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===January===

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* [[January 2]] – [[Luis Muñoz Marín]] becomes the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]].

* [[January 11]] – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as [[KDKA-TV]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the [[United States]].

* [[June 14]] – [[Albert II (monkey)|Albert II]], a [[rhesus macaque|rhesus monkey]], becomes the first [[primate]] to enter space, on U.S. [[Hermes project]] [[V-2 rocket]] ''Blossom IVB'', but is killed on impact at return.

* [[June 19]] – [[Glenn Dunaway]] wins the [[1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Series inaugural race|inaugural]] [[NASCAR Cup Series]] race at [[Charlotte Speedway]], a 3/4 mile oval in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], but is disqualified due to illegal springs. [[Jim Roper]] is declared the official winner.

* [[June 29]] – [[Apartheid]]: The ''South African Citizenship Act'' suspends the granting of citizenship to [[Commonwealth of Nations]] immigrants after 5 years, and imposes a ban on [[interracial marriage|mixed marriage]]s.

 

* [[August 3]] – The [[Basketball Association of America]] and the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]] finalize the merger that will create the [[National Basketball Association]].

* [[August 5]] – In [[Ecuador]], the 6.8 {{M|l|link=y}} [[1949 Ambato earthquake|Ambato earthquake]] kills more than 5,000, and destroys a number of villages.

* [[August 10]] – the [[Avro Canada C102 Jetliner]] makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.

* [[August 12]] – The [[Fourth Geneva Convention]] is agreed to.

* [[November 26]] &ndash; The [[Indian Constituent Assembly]] adopts India's constitution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm|title=Constitution of India|access-date=2003-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031205192934/http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm|archive-date=2003-12-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]] makes a landmark speech in support of the idea of a European Union, at [[Kingsway Hall]], London - but does not see UK as part of it, "''The British Government have rightly stated that they cannot commit this country to entering any European Union without the agreement of the other members of the British Commonwealth"''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/address_given_by_winston_churchill_london_28_november_1949-en-ce26cc27-30bc-4ec1-b0df-8a572f3dcc0e.html|title=Address given by Winston Churchill (London, 28 November 1949)|work=cvce.eu|access-date=2017-03-28}}</ref>

 

===December===

* [[December 18]] &ndash; In the American [[National Football League]], the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] defeat the [[Los Angeles Rams]] 14–0, to win the championship.

* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|Soviet Leader]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s 70th Birthday is Held in [[Moscow]].

* [[December 29]]

** KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut, becomes the first [[Ultra high frequency]] (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

 

===Date unknown===

* The [[Malta Labour Party]] is founded.

* [[D. R. Kaprekar]] discovers the convergence property of the number [[6174]].

* [[Slavery in Kuwait]] is abolished.

 

[[File:Lauda at 1982 Dutch Grand Prix.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Niki Lauda]]]]

[[File:Simon Crean (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Simon Crean]]]]

* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Joan Burton]], Irish politician

* [[February 2]]

* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Hennie Kuiper]], Dutch cyclist

* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Rasim Delić]], Bosnian military chief of staff and convicted war criminal (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/19/general-rasim-delic-obituary|title=General Rasim Delic obituary|date=19 May 2010|author=Gabriel Partos|website=The Guardian|access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref>

* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Florinda Meza]], Mexican actress, television producer, and screenwriter (best known as Doña Florinda in ''El Chavo del Ocho'')

* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Judith Light]], American actress

* [[March 2]]

** [[Gates McFadden]], American actress, choreographer

** [[Dinesh Gunawardena]], Sri Lankan politician, [[List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka|15th]] [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]]

* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Elijah Harper]], Canadian Aboriginal activist (d. [[2013]])

** [[Ronnie Ray Smith]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2013]])

** [[Michael W. Young]], American geneticist, chronobiologist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]

* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Lene Lovich]], American singer

 

* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Judith Resnik]], American astronaut (d. [[1986]])

* [[April 6]]

** [[Horst Ludwig Störmer]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate

* [[April 7]]

* [[April 18]]

** [[Antônio Fagundes]], Brazilian actor

* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov]], Russian figure skater (d. [[1990]])

* [[April 20]]

* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Alan Titchmarsh]], English gardener

* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Leopoldo Luque]], Argentine soccer player (d. [[2021]])

* [[May 9]]

** [[Billy Joel]], American singer, songwriter and pianist

** [[Jeremy Corbyn]], British politician

** [[Pam Grier]], African-American actress

* [[May 27]]

** [[Jo Ann Harris]], American actress

[[File:Lionel Richie in 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lionel Richie]]]]

[[File:Meryl Streep December 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Meryl Streep]]]]

* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Heather Couper]], British astronomer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|title=COUPER, Heather Anita|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U12025|website=Who's Who 2015|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=2 June 2015}}</ref>

* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Wendy Sherman]], American diplomat and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Wendy R. Sherman |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/sherman-wendy-r |publisher=U.S. Department of State, [[Office of the Historian]] |date=September 21, 2011 |access-date=November 16, 2015}}</ref>

** [[Harry Turtledove]], American historian, novelist

** [[Papa Wemba]], Congolese [[soukous]] musician (d. [[2016]])

* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Robbin Thompson]], American singer, songwriter (d. [[2015]])

* [[June 18]]

** [[Lionel Richie]], African-American urban musician

* [[June 21]]

** [[Shane Molloy]], Australian rules footballer

** [[Stuart Pearson]], English football player

** [[Jane Urquhart]], Canadian author

* [[June 22]]

** [[Alan Osmond]], American pop singer

** [[Meryl Streep]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Meryl Streep |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/meryl-streep |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en |date=16 February 2019}}</ref>

* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Jon McLachlan]], New Zealand rugby union player

* [[June 25]]

** [[Lalith Kaluperuma]], Sri Lankan test cricketer and ODI cricketer

** [[Patrick Tambay]], French racing driver (d. [[2022]])

** [[Yoon Joo-sang]], South Korean actor

* [[June 26]]

** [[Uwe Kliemann]], German football player and coach

** [[Norm Mitchell]], Australian rules footballer

 

===July===

* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Morten Olsen]], Danish football player, manager

* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Beverly Burns]], American pilot, first woman to captain a Boeing 747

* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Phil Lynott]], Irish rock musician (d. [[1986]])

* [[August 21]]

* [[September 16]]

** [[Ed Begley Jr.]], American actor, environmentalist (''[[St. Elsewhere]]'')

** [[Chrisye]], Indonesian singer (d. [[2007]])

* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Didith Reyes]], Filipina singer (d. [[2008]])

** [[Chris Dobson]], British chemist (d. [[2019]])

** [[Sigourney Weaver]], American actress

* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Carlos the Jackal]], Venezuelan-born international terrorist

* [[October 17]]

** [[Owen Arthur]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Barbados]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |title=OWEN ARTHUR: From St Peter to Barbados |url=https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/246890/owen-arthur-st-peter-barbados |website=NationNews Barbados |publisher=The Nation Publishing Co. Limited |location=Fontabelle, St. Michael, Barbados |date=27 July 2020 |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728004705/https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/246890/owen-arthur-st-peter-barbados |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], 2-time prime minister of Israel

* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Arsène Wenger]], French football (soccer) manager

* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Antonio Carpio]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist

* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Caitlyn Jenner]], American transgender track and field athlete, reality star

* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Pramod Mahajan]], Indian politician, strategist (d. [[2006]])

* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Ismail Petra of Kelantan]], sultan of Kelantan (d. [[2019]])

* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Paola Balducci]], Italian politician, lawyer

* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[John Boehner]], Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Ahmed Zaki (actor)|Ahmed Zaki]], Egyptian actor (d. [[2005]])

* [[December 1]]

** [[Pablo Escobar]], Colombian drug lord (k. [[1993]])

* [[December 3]]

** [[John Akii-Bua]], Ugandan hurdler (d. [[1997]])

* [[December 13]]

** [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]], English actor

* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Bill Buckner]], American baseball player (d. [[2019]])

* [[December 15]]

** [[Don Johnson]], American actor (''[[Miami Vice]]'')

* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Billy Gibbons]], American guitarist ([[ZZ Top]])

* [[December 17]]

** [[Tommy Handley]], British radio comedian (b. [[1892]])

** [[Tom Longboat]], Canadian Olympic runner (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tom-longboat Tom Longboat]</ref>

* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Nelson Doubleday]], American publisher (b. [[1889]])

* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Eduardo Barron]], Spanish engineer, pilot (b. [[1888]])

** [[Harry Stack Sullivan]], American psychiatrist (b. [[1892]])

** [[Joaquín Turina]], Spanish composer (b. [[1882]])

* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[William Wright (actor)|William Wright]], American actor (b. [[1911]])

* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Joseph Cawthorn]], American actor (b. [[1868]])

* [[May 22]]

** [[James Forrestal]], U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (b. [[1892]])

* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Jan Frans De Boever]], Belgian painter (b. [[1872]])

* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Ripley]], American creator of ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' (b. [[1890]])

===June===

 

[[File:Themistoklis Sofoulis.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Themistoklis Sofoulis]]]]

* [[June 8]]

** [[Naguib el-Rihani]], Egyptian actor (b. [[1889]])

* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Maria Cebotari]], Romanian soprano, actress (b. [[1910]])

* [[June 10]]

* [[July 18]]

** [[Ted Alley]], Australian footballer (b. [[1881]])

** [[Vítězslav Novák]], Czech composer (b. [[1870]])

* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Frank Murphy]], American politician and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://www.oyez.org/justices/frank_murphy Frank Murphy]</ref>

** [[Nils Östensson]], Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. [[1918]])

** [[Ada Baker]], Australian soprano, singing teacher and vaudeville star (b. [[1866]])

* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Linda Arvidson]], American actress (b. [[1884]])

* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Ellery Harding Clark]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1874]])

* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[José Clemente Orozco]], Mexican painter (b. [[1883]])

* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Richard Strauss]], German composer (''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'') (b. [[1864]])

* [[September 12]]

** [[Harry Burleigh]], American composer (b. [[1866]])

[[File:Elena Arizmendi ca 1916.PNG|thumbnail|100px|[[Elena Arizmendi Mejía]]]]

[[File:Hazhir.jpg|thumbnail|100px|[[Abdolhossein Hazhir]]]]

* November &ndash; [[María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide]], head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b. [[1872]])

* [[November 3]]

** [[Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]] (b. [[1870]])

** [[Ignatius Stelletskii]], Soviet archaeologist, historian and researcher (b. [[1878]])

* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Nathuram Godse]], assassin of [[Mohandas Gandhi]] (b. [[1910]]), and his accomplice, [[Narayan Apte]] (b. [[1911]])

* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[James Ensor]], Belgian painter (b. [[1860]])

* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria]] (b. [[1859]])

* [[November 25]]