* 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 )

* Lou Piccone ( born 1949 ), wide receiver and kick returner who played nine seasons in the NFL for the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills.

Instrumental to the sisters ' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter ; their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen ( 1916 – 2000 ); music publishing giant Lou Levy, who died only days after Maxene, and was their manager from 1937 – 51 and was also Maxene's husband from 1941 – 49 ; and both Jack Kapp ( d. 1949 ) and his brother David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. Maxene was the mother of 2 children, Mark ( born -) & Shianne ( born ).

During the reign of the second NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Lou Thesz ( 1949 – 1956 ), the title was further unified with several more previously-competing " World " titles, such as those recognized jointly by the National Wrestling Association and the American Wrestling Alliance ( in Boston ), plus another version promoted from the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.

One-time friend Lou Harrison dissociated himself from Ruggles after the 1949 performance of Angels because of the older composer's racism, noting specifically a luncheon at Pennsylvania Station in New York at which Ruggles shouted anti-black and anti-semitic slurs.

Africa Screams was first released in 1949 and stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Among Erdman's other important works of the 1940s were Daughters of the Lonesome Isle ( 1945 ) and Ophelia ( 1946 ) with commissioned scores by John Cage on prepared and standard piano respectively, Passage ( 1946 ) with a commissioned score by Otto Janowitz, Hamadryad ( 1948 ) to Debussy's Syrinx, The Perilous Chapel ( 1949 ) and Solstice ( 1950 ), both with commissioned scores by Lou Harrison.

Much of the 1949 movie The Kid From Cleveland, in which Bob Feller, Lou Boudreau, Bill Veeck and Satchel Paige played themselves, was filmed there.

Doll Man was the lead feature of the anthology series Feature Comics through # 139 ( October, 1949 ), with Eisner writing the early stories under the pen name " William Erwin Maxwell ", and art contributed first by Lou Fine, and later by Reed Crandall.

Luigi " Lou " Macari ( born 4 June 1949 in Largs, North Ayrshire ) is a Scottish former footballer and football manager of Italian descent.

Dory Funk, Jr. came to the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) in 1968 and went on to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Gene Kiniski on February 11, 1969 in Tampa, Florida and remained NWA World Champion for the next four and a half years, which is the second-longest uninterrupted reign of any NWA World Champion ( Lou Thesz held the NWA world title from November 27, 1949, to March 15, 1956 ).

* 1949 – Martin Amis, English novelist

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

* 1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player

* Nilsson, Martin P. History of Greek Religion, 1949.

Martin Louis Amis ( 25 August 1949 ) is a British novelist.

He was born to Calvert Martin DeForest, M. D., a physician who died in 1949, and Mabelle ( Taylor ) DeForest.

In the autumn of 1949, Martin Horrell of Grand Central Station ( a radio program known for romances and light dramas ) rejected one of Serling's scripts about boxing because his mostly female listeners “ have told us in no uncertain terms that prize fight stories aren ’ t what they like most .” He then offered some advice: “ I have a feeling that the script would be far better for sight than for sound only, because in any radio presentation, the fights are not seen.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe ( October 31, 1857, Oskarshamn, Sweden – February 11, 1949, Stockholm ) was a Swedish psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work.

Although the term has come to prominence through its use by participants in the global justice / anti-globalization movement of the 1990s onwards, the word has been used for at least 60 years ; for instance Martin Buber's 1949 book ' Paths in Utopia ' includes the line ' Power abdicates only under counter-power '.

A radio series commenced in 1949, the same year Martin and Lewis were signed by Paramount producer Hal B. Wallis as comedy relief for the movie My Friend Irma.

Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).

At that performance they made a world performance premiere of Martin Boykan's String Quartet of 1949.

Martin served as Speaker of the House of Representatives on two separate occasions from 1947 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1955.

* Martin P. Nilsson, History of Greek Religion, 1949.

* Arnold Holt in Edward, My Son ( also co-wrote, His Majesty's Theatre, 1947 ; also played this role at the Martin Beck Theatre New York 1948, and in Australia and New Zealand, 1949 – 50 )

The number is named after Danish physicist Martin Knudsen ( 1871 – 1949 ).

Edith Anna Somerville ( 1858 – 1949 ) and her cousin, Violet Florence Martin ( 1862 – 1915 ) published their first novel, An Irish Cousin in 1889 under the names of Somerville and Ross.

Martin Abern ( né Martin Abramowitz ) ( 1898 – 1949 ) was a Marxist politician who was an important leader of the Communist youth movement of the 1920s as well as a founder of the American Trotskyist movement.

Translated, from the Italian, by Eden and Cedar Paul as Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy ( Hearst's International Library Co., 1915 ; Free Press, 1949 ; Dover Publications, 1959 ); republished with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset ( Crowell-Collier, 1962 ; Transaction Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0-7658-0469-7 ); translated in French by S. Jankélévitch, Les partis politiques.

Translated, from the Italian, by Eden and Cedar Paul as Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy ( Hearst's International Library Co., 1915 ; Free Press, 1949 ; Dover Publications, 1959 ); republished with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset ( Crowell-Collier, 1962 ; Transaction Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0-7658-0469-7 )

* The Martin and Lewis Show – 1949

Born on May 18, 1931 in Paterson, New Jersey, Martin studied illustration and fine art at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts between 1949 and 1951 and subsequently graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1952.