* 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 )

* 1949 – Mark B. Rosenberg, American academic

Alan Turing searched for them on the Manchester Mark 1 in 1949, but the first successful identification of a Mersenne prime, M < sub > 521 </ sub >, by this means was achieved at 10: 00 P. M. on January 30, 1952 using the U. S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Lehmer, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. R. M.

* January 7 – Mark Essex, American spree killer ( b. 1949 )

Recent investigative research by freelance journalist Mark Opsasnick indicates that Blatty's novel was based on an actual 1949 exorcism of a young boy from Cottage City, Maryland, whom Opsasnick refers to using the pseudonyms Robbie Mannheim and Roland Doe.

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

* Joyce Sutphen ( born 1949 ) was named in 2011 as the State's Poet Laureate by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.

This was followed by the further shock of the arrival of a new brother, Mark Stanshall, born in 1949.

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 ).

* Lotus Mark II ( 1949 – 1950 ): Ford-powered trials car

The Mark I was followed by the Harvard Mark II ( 1947 or 1948 ), Mark III / ADEC ( September 1949 ), and Harvard Mark IV ( 1952 ) – all the work of Aiken.

* Mark Knopfler ( born 1949 ), English musician, co-founder of Dire Straits

* Walker, Mark German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939 – 1949 ( Cambridge, 1993 ) ISBN 0-521-43804-7

Kramer next produced Home of the Brave ( 1949 ), also directed by Mark Robson, which became an even bigger success than Champion.

Mark inherited Sudeley in 1949 after the death of his father.

Its origins date back to 1949, when a Chicago businessman named William Mark Swartz was urged by coworkers to formulate a soft drink fortified with vitamins as an alternative to sugar sodas full of empty calories.

Index registers, commonly known as a B-line in early British computers, were first used in the British Manchester Mark 1 computer, in 1949.

Mark Dennis James Dowding ( b. 1949 ), The Third Baron's only brother

However, in 1949 the old engine was bored out and compression ratio increased, for the Mark IV Minx, to 1265 cc, and power output increased by 7 % to.

A Mark IV saloon tested by The Motor magazine in 1949 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0 – in 39. 7 seconds.

Mark L. Johnson ( born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

* Adrian Gurvitz ( born 1949 ), English singer, musician and songwriter

* 1949 – Martin Amis, English novelist

* 1949 – Geoff Capes, English strongman

* 1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Stranglers )

* 1949 – James Fenton, English poet

* 1949 – Ray Shulman, English musician

* 1888 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Maurice Gibb, English musician ( The Bee Gees ) ( d. 2003 )

* 1949 – Robin Gibb, English musician ( The Bee Gees ) ( d. 2012 )

* 1949 – Cliff Williams, English bassist ( AC / DC )

* 1949 – Robert Lindsay, English actor

* 1949 – Paula Wilcox, English actress

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).

* 1949 – Joe English, American drummer ( Wings, Sea Level )

* 1949 – Lyn Paul, English pop singer and actress

Annotated edition of 11 diaries kept by the English writer, beginning in late August 1931 and ending in September 1949, a few months before his death.

* 1949 – John Turner, English cricketer ( d. 2012 )

* 1949 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Residents and Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers ) ( d. 1987 )

* 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Mogul Thrash, Family, Roxy Music, UK, and Asia )

* 1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bassist, and producer ( Dire Straits )

* 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet

* 1949 – Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate

* 1949 – Roger Meddows Taylor, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Queen and The Cross )

* 1949 – Robert Rankin, English novelist