Basketball League ( NBL ).

On August 3, 1949, the BAA agreed to merge with the NBL, creating the new National Basketball Association.

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

As early as 1949, the youth wing of the African National Congress ( ANC ) advocated the abolishment of Apartheid and suggested fighting against racial segregation by various methods.

In November 1949, during the Potsdam Conference, the United Nations granted Italy trusteeship of Italian Somaliland, but only under close supervision and on the condition — first proposed by the Somali Youth League ( SYL ) and other nascent Somalian political organizations, such as Hizbia Digil Mirifle Somali ( HDMS ) and the Somali National League ( SNL )— that Somalia achieve independence within ten years.