* 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 )

The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

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

* 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.

With the exception of Palestine's Gaza Strip, which came under the administration of the All-Palestine Government, the western frontier of the former Mandate of Palestine became the Egyptian-Israeli frontier under the 1949 Armistice Agreement.

Because the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the western United States, the Secretary of the Interior has typically come from a western state ; only one of the individuals to hold the office since 1949 is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River.

The Last Emperor became the first western film made in China and about the country to be produced with full Chinese government cooperation since 1949.

The band initially formed as Bill Haley and the Saddlemen c. 1949 – 1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.

Thus in 1949, when the rest of the Dutch East Indies became fully independent as Indonesia, the Dutch retained sovereignty over western New Guinea, and took steps to prepare it for independence as a separate country.

The western zones controlled by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States were merged, in May 1949, to form the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesrepublik Deutschland ); in October 1949, the Soviet Zone became the German Democratic Republic ( Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR ).

The People's Republic of China, founded in 1949, abolished Xikang province of the Republic of China and merged western part of that province into Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 while the rest of Xikang was made Sichuan province in 1955.

Bacque argued that this alleged mass murder was a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.

In 1949, Tom Tyler played Frank James in the film I Shot Jesse James, an account from Robert Ford's viewpoint, and the first western directed by Samuel Fuller.

In 1949, the states in the three western zones formed the Federal Republic of Germany.

East Germany chose Berlin ( in practice, East Berlin ) as its capital when the country was formed from the Soviet occupation zone in October 1949 ; however, this was rejected by the western allies, who continued to regard Berlin as an occupied city that was not legally part of any German state.

In 1949, he covered " Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me " a song that been successful for Wayne Raney as well as several country and western performers.

The KPD reorganised in the western part of Germany, and received 5. 7 % of the vote in the first Bundestag election in 1949.

* Streets of Laredo ( film ), a 1949 western film starring William Holden

Nonetheless, the popularity of the program and the perceived need to connect the vast, isolated central and western areas of the state prompted the passing of the Colson-Briscoe Act in 1949, sponsored by State Senator E. Neveille Colson and State Representative Dolph Briscoe.

West Germany, made up of the zones occupied by the three western powers, had been granted control of its own affairs except for defense and foreign policy in 1949, but most Germans wanted a neutral and reunited Germany.

From the end of 1944 to 1949, large sections of eastern Germany came under the Soviet Union's occupation and on 2 May 1945, the capital city Berlin was taken, while over fifteen million Germans were removed from eastern Germany and pushed into central Germany ( later called German Democratic Republic ) and western Germany ( later called Federal Republic of Germany ).

* As the 1949 western Colorado Territory starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, also directed by Raoul Walsh.

* Hellfire ( film ), a 1949 western