* 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 )

** Kevin Lloyd, British actor ( b. 1949 )

* Stan Love ( 1949 – ), NBA player 1971 – 1975 and father of Kevin Love

* Kevin Murphy ( swimmer ) ( born 1949 ), " King of the Channel " title holder for crossing the English Channel

Kevin Major ( born September 12, 1949 ) is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons.

* Ashley Kevin Godfrey Huggins, 3rd Viscount Malvern ( b. 1949 )

** Nora Guthrie & Jorge Arévalo Mateus ( compilation producers ), Jamie Howarth, Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith & Dr. Kevin Short ( mastering engineers ) for The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949

John Markoff ( born October 24, 1949 ) is a journalist best known for his work at The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.

His brothers and sisters are: William Barron Hilton, Jr. ( born 1948 ); Hawley Anne Hilton ( born 1949 ); Stephen Michael Hilton ( born 1950 ); David Alan Hilton ( born 1952 ); Sharon Constance Hilton ( born 1953 ); Daniel Kevin Hilton ( born 1962 ); and Ronald Jeffrey Hilton ( born 1963 ).

Kevin Volans was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 6 July 1949, and even though he has spent most of his life outside his native country, is the best known South African composer active today.

Bernie Naylor Medallists: ( 13 total ) 1923: Dinney Coffey ( 36 ), 1933: George Doig ( 106 ), 1934: George Doig ( 152 ), 1935: George Doig ( 113 ), 1936: George Doig ( 109 ), 1937: George Doig ( 144 ), 1941: George Doig ( 141 ), 1949: George Prince ( 82 ), 1966: Bob Johnson ( 92 ), 1979: Kevin Taylor ( 102 ), 1989: Neil Lester-Smith ( 90 ), 1999: Rod Tregenza ( 57 ), 2000: Rod Tregenza ( 86 )

* Kevin Corcoran ( born 1949 ), American director, producer and former child actor

Kevin B. Sullivan, ( born 1949 ) a Democrat, was Connecticut's 86th Lieutenant Governor, from 2004 to 2007.

Kevin Reardon Lloyd ( 28 March 1949 – 2 May 1998 ) was an English actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London.

Kevin Francis Sullivan ( October 26, 1949 ) is an American professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) as " The Taskmaster " and his leading of the " Dungeon of Doom ".

In 1949, Sullivan booked dancer Paul Draper to appear on Toast of the Town.

* February 21 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst ( d. 1949 )

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

Fred Allen ( born John Florence Sullivan ; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956 ) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show ( 1932 – 1949 ) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

Zero also appears in the May 11, 1949 Toast of the Town broadcast hosted by Ed Sullivan, doing a hilarious and crazy routine as only he could.

Harry Stack Sullivan ( February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York – January 14, 1949, Paris, France ) was a U. S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation ( versus the more abstract conceptions of the unconscious mind favored by Sigmund Freud and his disciples ).

He played an Epiphone Emperor when he was a member of the Benny Goodman band in 1948 and 1949, which he also played on the Ed Sullivan Show during a performance of " Rock Around the Clock ".

The last routes to use the center streetcar tracks and continue along Causeway Street were the ( last operated April 2, 1948 ) and ( last operated July 1, 1949 ), both running through Charlestown to Sullivan Square.

David Sullivan ( born 1 February 1949 ) is a Welsh-born British businessman and pornographer, who is also joint-chairman of West Ham United.

Interpersonal psychoanalysis is based on the theories of Harry Stack Sullivan ( 1892 – 1949 ), an American psychiatrist, who believed that the details of a patient's interpersonal interactions with others can provide insight into the causes and cures of mental disorder.

* Thomas M. Sullivan ( born c. 1949 ), American radio talk show host and television show host

* Tom Sullivan ( rower ), ( 1868 – 1949 ), New Zealand oarsman

George " Red " Sullivan ( born December 24, 1929 in Peterborough, Ontario ) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League from 1949 to 1961.

George " Red " Sullivan began his NHL career with the Boston Bruins ( 1949 – 1953 ).