1949: The Year in People

What happened in 1949

1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.

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Died in 1949

• Charles Ponzi1882–1949 · Italian businessman and con artist
• Frank Morgan1890–1949 · American actor
• Wallace Beery1885–1949 · American actor
• Bill Robinson1878–1949 · American dancer and actor
• Frank Murphy1890–1949 · American judge
• Tom Longboat1886–1949 · Canadian distance runner
• Harry Burleigh1866–1949 · American opera singer
• Damaskinos of Athens1891–1949 · Greek politician and priest
• Alexey Shchusev1873–1949 · Russian architect
• Hans Pfitzner1869–1949 · German composer and conductor
• Béla Balázs1884–1949 · Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet
• August Krogh1874–1949 · Danish physiologist