1949 deaths

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

American author and journalist (1900–1949)

German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)

Bulgarian politician (1882-1949)

Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949

Danish physiologist (1874–1949)

German chemist (1884–1949)

American psychologist

German writer (1906–1949)

philosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)

N.Godse (1910-1949)

American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)

Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)

Swedish physician (1857-1949)

first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)

American actor (1885-1949)

Belgian painter (1860–1949)

American linguist (1887–1949)

Korean politician (1876–1949)

Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1894-1949)

Mexican artist (1883–1949)

Spanish lawyer and politician (1877-1949)

First wife of North Korean President Kim Il Sung (1917–1949)

Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)

Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)

Italian footballer (1919–1949)

Director, producer, actor (1883-1949)

French general and politician (1879-1949)

actor (1890-1949)

Indonesian poet (1922–1949)

Australian psychologist and sociologist

American folk and blues musician (1888–1949)

prince of Monaco (1870-1949)

Russian-Soviet wrestler

Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)

American track and field athlete (1874–1949)

German politician (1878-1949)

Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research (1859-1949)

Japanese politician (1866–1949)

Russian composer (1884-1949)

British-American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880-1949)

Hungarian politician (1909–1949)

Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet (1884–1949)

United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)

American diplomat, ran Lend Lease (1900-1949)

German geographer (1865–1949)

Russian architect (1873-1949)

Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette (1882–1949)

Croatian writer and politician (1876-1949)

Czech composer and pedagogue (1870-1949)

Finnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949)

Russian actress (1876-1949)

elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler (1883-1949)

American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1892-1949)

American mathematician (1880–1949)

French microbiologist, the discoverer and founder of bacteriophages and bacteriophage therapy (1873–1949)

New Zealand athlete (1910-1949)

Albanian activist and educator (ca. 1870–1949)

Russian and Soviet writer (1863–1949)