* 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 January 9, 1949 radio episode of Screen Directors Playhouse had John Wayne and Claire Trevor both reprise their parts.

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.

Trevor Charles Horn, CBE ( born 15 July 1949 ) is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer.

The CSIRAC was constructed by a team led by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard, working in large part independently of similar efforts across Europe and the United States, and ran its first test program sometime in November 1949.

* Trevor Jones ( composer ) ( born 1949 ), South African orchestral film score composer

* Died: Joe Louis, 66, American heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949 ; the night before, he had watched Larry Holmes defeat challenger Trevor Berbick in Lasa Vegas

The television premiere of The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour appeared on WCAU TV in Philadelphia in 1948, succeeded by WNBT ( TV ) in New York in 1949, telecast on Sunday mornings.

* In the film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1949 ), based on Oscar Wilde's novel, the inscription " Little Boy Blue Come Blow Your Horn " appears embroidered on a towel on which Dorian Gray wipes his bloody hands after having killed Basil Hallward

Her 1949 novel, Hunter's Horn, was a best seller and received considerable critical acclaim, finishing close to William Faulkner's A Fable in that year's voting for the Pulitzer Prize.

Dr. Dame Naomi Christine James, Mrs. Haythorne DBE, Ph. D ( née Power ; born 2 March 1949 ) was the first woman to sail single-handed ( i. e., solo ) around the world via Cape Horn.

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

* 1949 – Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer ( Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies )

* 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