* 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 )

Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (; ( born 18 June 1949 ) is a conservative Polish politician and lawyer.

* Jarosław Kaczyński ( born 1949 ), Polish politician, former prime minister of Poland

* Lech Kaczyński ( 1949 – 2010 ), Polish politician, former president of Poland, Jarosław Kaczyński's twin brother

* 1949 – Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland ( d. 2010 )

Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010 ) was a Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005.

The fraudulent Polish elections, held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to undemocratic communist state by 1949.

* 1949 – Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer

In 1945, he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, in 1946 he was appointed vice-president of the Mathematics department at Warsaw University, and from 1949 he was chosen to be the vice-president of Warsaw Scientific Society.

The Slovak Tatra National Park ( Tatranský národný park ; TANAP ) was founded in 1949 ( 738 km² ), and the contiguous Polish Tatra National Park ( Tatrzański Park Narodowy ) was founded in 1954 on an area of 215. 56 km².

" The fraudulent Polish elections, held on January 16, 1947, resulted in Poland's official transformation to communist state by 1949.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to a non-democratic communist state by 1949, the People's Republic of Poland.

* Zbigniew Gut ( 1949 – 2010 ), Polish footballer

After the war the factory, named first PZL No. 1 works, then from 1949 WSK-Mielec, and later WSK " PZL-Mielec ", became the biggest post-war Polish aircraft producer.

Uris ' subsequent works included: Mila 18, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising ; Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, a chronicle which ends with the lifting of the Berlin Blockade in 1949 ; Trinity, about Irish nationalism and the sequel, Redemption, covering the early 20th century and World War I ; QB VII, about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp ; and The Haj, with insights into the history of the Middle East.

From 1948 to 1949 he was a Polish consul-general and intelligence worker ( operating under the pseudonym ‘ Ranicki ') in London.

* Second Polish Republic ( 1918 – 1949 )

From 1947 to 1949 he served as Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, which no longer had diplomatic recognition from most Western European countries.

In 1949, Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky became Polish Minister of National Defence, with the additional title Marshal of Poland, and in 1952 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( deputy premier ).

Although he was accepted into the third year of Polish Studies in December 1948, Bartoszewski's arrest in 1949 and the resulting five years ' imprisonment rendered him unable to finish his studies.

* Barbara Blida ( 1949 – 2007 ), Polish politician

* Jakub Karol Parnas ( 1884 – 1949 ), Polish biochemist

There were about 80, 000 Poles living in Romania in 1939, but only about 11, 000 remained in 1949 after Romania lost Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina ( the most important Polish community lived in Czerniowce, now in Ukraine ).

Boepple was sentenced to death by a Polish court and hanged on December 14, 1949.

The Orchestra of Moldovan Folk Music and Dance was founded in 1949 ; the orchestra plays Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German music.

When his last legal appeal had failed he jumped bail and secretly boarded the Polish liner MS Batory bound for London in May 1949.

Eisler, who was supposed by many to be the covert leader and director of the Communist Party in America during and after the Second World War, became the centre of a diplomatic incident in 1949 when, having stowed away on a Polish ship out of New York, he was forcibly removed and arrested in Southampton.

After World War II, around 1, 500 Poles and 1, 900 Polish Jews, mostly former soldiers, settled in Chile and in 1949 the Association of Poles in Chile was founded.