* 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 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev ( Kyrgyz: Курманбек Сали уулу Бакиев ( Kurmanbek Sali Uulu Bakiev ), Russian: Курманбек Салиевич Бакиев ; born 1 August 1949 ) is a politician who served as the second President of Kyrgyzstan, from 2005 to 2010.

* Adrian Bailey ( born 1949 ), British Labour Co-operative politician

* 1949 – Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek politician

* 1949 – Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician

* 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician

* 1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American politician

* 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician

* 1949 – Mitch Daniels, American politician, governor of Indiana

* 1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician

* 1949 – Randy Neugebauer, American politician

* 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician

* 1949 – Soumaïla Cissé, Malian politician

* 1949 – Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and politician

* 1892 – James Forrestal, American politician, Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Yvon Vallières, French-Canadian politician

Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

* 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German politician

* 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland

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

* 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician

* 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician ( b. 1949 )

* 1949 – Bo Xilai, Chinese politician