1949 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1950 ,
1951 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- January 15 — Marius Tresor , French football player
- January 18 — Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian F1 race driver (d. 1982 )
- January 19 — Eshetu Tura , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- February 7 — Mauro Bellugi , Italian football player
- February 14 — Phil Dent , Australian tennis player
- February 22 — Julius Erving , Basketball Hall of Famer
- March 9 — Danny Sullivan , automobile racer
- March 21 — Anders Linderoth , Swedish football player
- March 28 — Roland Andersson , Swedish football player
- April 1 — Paolo Conti , Italian football player
- April 8 — Grzegorz Lato , Polish football player
- April 24 — Henryk Maculewicz , Polish football player
- April 26 — Elizabeth Chase , Zimbabwean field hockey player
- April 27 — Paolino Pulici , Italian football player
- May 7 — Randall 'Tex' Cobb , boxer and actor
- May 9 — James Butts , American triple jumper
- May 15 — Renate Stecher , East German athlete
- May 18 — Rodney Milburn , American hurdler
- June 3 — Marlene Elejarde , Cuban 4x100m runner (d. 1980 )
- June 5 — Adrian Cosma , Romanian handball player
- June 11 — Pokey Watson , American backstroke swimmer
- June 18 — Annelie Ehrhardt , Germann 100m hurdler
- June 25 — Tatyana Averina , Soviet speed skater
- June 27 — Benjamin Peterson , American heavyweight boxer
- July 6 — Sultan Rakhmanov , Soviet weightlifter
- July 9 — Adriano Panatta , Italian tennis player
- July 13 — Rod Dixon , New Zealand middle distance runner
- July 16 — Dennis Priestley , British darts player
- July 18 — Sandor Pinter , Hungarian football player
- July 21 — Ubaldo Fillol , Argentinian football goalkeeper
- July 23 — Ramon Quiroga , Peruvian football goalkeeper
- July 29 — Maricica Puică , Romanian middle distance athlete
- August 3 — Waldemar Cierpinski , German marathon runner
- August 4 — Alex Olmedo , Peru-born tennis player from the United States
- August 5 — Rosi Mittermaier , German alpine skier
- August 7 — David Wottle , American track and field athlete
- August 12 — Shirley Haig , New Zealand field hockey player
- August 22 — Celia Breckenridge , British lacrosse player
- October 3 — Andrzej Szarmach , Polish football player
- October 5 — Hugo Hovenkamp , Dutch football player
- October 12 — Miguel Oviedo , Argentinian football player
- October 13 — Annegret Richter , German athlete
- October 14 — Kurt Jara , Austrian football player
- October 24 — Asa Hartford , Scottish football player
- November 1 — Jan Evert Veer , Dutch water polo player
- November 4 — Benny Wendt , Swedish football player
- November 11 — Rex Sellers , New Zealand yachtsman
- November 16 — Héctor Baley , Argentinian football player
- November 22 — Lyman Bostock , Major League Baseball player
- November 26 — Dieter Burdenski , German football goalkeeper
- December 3 — Peter Trump , German field hockey player
- December 27 — Roberto Bettega , Italian football player
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