Mike Schmidt

American professional baseball player, third baseman.

Born September 27th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Dayton.

Michael Beck

American actor.

Born February 4th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Memphis.

Paula Wilcox

English actress.

Born December 13th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Manchester.

Kevin Corcoran

American child actor (1949–2015).

Born June 10th, 1949 in Santa Monica.

Died October 6th, 2015 at 66 years old in Burbank (colorectal cancer).

Steven Williams

American actor.

Born January 7th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Memphis.

Ed King

American rock musician (1949–2018).

Born September 14th, 1949 in Glendale.

Died August 22nd, 2018 at 68 years old in Nashville (cancer). ^[ref]

Francis Rossi

British rock musician.

Born May 29th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Forest Hill.

Simon Kirke

British drummer.

Born July 28th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Lambeth.

Jessica Harper

American actress (born 1949).

Born October 10th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Chicago.

Tom Pryce

Welsh racing driver.

Born June 11th, 1949 in Ruthin.

Died March 5th, 1977 at 27 years old in Kyalami (traffic collision).

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-russian singer, composer, and actress.

Born April 15th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Moscow.

Steve Tisch

American businessman.

Born February 14th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Lakewood.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

President of sri lanka from 2019 to 2022.

Born June 20th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Matara District.

Nicholas Soames

British politician.

Born February 12th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Croydon.

Jarosław Kaczyński

13th prime minister of the republic of poland.

Born June 18th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Warsaw. ^[ref]

Ernie Sabella

American actor.

Born September 19th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Westchester County.

Lech Kaczyński

Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of poland (1949–2010).

Born June 18th, 1949 in Warsaw.

Died April 10th, 2010 at 60 years old in Smolensk (aviation accident). ^[ref]

Bo Xilai

Former politburo member of the chinese communist party.

Born July 3rd, 1949 (age 77 years) in Beijing.

William Lane Craig

American christian apologist and theologian.

Born August 23rd, 1949 (age 76 years) in Peoria.

Jeannie Berlin

American actress.

Born November 1st, 1949 (age 76 years) in Los Angeles.

Peter Friedman

American actor.

Born April 24th, 1949 (age 77 years) in New York City. ^[ref]

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Afghan politician, mujahid and drug trafficker (born 1949).

Born August 1st, 1949 (age 76 years) in Imam Sahib District. ^[ref]

Joni Eareckson Tada

American artist.

Born October 15th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Baltimore.

David A. Johnston

American volcanologist (1949–1980).

Born December 18th, 1949 in Chicago.

Died May 18th, 1980 at 30 years old (1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens).

Leon Redbone

Musician, songwriter, arranger, producer (1949-2019).

Born August 26th, 1949 in Nicosia.

Died May 30th, 2019 at 69 years old in New Hope (dementia). ^[ref]