1949
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1949 is a common year starting on Saturday.
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
- May 5 - The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London.
- May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- May 11 - Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
- May 11 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.
- May 12 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
- May 20 - The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.
- May 22 - After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
- May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
- EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.
- June 2 - Transjordan becomes kingdom of Jordan
- June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
- June 8 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- June 29 - Last US troops withdraw from South Korea
- June 29 - Dock strike in the UK
- June 29 - Beginning of Apartheid - The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages
August
September
October-December
An Unknown Date
Year in topic
Births
January
- January 2 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
- January 7 - Steven Williams, American actor
- January 8 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian celebrity chef
- January 10
- January 11 - Kalev Ots, Estonian statesman
- January 12 - Wayne Wang, director
- January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff, 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 20 - Göran Persson, prime minister of Sweden
- January 24 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- January 31 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
February
March
- March 2 - Gates McFadden, American actress
- March 2 - Eddie Money, singer
- March 2 - JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
- March 3 - Jesse Jefferson, Major League Baseball pitcher
- March 6 - Shaukat Aziz, politician
- March 6 - Martin Buchan, Scottish football (soccer) player
- March 7 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- March 10 - Larry Wall, programmer, linguist, author, creator of Perl
- March 12 - Bill Payne, musician ("Little Feat")
- March 13 - Julia Migenes, soprano
- March 16 - Erik Estrada, actor
- March 16 - Victor Garber, actor
- March 17 - Patrick Duffy, actor
- March 22 - Fanny Ardant, actress
- March 23 - Ric Ocasek, musician ("The Cars")
- March 24 - Nick Lowe, musician
- March 26 - Patrick Süskind, writer
- March 30 - Marcia Ball, blues musician
- March 30 - Lene Lovich, singer
- March 31 - Bethel Enproe Adam, second Angam Baby
April-June
- April 1 - Gil Scott-Heron, musician, composer
- April 3 - Richard Thompson, musician, songwriter
- April 6 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 7 - John Oates, musician (Hall and Oates)
- April 16 - Sandy Hawley, jockey
- April 18 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
- May 4 - John Force, drag racer
- May 9 - Billy Joel, American musician
- May 18 - Rick Wakeman, musician and songwriter (Yes)
- May 18 - Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
- May 19 - Archie Manning, American football player
- May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski, mathematician
- May 26 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor
- May 26 - Hank Williams Jr., singer
- May 31 - Tom Berenger, actor
- June 13 - Ann Druyan, writer
- June 14 - Jimmy Lea, musician (Slade)
- June 14 - Harry Turtledove, historian and novelist
- June 21 - Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
- June 26 - Lewis Koch, artist and photographer
July-September
- July 3 - Jan Smithers, actress (WKRP in Cincinnati)
- July 15 - Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden
- July 17 - Charlie Steiner, sports anchor
- July 22 - Alan Menken, composer
- July 26 - Roger Taylor, musician(Queen)
- August 6 - Alan Campbell, British-Israelite pastor in Ulster
- August 7 - Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
- August 12 - Mark Knopfler, musician
- August 15 - Richard Deacon, sculptor
- August 23 - Shelley Long, actress
- August 25 - Martin Amis, novelist
- August 31 - Richard Gere, actor
- August 31 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 1 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
- September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell author, television presenter, and zookeeper
- September 7 - Gloria Gaynor, singer
- September 14 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese rock singer
- September 15 - Joe Barton, American politician
- September 23 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
- September 27 - Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Famer
October-December
- October 1 - Isaac Bonewits, author, occultist
- October 2 - Lorraine Bracco, actress
- October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, actress
- October 14 - Katy Manning, British actress
- October 20 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
- October 22 - Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (d. June 3, 1990)
- November 5 - Armin Shimerman, actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- November 6 - Arturo Sandoval, Jazz performer
- November 7 - Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
- November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
- November 26 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- November 29 - Alexander Godunov
- December 3 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
- December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
- December 7 - Tom Waits, singer, composer, actor
- December 12 - Bill Nighy, actor
- December 14 - Bill Buckner, baseball player
- December 15 - Don Johnson, American actor
- December 22 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
- December 24 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
- December 25 - Joe Louis Walker, blues musician
Unknown Date
Deaths
- January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, U.S. book publisher
- January 14 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver
- February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian Islamist and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
- March 30 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- May 9 - Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
- May 22 - James Forrestal, US secretary of Navy, Defense
- May 22 - Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday, U.S. author and publisher
- July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
- July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland
- July 18- Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
- August 18 - Paul Mares, jazz musician (b. 1900)
- September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
- September 19 - Will Cuppy, humorist (b. 1884).
- October 27 - Marcel Cerdan, French world champion boxer )air crash) (b. 1916)
- October 27 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (air crash) (b. 1919)
- December 6 - Leadbelly, blues musician
- December 11 - Bhattacharya, K C
- December 16 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director
- December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
- December 28 - Hervey Allen, U.S. author
The Nobel Prize in 1949 was approx. $ 30,000
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