* 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 )

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

After the 1778 alliance with France, the U. S. did not sign another permanent treaty until the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

By 1949 the U. S. and Britain agreed that West Germany had to be rearmed to strengthen the defenses of Western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion.

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.

The withdrawal of most U. S. forces from South Korea in June 1949 left the southern government defended only by a weak and inexperienced South Korean army.

Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1949.

* 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. Federal Government.

* 1949 – Laurie McBain, U. S. American novelist.

* In 1950 Menzies was awarded the Legion of Merit ( Chief Commander ) by U. S. President Harry S. Truman for " exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services 1941 – 1944 and December 1949 – July 1950 ".

Only two 1949 models were sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car had no future in the U. S. ( The Type 1 went on to become an automotive phenomenon.

* Operation Dropshot, an all-out U. S. war with the Soviet Union, is expected to be triggered by the Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia, as it was anticipated in 1949.

* Frank Lautenberg, BS 1949, U. S. Senator from New Jersey

In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU's central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations ( including the U. S. AFL-CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT ) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.

* The Fan ( U. S .) also known as Lady Windermere's Fan ( UK ) ( 1949 )

From 1947 – 1949, he attended Texarkana Junior College, then entered the U. S. Naval Academy in 1949 and helped establish its honor system.

Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, ( March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949 ), commonly known as Charles Ponzi, was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U. S. and Canada.

Murder at the Windmill ( 1949 ), ( known in the U. S. A. as " Mystery at the Burlesque ") directed by Val Guest is set at the Windmill Theatre, London and features Diana Decker, Jon Pertwee and Jimmy Edwards.

Justice Douglas, dissenting in Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander ( 337 U. S. 562, 1949 ), gave an opinion similar to, but shorter than, the one quoted above, to which Justice Black concurred.

The U. S. National Book Award was reestablished in 1950 with awards by the book industry to authors of 1949 books in three categories.

Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company and affiliated with NBC ; in 1949, WKY-TV went on the air and became the first independently-owned television station in the U. S. to broadcast in color.

The 1950 Crosley Hot Shot is often given credit for the first U. S. production disc brakes but the Chrysler Crown Imperial actually had them first as standard equipment at the beginning of the 1949 model year.

De jure, the German Reich did not cease to exist in 1945, but after four years of Allied occupation, three German states were formed inside of Germany as a whole in 1949: the Federal Republic of Germany ( then commonly known as West Germany ) in the former U. S., and British zones of occupation, the Saar in French zone, until 1957, when it joined the FRG, and the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) in the former Soviet Zone.

Divorced from Paramount Pictures at the end of 1949 by the U. S. Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., UPT was cash-rich and controlled much valuable real estate.