Who Was Alive in 1949
172 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1949
George Bernard ShawAge 93
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 82
Henri MatisseAge 80
Bertrand RussellAge 77
Winston ChurchillAge 75
Carl JungAge 74
Albert SchweitzerAge 74
Thomas MannAge 74
Lise MeitnerAge 71
Joseph StalinAge 71
Albert EinsteinAge 70
Helen KellerAge 69
Pablo PicassoAge 68
Alexander FlemingAge 68
Igor StravinskyAge 67
Coco ChanelAge 66
Eleanor RooseveltAge 65
Harry S. TrumanAge 65
Niels BohrAge 64
Diego RiveraAge 63
Erwin SchrödingerAge 62
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 62
Chiang Kai-shekAge 62
Le CorbusierAge 62
T. S. EliotAge 61
Charlie ChaplinAge 60
Jawaharlal NehruAge 60
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 60
Ho Chi MinhAge 59
Agatha ChristieAge 59
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 59
Charles de GaulleAge 59
Haile SelassieAge 57
J.R.R. TolkienAge 57
Mao ZedongAge 56
Aldous HuxleyAge 55
Nikita KhrushchevAge 55
Buster KeatonAge 54
Golda MeirAge 51
C. S. LewisAge 51
Duke EllingtonAge 50
Ernest HemingwayAge 50
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 50
Alfred HitchcockAge 50
Humphrey BogartAge 50
Werner HeisenbergAge 48
Louis ArmstrongAge 48
Walt DisneyAge 48
Enrico FermiAge 48
HirohitoAge 48
Marlene DietrichAge 48
George OrwellAge 46
Bob HopeAge 46
Robert OppenheimerAge 45
Salvador DalíAge 45
Pablo NerudaAge 45
Jean-Paul SartreAge 44
Hannah ArendtAge 43
Frida KahloAge 42
Rachel CarsonAge 42
Simone de BeauvoirAge 41
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 41
Kwame NkrumahAge 40
Dorothy HodgkinAge 39
Mother TeresaAge 39
Akira KurosawaAge 39
Jacques CousteauAge 39
Ronald ReaganAge 38
Naguib MahfouzAge 38
Alan TuringAge 37
Jackson PollockAge 37
Rosa ParksAge 36
Jesse OwensAge 36
Richard NixonAge 36
Albert CamusAge 36
Gerald FordAge 36
Hedy LamarrAge 35
Orson WellesAge 34
Frank SinatraAge 34
Billie HolidayAge 34
Ingrid BergmanAge 34
Roald DahlAge 33
John F. KennedyAge 32
Ella FitzgeraldAge 32
Indira GandhiAge 32
Ingmar BergmanAge 31
Nelson MandelaAge 31
Richard FeynmanAge 31
Eva PerónAge 30
Edmund HillaryAge 30
Jackie RobinsonAge 30
Rosalind FranklinAge 29
Pope John Paul IIAge 29
Toshiro MifuneAge 29
Stan LeeAge 27
Marlon BrandoAge 25
James BaldwinAge 25
Jimmy CarterAge 25
George H. W. BushAge 25
Patrice LumumbaAge 24
Margaret ThatcherAge 24
B.B. KingAge 24
Malcolm XAge 24
Marilyn MonroeAge 23
Fidel CastroAge 23
Elizabeth IIAge 23
Gabriel García MárquezAge 22
Pope Benedict XVIAge 22
James WatsonAge 21
Andy WarholAge 21
Stanley KubrickAge 21
Maya AngelouAge 21
Che GuevaraAge 21
Vera RubinAge 21
Noam ChomskyAge 21
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 20
Audrey HepburnAge 20
Grace KellyAge 20
Chinua AchebeAge 19
Neil ArmstrongAge 19
Ray CharlesAge 19
Tu YouyouAge 19
James DeanAge 18
Desmond TutuAge 18
Toni MorrisonAge 18
Mikhail GorbachevAge 18
Johnny CashAge 17
Elizabeth TaylorAge 17
Sylvia PlathAge 17
Yoko OnoAge 16
Wole SoyinkaAge 15
Yuri GagarinAge 15
Carl SaganAge 15
Jane GoodallAge 15
Dalai LamaAge 14
Elvis PresleyAge 14
Woody AllenAge 14
Pope FrancisAge 13
Jack NicholsonAge 12
Saddam HusseinAge 12
Kofi AnnanAge 11
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 10
PeléAge 9
Bruce LeeAge 9
John LennonAge 9
Wangari MaathaiAge 9
Bob DylanAge 8
Muhammad AliAge 7
Aretha FranklinAge 7
Jimi HendrixAge 7
Stephen HawkingAge 7
Paul McCartneyAge 7
Muammar GaddafiAge 7
Joe BidenAge 7
Billie Jean KingAge 6
George HarrisonAge 6
Janis JoplinAge 6
Jim MorrisonAge 6
Lech WałęsaAge 6
George LucasAge 5
Aung San Suu KyiAge 4
Bob MarleyAge 4
Freddie MercuryAge 3
Steven SpielbergAge 3
Donald TrumpAge 3
George W. BushAge 3
Bill ClintonAge 3
David BowieAge 2
Hillary ClintonAge 2
Charles IIIAge 1
Haruki MurakamiAge 0
Benjamin NetanyahuAge 0
Born in 1949
Also Born in 1949
Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
American actress (born 1949)
Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
American actress (born 1949)
President of Poland from 2005 to 2010
Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)
Russian singer (born 1949)
American musician and songwriter (born 1949)
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
Spanish filmmaker (born 1949)
President of Chile (2010–2014; 2018–2022)
Also Died in 1949
Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)
Norwegian novelist (1882–1949) and Nobel laureate
American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)
German composer and conductor (1864–1949)
Indian political activist and poet (1879–1949)
German chemist (1884–1949)
Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
American psychologist (1874–1949)
German writer and dissident (1906–1949)
Russian Empire mystic and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)
American filmmaker (1889–1949)
Notable World Events in 1949
Sources
- 1949 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- George Harrison — Wikipedia
- Janis Joplin — Wikipedia
- Jim Morrison — Wikipedia
- Lech Wałęsa — Wikipedia
- George Lucas — Wikipedia
- Aung San Suu Kyi — Wikipedia
- Bob Marley — Wikipedia
- Freddie Mercury — Wikipedia
- Steven Spielberg — Wikipedia
- Donald Trump — Wikipedia
- George W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Bill Clinton — Wikipedia
- David Bowie — Wikipedia
- Hillary Clinton — Wikipedia
- Charles III — Wikipedia
- Haruki Murakami — Wikipedia
- Benjamin Netanyahu — Wikipedia