Rulers:
• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953)
Events:
• William Faulkner (1897-1962): Nobel Prize in Literature.
Births:
• Ardant, Fanny (1949)
• Azéma, Sabine (1949)
• Bridges, Jeff (1949)
• Callow, Simon (1949)
• Carradine, Keith (1949)
• Garber, Victor (1949)
• Gere, Richard (1949)
• Johnson, Don (1949)
• Jones, Trevor (1949)
• Kirby, Bruno (1949-2006)
• Lange, Jessica (1949)
• Madden, John (1949)
• Menzies, Heather (1949-2017)
• Meyers, Nancy (1949)
• Perezagua, Luis (1949)
• Piccolo, Ottavia (1949)
• Savage, John (1949)
• Sihol, Caroline (1949)
• Streep, Meryl (1949)
• Wallace, Randall (1949)
• Weaver, Sigourney (1949)
Deaths:
• Ensor, James (1860-1949)
• Fleming, Victor (1889-1949)
• Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949)
• Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949)
Music:
• Rózsa, Miklós (1907-1995): Madame Bovary (1949)
• Young, Victor (1900-1956): Samson and Delilah (1949)
Art:
• De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978): Via Appia Antica (1945-50)
• Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968): 50 cc d’air de Paris (1949)
Film:
• Little Women (1949)
• Madame Bovary (1949)
• Samson and Delilah (1949)