* February 1 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician ( d. 1949 )

* Jerome Apt, Ph. D. ( born 1949 ), an American astronaut

Jerome III " Jay " Apt, Ph. D. ( born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts ) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Ruth and Rodney welcome their first son, Jerome " Jerry " Sylvian Fertel, born March 15, 1949.

Shot in color and CinemaScope, the film is a remake of House of Strangers ( 1949 ) with the Phillip Yordan screenplay ( based upon a novel by Jerome Weidman called I'll Never Go Home Any More ), transplanted out west, featuring Tracy in the original Edward G. Robinson role, this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than a Lower East Side Italian immigrant banker in New York City.

* Writers Guild of America: WGA Award ; Best Written American Drama, Jerome Cady and Jay Dratler ; The Robert Meltzer Award ( Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene ), Jerome Cady and Jay Dratler ; 1949.

In 1949 John F. Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins reported growth of poliovirus in cultured human embryonal cells, the first significant example of an animal virus grown outside of animals or chicken eggs.

* 31 March 1949: R. R. Robbins left the partnership by mutual agreement, but the firm's name remained Wild & Robbins.

Other prominent alumni include entertainers such as Thelonious Monk ( 1935 ), and actors Lucy Liu ( 1986 ), Tim Robbins ( 1976 ), and James Cagney ( 1918 ), comedian Paul Reiser ( 1973 ) and NBA basketball player and game fixer / bookmaker Jack Molinas ( 1949 ).

The main character in the 1949 novel The Dream Merchants by Harold Robbins, a former Universal Studios employee, is based upon Carl Laemmle.

* Around About Midnight / You Sure Look Good To Me ( Score # 4010 ) ( 1949 ) ( as The Robbins )

* Don ’ t Like The Way You ’ re Doing / Come Back Baby ( Aladdin # 3031 ) ( 1949 ) ( as The Robbins )

* If I Didn ’ t Love You So / If It ’ s So Baby ( Savoy # 726 ) ( 12 / 1949 ) ( as The Robbins )

* Archive footage of ABT ( then Ballet Theatre ) performing Robbins ' ballet Interplay in 1949 at Jacob's Pillow

In 1949, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins reported successful in vitro culture of an animal virus — poliovirus.

Gil Robbins served as Drum Major of the UCLA Band in 1949 and 1950.

Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins ( 1888 – 1949 ) was an American author of horror and mystery fiction.

Robbins attended Washington and Lee University ( Lexington, Virginia ) and — along with Mark W. Sheafe ( 1884 ?– 1949 ) and Thornton Whitney Allen ( 1890 – 1944 )— wrote the college song " Washington and Lee Swing.

The Dream Merchants is an American novel written by Harold Robbins and published in 1949.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

He approached the 1949 season with the intent to try to hit more home runs, stating he had hit 39 the previous season " without trying ".

During 1949, Katherine Whinery approached the mayor of Grand Rapids about resurrecting the zoo by forming a Zoo Society.

Although he recognized that real unification could result only from an evolutionary process and not legislative edict, as the end of his term approached he discerned the need for changes in the National Security Act beyond those made in 1949.

The three-storey gatehouse to Raglan Castle dates from the 1460s and is approached over a stone bridge restored in 1949.

Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden between 1946 and 1949 had invented a solution acrylic paint under the brand Magna paint.

Leonard Bloomfield ( April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949 ) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

* Leonard Bloomfield ( 1887 – 1949 ), American linguist

Randall Evan Stonehill was born in Stockton, California on March 12, 1952, the son of Leonard N. Stonehill ( born September 19, 1920 ), a high school teacher, and his wife, Pauline Correia ( born February 18, 1921 ), a school teacher of Azorean Portuguese heritage, and the younger brother of Jeffrey Dean Stonehill ( born October 28, 1949 in Alameda County, California ).

* Leonard H. Tower Jr. ( 1949 -), free software activist, software hacker, and founding member of the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation ( graduated Brentwood HS in 1967 )

* Stewart Leonard Huxley ( born 19 December 1949 )

His Turangalîla-Symphonie was first performed in America in 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

* Major Greenwood ( 1880 – 1949 ), epidemiologist and statistician-Sir Leonard Hill gave him his first job after graduation as an assistant physiologist before he turned to his later career, and he later became a neighbour of the Hill family in Loughton

The premiere was given by that orchestra on December 2, 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston.

* Leonard Holmes à Court, 4th Baron Heytesbury ( 1863 – 1949 )

* Excavations at Alalakh, Turkey, conducted by Leonard Woolley, begin ( continue until 1949, interrupted by World War II ).

Percy Paul Mockler ( born April 14, 1949 in St. Leonard, New Brunswick ) is a Canadian Senator and former New Brunswick MLA.

Tell Atchana was excavated by the British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley in the years 1937-1939 and 1946 – 1949, during which palaces, temples, private houses and fortification walls were discovered, in 17 archaeological levels reaching from late Early Bronze Age ( Level XVII, ca.

In 1949, Loeb used the additional $ 300, 000 from his mother and cash from various state politicians he endorsed to buy out Leonard Finder.

Lincoln associates Leonard Swett, Ward Hill Lamon, and David Davis helped engineer Lincoln's nomination, according to the 1949 doctoral thesis Ward Hill Lamon: Lincoln's Particular Friend, written by Lavern Marshall Hamand at the Graduate College of the University of Illinois.

Books, films, and songs about sailors on shore leave include Jean Genet's 1953 novel, Querelle of Brest ; Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1949 film musical of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town ; and Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel's 1964 ballad " Amsterdam ".

Leonard John " Lenny " McLean ( 9 April 1949 – 28 July 1998 ), also known as " The Guv ' nor ," was an East End of London bareknuckle fighter, bouncer, criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter and actor, and has been referred to as " the hardest man in Britain ".

Burnett's inspiration for the exceedingly masculine " Marlboro Man " icon came in 1949 from an issue of LIFE magazine, where the photograph ( shot by Leonard McCombe ) and story of Texas cowboy Clarence Hailey Long caught his attention.

In the 20th century, examples include: Agustín Barrios's Julia Florida ; the second movement of Villa-Lobos's Trio No. 2 ( 1915 ) ( which contains a Berceuse-Barcarolla ); the first movement of Francis Poulenc's Napoli Suite for solo piano ( 1925 ); George Gershwin's Dance of the Waves ( 1937 ); Ned Rorem's three Barcaroles for piano, composed in Morocco ( 1949 ); " The Kings ' Barcarole " from Leonard Bernstein's Candide ( 1956 ); and " Agony " from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

* Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. ( born 1949 ), president of Major League Baseball's National League ( 1994 – 1999 )

David Leonard Congdon ( born 16 October 1949 ) is a British former Conservative Party politician.

After Gaumont British's parent company, the Rank Organisation, went bust in 1949, Smith found work drawing comics for the Amalgamated Press under editor Leonard Matthews, starting on Knockout with humour strips like " Deed-a-Day Danny " and " Young Joey ".

* Stephen Gyllenhaal ( b. 1949 ), film director ( great grandson of Anders Leonard G .), was married to producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.

Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White ( born December 19, 1949 ) is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.