* 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 first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

* In 1949, the Lucky Lady II, a Boeing B-50 Superfortress of the U. S. Air Force, commanded by Captain James Gallagher, became the first aeroplane to circle the world nonstop.

Consequently, Cave 1 was rediscovered on 28 January 1949, by Belgian United Nations observer Captain Phillipe Lippens and Arab Legion Captain Akkash el-Zebn.

He also appeared in Captain China ( 1949 ) and Don't Make Waves ( 1965 ).

* Timely Comics ' Marvel Mystery Comics with the Human torch (# 92, June 1949 ), Sub-Mariner Comics (# 32, June 1949 ), and Captain America Comics ( then Captain America's Weird Tales ) at issue # 75 ( February 1950 ); and a transformation to the Atlas Comics logo on comics cover-dated November 1951.

* Captain in The Father ( August Strindberg ) directed by Dennis Arundell with Freda Jackson as Laura, Embassy Theatre November 1948 ; and Duchess Theatre January 1949

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

Deeply troubled by the conflict between his pacifism and his training for war, he spoke at length with his company commander, Captain Edward Courtney Bullock Danforth ( 1894 – 1973 ) of Augusta, Georgia and his battalion commander, Major Gonzalo Edward Buxton ( 1880 – 1949 ) of Providence, Rhode Island, a devout Christian himself.

The US children's radio series Little Orphan Annie ( 1931 – 1940 ) and Captain Midnight ( 1938 – 1949 ), and the subsequent Captain Midnight TV series ( 1954 – 1956 ), were sponsored by Ovaltine.

Marvel Comics was rechristened Marvel Mystery Comics with issue # 2 ( Dec. 1939 ) — the magazine would continue under that title through # 92 ( June 1949 ) before becoming Marvel Tales through # 159 ( Aug. 1957 ) — and Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics # 1 ( Jan. 1940 ), Mystic Comics # 1 ( March 1940 ), Red Raven Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1940 ), The Human Torch # 2 ( premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven ), and Captain America Comics # 1 ( March 1941 ).

David Cornell Leestma ( born May 6, 1949 ) is a former American astronaut and retired Captain in the United States Navy.

The Straffan Estate was sold by Captain Frederick Bertram Barton (" Derick ") in 1949, a father to Anthony Frederick and brother to Ronald.

Since 1949, the theory that Drake landed at Drakes Bay has been advocated by the Drake Navigators Guild in California, and notably by its former president Captain Adolph S. Oko, Jr., its former honorary chairman Chester W. Nimitz, and its longtime former president Raymond Aker.

Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. ( born on May 15, 1949 ) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired Captain in the United States Navy.

Group Captain Leslie Bonnet, RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck and his wife Joan Hutt, artist both lived at Ymwlch just outside Criccieth from 1949 until their deaths in 1985.

Hastings played Captain Video's teenaged companion, the Video Ranger, on the DuMont television series Captain Video and His Video Rangers, from 1949 to 1955.

* Captain Hugh W. Faulkner: February 1948-August 1949

The first really popular science-fiction program on American television was the children ’ s adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran for six years ( June 1949 to April 1955 ) on the short-lived DuMont Network.

* James Atlas ( born 1949 ), is a founding editor of the Lipper / Viking Penguin Lives Series

* 1949 – James Fenton, English poet

Fuller lectured at NC State University in Raleigh in 1949, where he met James Fitzgibbon, who would become a close friend and colleague.

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

James P. Jordan argued for the importance of Anglicanism to Linebarger's works back to 1949.

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1892 – James Forrestal, American politician, Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1949 )

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

* 1884 – James Rector, American sprinter ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – James Lapine, American stage director

At the end of 1949, he went on tour in Paris with a group including Tadd Dameron, Kenny Clarke ( who remained in Europe after the tour ), and James Moody.

* 1876 – James Steen, American water polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker ( b. 1860 )

* 1949 – James Williamson, American guitarist

* February 13 – Almanzo James Wilder, American writer ( d. 1949 )

* July 17 – James Somerville, British admiral ( d. 1949 )

* April 13 – James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker ( d. 1949 )

* February 15 – James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense ( d. 1949 )

James Ensor ( 1860 – 1949 ) was an influential Expressionist painter and printmaker.

* Agee, James, " Comedy's Greatest Era " from Life ( September 5, 1949 ), reprinted in Agee on Film ( 1958 ) McDowell, Obolensky, ( 2000 ) Modern Library

Tracy finished off the 1940s with Malaya ( 1949 ), an adventure film with James Stewart, and Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), a comedy with Tracy and Hepburn playing married lawyers who oppose each other in court.

* 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens