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In the year 1949

1,591 Notable birthdays

Cliff Williams

English musician.

Born December 14th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Romford.

Leslie Easterbrook

American actress.

Born July 29th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Los Angeles.

Hamida Djandoubi

Tunisian murderer (1949–1977).

Born September 22nd, 1949 in Tunis.

Died September 10th, 1977 at 27 years old in Penitential Center of Marseille (decapitation).

Tarek Fatah

Pakistan-born canadian islamism critic and non-fiction writer.

Born November 20th, 1949 in Karachi. [ref]

Died April 24th, 2023 at 73 years old in Toronto (cancer). [ref]

Lyle Alzado

American professional football player and actor (1949–1992).

Born April 3rd, 1949 in Brooklyn.

Died May 14th, 1992 at 43 years old in Portland (brain cancer).

Martin Amis

British novelist.

Born August 25th, 1949 in Oxford.

Died May 19th, 2023 at 73 years old in Lake Worth Beach (esophageal cancer). [ref]

Anson Williams

American actor and director.

Born September 25th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Los Angeles.

Kevin Sullivan

American professional wrestler (1949–2024).

Born October 26th, 1949 in Cambridge. [ref]

Died August 9th, 2024 at 74 years old in Concord (thrombosis). [ref]

Adrian Belew

American rock musician.

Born December 23rd, 1949 (age 76 years) in Covington.

Trevor Horn

British record producer and musician.

Born July 15th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Houghton-le-Spring.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Thai politician.

Born July 26th, 1949 (age 76 years) in San Kamphaeng.

Judith Resnik

American engineer and astronaut (1949–1986).

Born April 5th, 1949 in Akron.

Died January 28th, 1986 at 36 years old in Cape Canaveral (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).

Bob Backlund

American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and actor.

Born August 14th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Princeton.

Steve King

Us representative for iowa (1949-).

Born May 28th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Storm Lake.

Paul Orndorff

American professional wrestler (1949-2021).

Born October 29th, 1949 in Brandon.

Died July 12th, 2021 at 71 years old in Fayetteville.

Bill Buckner

American baseball player.

Born December 14th, 1949 in Vallejo.

Died May 27th, 2019 at 69 years old in Boise (Lewy body dementia). [ref]

Pramod Mahajan

Indian politician (1949-2006).

Born October 30th, 1949 in Mahabubnagar.

Died May 3rd, 2006 at 56 years old in Mumbai.

Tommy Ramone

Hungarian-american drummer (1949–2014).

Born January 29th, 1949 in Budapest.

Died July 11th, 2014 at 65 years old in Ridgewood (cholangiocarcinoma). [ref]

Yasuko Namba

Japanese mountain climber (1949–1996).

Born February 2nd, 1949 in Tokyo.

Died May 11th, 1996 at 47 years old in Mount Everest.

Robert Berdella

American serial killer (1949–1992).

Born January 31st, 1949 in Cuyahoga Falls.

Died October 8th, 1992 at 43 years old in Jefferson City (congenital heart disease).

Ranil Wickremesinghe

9th president of sri lanka from july 2022 to september 2024.

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

Pamela Reed

American actress.

Born April 2nd, 1949 (age 77 years) in Tacoma.

Abdullah Öcalan

Founder of the kurdistan workers' party (pkk).

Born April 4th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Ömerli.

Caroline Munro

English actress and model.

Born January 16th, 1949 (age 77 years) in Windsor.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

6th president of indonesia (2004—2014).

Born September 9th, 1949 (age 76 years) in East Java, Pacitan. [ref]

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