* 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 )

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress

* 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter ( d. 1949 )

( 1951 ) Report of human remains and materials recovered from the River Axe in the Great Cave of Wookey Hole during diving operations from October 1947 to Jan. 1949.

* June 8 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter ( d. 1949 )

Afterwards the 10-piece line-up was reduced to four ; Ernst Jansz ( May 24, 1948 ; keyboards, sax, percussion ), Jan Hendriks ( September 20, 1949 ; guitar ), Carel Copier ( drums ) and Piet Dekker ( bass ).

The former town hall was built in 1911 after a design by Jan Stuyt and was raised with an additional floor in 1949.

* 1948 – 1949 Jan Kapusta

Also various premiums were offered for new subscribers, including a mini-poster attributed to Walt Kelly advertised on the back cover of WDC & S # 100 ( Jan. 1949 ).

In 1949 he joined Christian Dotremont, Karel Appel, Constant, Jan Nieuwenhuys and Asger Jorn to form the art group Cobra.

Marvel Comics was rechristened Marvel Mystery Comics with issue # 2 ( Dec. 1939 ) — the magazine would continue under that title through # 92 ( June 1949 ) before becoming Marvel Tales through # 159 ( Aug. 1957 ) — and Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics # 1 ( Jan. 1940 ), Mystic Comics # 1 ( March 1940 ), Red Raven Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1940 ), The Human Torch # 2 ( premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven ), and Captain America Comics # 1 ( March 1941 ).

Prelog had a son Jan born in 1949 with Kamila Vitak whom he married in 1933.

Between 1947 and 1949, the German typographer Jan Tschichold redesigned 500 Penguin books, and left Penguin with a set of influential rules of design principles brought together as the Penguin Composition Rules, a four page booklet of typographic instructions for editors and compositors.

Jan Mühlstein ( born 3 July 1949 in Most, Czechoslovakia ) is a journalist, German Jewish activist and the former chair of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany.

# Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot ( 26 February 1919 – 20 April 1963 ) who was thrice married ; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting ( 9 Sep 1917-k. a. Middle East Jan 1943 ), by whom she had one daughter Davina ( 1940 – 1976 ); m. 2nd 24 Feb 1945 ( annulled 1949 ) David Frederick Hew Dunn ( b. 1917 ); m. 3rd 22 Dec 1949 Ralph Alexander Rubens ( died 1995 ) by whom she had one daughter Alexandra ( b. 1950 ).

The most spectacular win of the 1949 – 50 season came on Jan. 5, 1950, when they defeated George Mikan and the Minneapolis Lakers 85 – 82 in front of a standing-room-only crowd of 3, 800 fans at the Sheboygan Municipal Auditorium and Armory.

* " Clemency ", ( Jan. 17, 1949 ), Time magazine

* Jan Mühlstein ( born 1949 ), politician

Karin Jan Smithers ( born July 3, 1949 ) is an American television and film actress best known for playing Bailey Quarters on the television series WKRP in Cincinnati.

Jan Laverty Jones ( born March 16, 1949 ) is an American businesswoman and politician.

He then spent one year at the Jan Hofmeyer School of Social Work before enrolling in Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg but was expelled from South Africa after only a year, in 1949, following the rise of the Apartheid government.

* Miroslav Bartoš ( Jan 1949 – Oct 49 )

* Jan Kemp ( 1949 – 2008 ), American academic who exposed the bias in passing college football players