Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Ugandan-born british journalist and author.

Born December 10th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Kampala.

Joe Royle

Former professional association footballer and manager (born 1949).

Born April 8th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Liverpool.

Amin Maalouf

Francophone lebanese writer based in frances.

Born February 25th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Beirut.

Gary Grubbs

American actor.

Born November 14th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Amory.

Max Azria

French-tunisian fashion designer.

Born January 1st, 1949 in Sfax.

Died May 6th, 2019 at 70 years old in Houston (lung cancer). ^[ref]

Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

American animator.

Born October 25th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Fresno.

Joe Regalbuto

American actor.

Born August 24th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Brooklyn.

Terry Zwigoff

American filmmaker.

Born May 18th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Appleton.

Cotter Smith

American stage, film and television actor.

Born May 29th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Washington, D.C..

Kim Su-mi

South korean actress (1949–2024).

Born September 3rd, 1949 in Gunsan.

Died October 25th, 2024 at 75 years old in The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital (hyperglycemia). ^[ref]

Sue Jones-Davies

British actor and singer.

Born January 1st, 1949 (age 77 years) in Wales.

Susan Gordon

American child actress (1949–2011).

Born July 27th, 1949 in Saint Paul.

Died December 11th, 2011 at 62 years old in Teaneck (cancer). ^[ref]

Arthur Kane

American musician (1949-2004).

Born February 3rd, 1949 in New York City, The Bronx.

Died July 13th, 2004 at 55 years old in Los Angeles (leukemia).

Brian Yuzna

American film maker.

Born August 30th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Manila.

Daniel Pipes

American historian, writer, journalist and political scientist (born 1949).

Born September 9th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Boston.

Ruud Krol

Dutch football player.

Born March 24th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Amsterdam.

Philip Casnoff

American actor.

Born August 3rd, 1949 (age 76 years) in Philadelphia.

Eugene de Kock

South african police officer, convicted for several political murders as head of the secret police unit c10 (vlakplaas) during apartheid, today a free man after serving a prison sentence.

Born January 29th, 1949 (age 77 years) in South Africa.

Sonja Kristina

English singer.

Born April 14th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Brentwood.

Ian Livingstone

Fantasy writer and entrepreneur.

Born December 29th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Prestbury.

Janet Maslin

American journalist and critic.

Born August 12th, 1949 (age 76 years) in New York City.

Greg Burson

American voice actor (1949-2008).

Born June 29th, 1949 in Anaheim.

Died July 22nd, 2008 at 59 years old in Los Angeles (diabetes). ^[ref]

Svetislav Pešić

Serbian basketball player and coach.

Born August 28th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Novi Sad.

Brahim Ghali

Sahrawi diplomat and politician.

Born August 19th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Smara.

Sally Potter

English film director and screenwriter (born 1949).

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