* 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 )

Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi ( Siemens AG ) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device showing five transistors on a common substrate in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement.

The studies by Werner Betz ( 1949, 1939 ), Einar Haugen ( 1950, also 1956 ), and Uriel Weinreich ( 1953 ) are regarded as the classical theoretical works on loan influence.

Werner Meyer-Eppler mentioned on the musical application of ring modulator in his book published in 1949 " Elektrische Klangerzeugung " and it became an origin of Oberheim Electronics Music Modulator and Maestro Ring Modulator, one of the earliest ring modulator effect products for guitarists.

Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond E. Siday first predicted the effect in 1949, and similar effects were later published by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm in 1959.

In Cologne, elektronische Musik, pioneered in 1949 – 51 by the composer Herbert Eimert and the physicist Werner Meyer-Eppler, was based solely on electronically generated ( synthetic ) sounds, particularly sine waves ( Eimert 1957, 2 ; Morawska-Büngeler 1988, 11 – 13 ; Ungeheuer 1992, 13 ).

After the war, the first Journalism school in Germany was founded in 1949 as Werner Friedmann Institute.

* Werner Giger ( 1949 – 1974 ), Swiss motorcycle racer

Werner Langen ( born 27 November 1949 ) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate.

* Werner Langen ( born 1949 ), German politician and Member of the European Parliament

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

For fifty years, Utah Fuel operated the coal mines in Sunnyside, selling its interest to Kaiser Steel Corporation in 1949.

In 1948, after too many disputes with Henry Kaiser, Joseph Frazer resigned as president of Kaiser-Frazer ; Henry Kaiser's oldest son, Edgar, was made president in April 1949.

Henry Kaiser also ignored his business partner's protests to not tool up for 250, 000 cars in 1949 when the company now had to face all-new designs from the Big Three.

* Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia ( 1887 – 1949 ), fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II

As the market for K-F products slowed in 1949 with the introduction of new designs from the Big Three, Kaiser pushed for more production creating an oversupply of cars that took until mid-1950 to sell.

1949 Kaiser Virginian

NEKAF assembled 6, 000 1949 Kaiser knock-down kits imported from the USA using some local content ( batteries, tires, interior carpets, glass ) and ignition and electrical system parts from France and England.

The vehicles were knock down kits imported from the USA with some local content like with the 1949 Kaiser assembly.

* 1949 – Bernd Müller, German footballer

* 1949 – Peter Maffay, German singer-songwriter

The constitutional law in Germany is ruled in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( German Grundgesetz, ) from 23. 05. 1949.

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.

The Bundestag was established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier Reichstag.

With the new constitution of 1949, the Bundestag was established as the new ( West ) German parliament.

The sessions of the German Bundestag were held there from 1949 until its move to Berlin in 1999.

In addition, the Occupation Statute of 1949, which granted partial independence to the newly created Federal Republic of Germany, specifically forbade the imposition of import quotas to protect German film production from foreign competition, the result of lobbying by the American industry as represented by the MPAA.

* Hans Reichenbach, The Theory of Probability, 1949 ( German original 1935 )

* 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist ( d. 1949 )

The political system is laid out in the 1949 constitution, the Grundgesetz ( Basic Law ), which remained in effect with minor amendments after 1990's German reunification.

Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

The German Democratic Republic ( GDR ; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR ), informally known as East Germany ( German: Ostdeutschland ), was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

As West Germany was reorganized and gained independence from the occupation, the German Democratic Republic was established in East Germany in 1949.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

In 1949 the Soviet zone became the " Deutsche Demokratische Republik " – " DDR " (" German Democratic Republic " – " GDR ", simply often " East Germany "), under control of the German Communist Party.

Marshall Plan funding helped overcome bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls ( which were removed in 1949 ), and Marshall Plan business reforms opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports.

After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig ( 1946 – 1949 ) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party ( LDPD ) in 1946.

The German Democratic Republic was declared on 7 October 1949, with a new constitution which enshrined socialism and gave the Soviet-controlled Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) control.