* 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 – 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 )

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( translated as The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II excerpt and text search vol.

* Philippe Mora ( born 1949 ), French-born Australian film director

Philippe Patrick Starck ( born January 18, 1949, Paris ) is a well-known French product designer.

His first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, known as Philippe de Villiers (), born on 25 March 1949, is a French politician.

** Philippe Petit ( born 1949 ), French acrobat

Philippe Petit (; born 13 August 1949 ) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, on 7 August 1974.

Philippe Mora ( born 1949 ) is a French-born Australian film director.

Philippe Djian ( born June 6, 1949 in Paris ) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.

* Philippe Petit ( 1949 -), highwire artist

By 1949, Brel became president of La Franche Cordée, and produced a number of benefit plays for the organization, including Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince.

* Jean Petit ( born 1949 ), former French football midfielder

George Willig ( born June 11, 1949 ) ( aka " the human fly " or " the spiderman ") is a mountain-climber from Queens, New York, United States, who climbed the South Tower ( 2 WTC ) of the World Trade Center on 26 May 1977, about 2½ years after tightrope walker Phillippe Petit walked between the tops of the two towers.

* Carmen ( 1949 ballet ), a ballet by Roland Petit to the Bizet music

Joffrey studied ballet and modern dance in New York City and made his debut in 1949 with the French choreographer Roland Petit and his Ballet de l ' Opéra National de Paris.

* 1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist ( d. 1949 )

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

* 1949 – Véronique Sanson, French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

In 1949 during the French colonial rule, the law required the main ethnic groups, the Afar and the Somali to participate as separate electorates.

* During 1949, the French Post Office issued a series of stamps with his portrait.

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1879 – Othon Friesz, French artist ( d. 1949 )

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

In 1949, the three western occupation zones ( American, British, and French ) were combined into the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, West Germany ).

* 1949 – Yves Duteil, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer ( d. 1949 )

In 1949, Cousteau left the French Navy.

* 1949 – Alain Chamfort, French singer

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search ; Original French text

Strange Defeat ; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 ( London: Oxford University Press, 1949 ) Original French text ; excerpt and text search

Support for dismantling was by this time coming predominantly from the French, and the Petersberg Agreement of November 1949 reduced the levels vastly, though dismantling of minor factories continued until 1951.

* 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress

As part of this policy, limits were placed on production levels, and industries in the Saar were dismantled just as in the Ruhr, although mostly in the period prior to its detachment ( see also the 1949 letter from the UK Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, urging a reconsideration of the dismantling policy ).

Influenced by the published journals of the French writer Jules Renard, which Maugham had often enjoyed for their conscientiousness, wisdom and wit, Maugham published selections from his own journals under the title A Writer's Notebook in 1949.

The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.

** Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist ( d. 1949 )