* 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 )

These factors – combined with a war for players between the two leagues that raised salaries and ate into owners ' profits – ultimately led to the dissolution of the AAFC and the merger of three of its teams, including the Browns, into the NFL in 1949.

In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merger.

Three colleges merged with IIT after the 1940 Armor / Lewis merger: Institute of Design in 1949, Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1969, and Midwest College of Engineering in 1986.

The men responsible for the merger were Karl Ludvig Lundberg and Josef Sachs ( 1872 – 1949 ), who wanted to establish a department store that would offer the same level of service as the stores in Paris or London.

It was founded in 1949 as the merger of two major actuarial organizations in the United States: the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries.

The high school, Okinoerabu High School, was formed in 1949 through the merger of China High School and Wadomari High School ; it maintains campuses in both towns.

* County and City Data Book-formed by merger of a 1944 Cities Supplement to the Abstract and a 1947 County Data Book, began publication in 1949 with the latest edition being the 14th ( 2007 ).

It was chartered in 1949 by the merger of,

Traditionally, the Council has fought amalgamation of their area with other councils, though additional land has been added to the Council since 1885 such as annexure of the unincorporated area of Flemington, merger with the west ward of the abolished Enfield Council in 1949 and merger with the Municipality of Homebush in May 1947.

, located in the Japanese cities of Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, was established 1949 by the merger of a number of national educational institutions.

Incorporated in 1976 following the merger of the cities of Orsainville, Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides, the town of Charlesbourg ( 1949 ) and the municipality of Charlesbourg-Est ( 1928 ).

The Baltimore Bullets were an American Basketball League ( 1944 – 47 ) team, and later, a Basketball Association of America ( 1947 – 49 ), and ( beginning in 1949, following the BAA's merger with the National Basketball League ) a National Basketball Association team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

The company, whose name is an abbreviation of Cement Roadstone Holdings, was formed through the merger in 1970 of Cement Ltd ( established in 1936 ) and Roadstone Ltd ( established in 1949 ).

It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former Princely States, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin with Trivandrum as the capital.

An anti-merger congregation in Brooklyn filed suit against the CC moderator, Helen Kenyon, in 1949 to legally stop the merger proceedings ; the major legal contention made by the church and the anti-union advocates was that the CC General Council possessed no authority to enter into a merger as a national entity.

The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts ( 東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō ) and the Tokyo Music School ( 東京音楽学校 Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō ), both of which were founded in 1887.

The North Eastern force had been formed on May 16, 1949, by the merger of Aberdeenshire Constabulary, Banffshire Constabulary, Kincardineshire Constabulary, and Moray and Nairn Constabulary.

Established in 1949, the club played at Victoria Road from 1955 until its merger with Redbridge Forest in 1992 to form Dagenham & Redbridge.

After the BAA-NBL merger to form the NBA prior to the 1949 – 50 campaign, he continued to serve in the dual capacity role until his retirement as an active player in 1953.

In July 1949 Morris and Austin announced the end of their scheme, no further steps would be taken to pool production resources and no merger of any kind was contemplated.

In 1949 the Colts were one of three AAFC teams, along with the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns, to be brought into the NFL following the AAFC-NFL merger.

The municipality was abolished upon merger into the City of Sydney in 1949, along with Darlington, Erskineville, Newtown, Redfern, Waterloo, Paddington and Glebe.