1949
Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
January
 January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.
*January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
January 5 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
January 11 - KDKA-TV, Becomes the first local, on-air television station.
January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
January 19 - First recorded date of The Poe Toaster to appear at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe
January 20 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.
November 2 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
November 3 - Larry Holmes, American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
November 5
*Armin Shimerman, American actor
*Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
November 6 - Nigel Havers, British Actor
November 7
*Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
*Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d. 1997)
November 19 - Ahmad Rashad, American sports host and commentator
November 15 - David Rubinstein, American pianist and composer
November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
November 25 - Kerry James O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and commentator
November 26 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
*Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
November 28
*Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995)
*Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician
November 29
*Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
*Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (d. 1983)
*Garry Shandling, American comedian
December 1 - Kurt Schmoke, Dean, Howard Law School, Mayor of Baltimore
December 3 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
December 4
*Jeff Bridges, American actor
*Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
December 7 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
December 8 - Mary Gordon, American writer
December 11 - Teri Garr, American actress
December 12 - Rajinikanth, Indian actor
December 13
*Robert Lindsay, English actor
*Randy Owen, lead vocals, rhythm guitar for Alabama
*Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television
December 14 - Bill Buckner, baseball player
December 15 - Don Johnson, American actor
December 16 - Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
December 17 - Paul Rodgers, British singer (Free)
December 19 - Sebastian, Danish musician
December 22
*Maurice Gibb, British musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
*Robin Gibb, British musician (The Bee Gees)
December 24 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
December 25
*Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
*Sissy Spacek, American actress
*Joe Louis Walker, American musician
December 26 - José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
unknown date - Brian Calvin Hartnell, Zodiac killer survivor
unknown date - Suthep Po-ngam, Thai comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter.
Deaths
See also
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)
February 21 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
March 25 - Jack Kapp, president of US branch of Decca Records (b. 1901)
March 28 - Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer (b. 1889)
March 30
*Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
*Prince Harald of Denmark (b. 1876)
April 18 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 28 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
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)
*Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
May 27 - Robert Ripley the creator of the famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! dies.
June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
June 14 - Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
June 19 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Indian/Pakistani Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
June 25 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
July-December
July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
July 18 - Vítezslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, American writer (b. 1900)
August 17 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
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 14 - Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German Resistance figure (b. 1901)
September 19
*Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
*George Shiels, Irish writer (b. 1886)
*Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
October 27
*Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
*Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
November - Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of Imperial House of Mexico (b. 1872)
November 2 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
November 5 - Abdolhossein Hazhir, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1899)
December 6 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
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)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Yukawa Hideki
Chemistry - William Francis Giauque
Medicine - Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano De Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
Literature - William Faulkner
Peace - John Boyd Orr
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