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| yp3=1948
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| ya2=1951
| ya3=1952
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1949 (''' MCMXLIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June-July
August
September
October-November
December
unknown date
Births
January
- January 2 - Christopher Durang , American playwright
- January 7 - Steven Williams , American actor
- January 8 - Wolfgang Puck , Austrian chef
- January 10 - George Foreman , American boxer
- January 10 - James Lapine , American stage director and librettist
- January 10 - Linda Lovelace , American actress (d. 2002 )
- January 11 - Kalev Ots , Estonian statesman
- January 12 - Wayne Wang , Hong Kong-born film director
- January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff , American television executive (d. 1997 )
- January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan , American director and screenwriter
- January 17 - Andy Kaufman , American comedian (d. 1984 )
- January 18 - Philippe Starck , French designer
- January 19 - Robert Palmer , English musician (d. 2003 )
- January 19 - Dennis Taylor , Northern Irish snooker player
- January 20 - Göran Persson , Prime Minister Of Sweden
- January 24 - John Belushi , American actor (d. 1982 )
- January 30 - Peter Agre , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- January 31 - Ken Wilber , American philosopher
February
- February 2 - Brent Spiner , American actor
- February 3 - Hennie Kuiper , Dutch cyclist, World Champion in 1975
- February 9 - Jim Sheridan , Irish film director
- February 10 - Maxime Le Forestier , French singer
- February 10 - Harold Sylvester , American actor
- February 15 - Ken Anderson , American football player
- February 18 - Gary Ridgway , American serial killer
- February 19 - Dan Bunten , American computer game designer(d. 1998 )
- February 22 - Niki Lauda , Austrian race car driver
- February 25 - Ric Flair , American professional wrestler
March
- March 2 - Gates McFadden , American actress
- March 2 - Eddie Money , American singer
- March 2 - JPR Williams , Welsh rugby player
- March 3 - Jesse Jefferson , baseball player
- March 6 - Shaukat Aziz , Prime Minister Of Pakistan
- March 6 - Martin Buchan , Scottish footballer
- March 7 - Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician
- March 10 - Larry Wall , American computer programmer
- March 12 - Bill Payne , American musician ( Little Feat )
- March 12 - Natalia Kuchinskaya , Soviet gymnast
- March 13 - Julia Migenes , American soprano
- March 16 - Erik Estrada , Puerto Rican actor
- March 16 - Victor Garber , Canadian actor
- March 17 - Patrick Duffy , American actor
- March 17 - Pat Rice , Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- March 18 - Alex Higgins , Northern Irish snooker player
- March 22 - Fanny Ardant , French actress
- March 23 - Ric Ocasek , American musician ( The Cars )
- March 24 - Nick Lowe , American musician
- March 26 - Patrick Süskind , German writer
- March 30 - Marcia Ball , American musician
- March 30 - Lene Lovich , American singer
April-May
- April 1 - Gérard Mestrallet , French businessman
- April 1 - Sammy Nelson , Northern Irish footballer
- April 1 - Gil Scott-Heron , American musician and composer
- April 3 - Richard Thompson , British musician and songwriter
- April 6 - Horst Ludwig Störmer , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 7 - John Oates , American musician ( Hall And Oates )
- April 14 - John Shea , American actor
- April 16 - Sandy Hawley , Canadian jockey
- April 17 - Frank Llort , Salvadoran Painter
- April 18 - Geoff Bodine , American race car driver
- May 4 - John Force , American race car driver
- May 7 - Tanya Falan , American singer
- May 9 - Billy Joel , American musician
- May 18 - Rick Wakeman , English musician and songwriter ( Yes )
- May 18 - Bill Wallace , Canadian musician ( The Guess Who )
- May 19 - Archie Manning , American football player
- May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski , Slovenian mathematician
- May 26 - Philip Michael Thomas , American actor
- May 26 - Hank Williams Jr. , American singer
- May 31 - Tom Berenger , American actor
June-August
- June 2 - Heather Couper , British Astronomer
- June 8 - Emanuel Ax , Polish-born pianist
- June 13 - Ann Druyan , writer
- June 14 - Jimmy Lea , English musician ( Slade )
- June 14 - Harry Turtledove , American historian and novelist
- June 21 - John Agard , British poet and playwright
- June 21 - Jane Urquhart , Canadian author
- July 3 - Jan Smithers , American actress
- July 15 - Carl Bildt , Prime Minister Of Sweden
- July 17 - Charlie Steiner , American sportscaster
- July 22 - Alan Menken , American composer
- July 26 - Roger Taylor , English musician ( Queen )
- August 6 - Alan Campbell , Northern Irish clergyman
- August 7 - Walid Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze
- August 12 - Mark Knopfler , English guitarist, Dire Straits
- August 15 - Richard Deacon , Welsh sculptor
- August 23 - Shelley Long , American actress
- August 23 - Rick Springfield , Australian singer and actor
- August 25 - Martin Amis , English novelist
- August 31 - Richard Gere , American actor
- August 31 - H. David Politzer , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September-October
- September 1 - P.A. Sangma , Indian politician
- September 3 - Patriarch Peter VII Of Alexandria (d. 2004 )
- September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell , American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
- September 7 - Gloria Gaynor , American singer
- September 14 - Eikichi Yazawa , Japanese singer
- September 15 - Joe Barton , American politician
- September 17 - Cassandra Peterson , American actress Elvira
- September 18 - Mo Mowlam , British politician (d. 2005 )
- September 19 - Twiggy Lawson , English model
- September 23 - Bruce Springsteen , American singer and songwriter
- September 27 - Mike Schmidt , baseball player
- October 1 - Isaac Bonewits , American author and occultist
- October 8 - Sigourney Weaver , American actress
- October 14 - Katy Manning , British actress
- October 20 - Valeri Borzov , Ukrainian athlete
- October 21 - Benjamin Netanyahu , Prime Minister Of Israel
- October 22 - Arsene Wenger , French football manager
- October 22 - Stiv Bators , American musician ( The Dead Boys ) (d. 1990 )
November
- November 5 - Armin Shimerman , American actor
- November 6 - Arturo Sandoval , Cuban musician
- November 7 - Aiswarya , Queen of Nepal (d. 2001 )
- November 7 - Judi Bari , American environmental activist (d. 1997 )
- November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger , British politician
- November 25 - Kerry James O'Keeffe , Australian Test cricketer and commentator
- November 26 - Juanin Clay , American actress (d. 1995 )
- November 28 - Alexander Godunov , Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995 )
- November 29 - Jerry Lawler , American porfessional wrestler, and commentator
December
- December 3 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997 )
- December 4 - Jeff Bridges , American actor
- December 4 - Pamela Stephenson , New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
- December 7 - Tom Waits , American singer, composer, and actor
- December 12 - Bill Nighy , English actor
- December 13 – Randy Owen , lead singer of the country music band Alabama
- December 14 - Bill Buckner , baseball player
- December 16 - Billy Gibbons , American guitarist (ZZ Top)
- December 17 - Paul Rodgers , British singer ( Free )
- December 22 - Maurice Gibb , Australian musician ( The Bee Gees ) (d. 2003 )
- December 22 - Robin Gibb , Australian musician ( The Bee Gees )
- December 24 - Randy Neugebauer , American politician
- December 25 - Sissy Spacek , American actress
- December 25 - Joe Louis Walker , American musician
- December 26 - José Ramos Horta , Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Unknown date
Deaths
January-June
- January 6 - Victor Fleming , American director (b. 1883 )
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday , American publisher (b. 1889 )
- January 14 - Joaquín Turina , Spanish composer (b. 1882 )
- January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (b. 1908 )
- February 12 - Imam Hassan Al Banna , Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906 )
- March 30 - Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884 )
- April 18 - Will Hay , British Comedian & Actor (b. 1888 )
- April 19 - Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (b. 1877 )
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )
- May 9 - Louis II, Prince Of Monaco (b. 1870 )
- May 22 - James Forrestal , U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892 )
- May 22 - Klaus Mann , German writer (suicide) (b. 1906 )
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset , Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882 )
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday , American author and publisher (b. 1872 )
July-December
- July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart , English-born composer (b. 1874 )
- July 12 - Douglas Hyde , first President Of Ireland (b. 1860 )
- July 18 - Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer (b. 1870 )
- August 18 - Paul Mares , American musician (b. 1900 )
- August 30 - Arthur Fielder , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
- September 8 - Richard Strauss , German composer (b. 1864 )
- September 13 - August Krogh , Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1874 )
- September 19 - Will Cuppy , American humorist (b. 1884 )
- September 19 - George Shiels , Northern Irish dramatist (b. 1886 )
- September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas , Greek composer (b. 1901 )
- October 27 - Marcel Cerdan , French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916 )
- October 27 - Ginette Neveu , French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919 )
- December 6 - Leadbelly , American musician (b. 1885 )
- December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya , Indian philosopher (b. 1875 )
- December 16 - Sidney Olcott , Canadian film director (b. 1873 )
- December 28 - Hervey Allen , American author (b. 1889 )
- December 28 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete (b. 1910 )
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