* 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 )

** Judith Resnik, American astronaut ( b. 1949 )

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant ( born 22 March 1949 ) is a French actress.

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

Johnson moved with Richard Lippold to New York City by early 1949, rejoining Cage and Cunningham and befriending, within the next couple of years, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Ad Reinhardt, Stanley Vanderbeek, Norman Solomon, Lucy Lippard, Sonja Sekula, Carolyn Brown and Earle Brown, Judith Malina, Diane Di Prima, Julian Beck, Remy Charlip, James Waring, and innumerable others.

Judith Arlene Resnik ( April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L.

Judith Arlene Resnik was born in 1949 to Sara and Marvin, an optometrist, in Akron, Ohio ; her brother Charles was born four years later.

* Judith ( ballet ), a 1949 ballet by William Schuman

Judith Ellen Light ( born February 9, 1949 ) is an American actress.

** Judith Resnik ( b. 1949 )

They had three daughters: Catherine ( born 1949 ), Judith ( born 1953 ) and Mary Anne ( born 1955 ).

Judith Theresa Ward ( née Judith Minna Ward, 10 January 1949 ) is a British woman known for being a victim of unsafe convictions in 1974 for the bombing of Euston Station in 1973, and of the National Defence College and M62 coach bombings in 1974.

* Judith Resnik ( 1949 – 1986 ), American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

from ' 291, 1984 ; Charles Sheeler: Vintage Photographs, 1985 ; Irving Penn: 48 Portraits from 1948, 1992 ; Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the Collection of Georgia O ' Keeffe, 1993 ; Robert Frank: Flower is ... Paris, 1949 – 1951, 1997 ; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Early Experiments, 1922 – 1932, 1997 ; Cropping and Picture Making, 1999 ; Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs, 1999 ; Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Heads, 2001 ; David Byrne, 2003 ; Andy Warhol: Red Books, 2004 ; Frederick Sommer: Frederick Sommer at 100, 2005 ; Irving Penn: Underfoot, 2005 ; Emmet Gowin: Mariposas Nocturnas, Edith in Panama, 2005 ; Richard Misrach: Chronologies, 2006 ; Harry Callahan: Nature, 2007 ; Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden-Photographs of Central Park, 2007 ; Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, August Sander, 2008 ; Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague, 2008 ; Judith Joy Ross: Protest the War, 2008 ; Richard Benson: Found Views and Chosen Colors, 2008.

* Megan McTavish ( b. 1949 ), soap opera writer ; Daytime Emmy winner ( All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, General Hospital )

The coal fired Sunbury power plant was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Power & Light company in 1949.

* Red Light ( 1949 )

The Light on the Hill speech was first delivered to the ALP Conference by Chifley in 1949.

A branch was built from Dumfries to Moniaive, the Cairn Valley Light Railway, but this closed in 1949.

* Red Light ( 1949 ) with Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, and Raymond Burr

In 1948 and 1949, the Bristol Motor Cycle and Light Car Club hosted motor races on a circuit, but due to planning and noise issues moved in 1950 to a site that became known as Castle Combe Circuit.

The original radio version started on the BBC Light Programme from 18 February to 30 September 1949 but moved to Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s.

* The Lost World ( 1949 ; BBC Light Programme radio serial )

She died in obscurity in 1949 and any hopes of reviving her defunct Universal Light Church died with her.

In 1949 impresario Edwin Lester hired Robert Wright and George Forrest to adapt Strauss's German lyrics and music for a production at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.

* Red Light ( 1949 )

In 1949, 48 ex-British Army Mark III 25-pounders were acquired by the Irish Defence Forces and were in service with the Reserves until 2009, having been replaced in the Army by the 105 mm Light Gun in 1981.

The tramway up the cliffs was never built, and the ‘ new road ’ was only ever used as a track for vehicular traffic However, the Dover, St. Margaret ’ s and Martin Mill Light Railway Company sought, and was granted, repeated extensions of time for the Order, up to 1949 ; the Company was not wound up until 1952.

* The Barsi Light Railway used an F class of thirteen locomotives, ten built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company between 1926 and 1929, and three built by Hunslet Engine Company in 1949.

The Billy Cotton Band Show was a popular Sunday lunchtime radio programme on the BBC Light Programme from 1949 to 1968.

Jerry verDorn ( born November 23, 1949 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as Ross Marler on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light.

* William Price Drury ( 1861 – 1949 ), British Royal Marine Light Infantry officer, novelist and playwright

The posthumous " Edition of The Last Hand " of the current " In the Light of Truth " in three volumes, containing 168 lectures ( including lectures published in separate books and in individual form after 1931 ), was first published in 1949 under the pen name Abd-ru-shin, and is currently available from the Grail Foundation.

# The League of Light ( 1949 )

* 34 Light Anti-Air Regiment ( 1949 – 52 ; 61-63 )

Alton wrote Painting with Light ( 1949 ), one of the first books written by a working studio cinematographer.

* A New Light on Pope ( 1949 )