1949 suicides

German writer (1906–1949)

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

German general (1883-1949)

author and water polo player (1877-1949)

Austrian actress (1901–1949)

Chinese politician (1891-1949)

American writer (1884–1949)

loudspeaker designer, audio company founder (1902–1949)

Japanese novelist, Olympian (1913–1949)

British artist (1874-1949)

Belarusian primitivist painter

Finnish flying ace (1917–1949)

Chinese general (1902–1949)

Ukrainian-French philosopher

actress (1892-1949)

Polish soldier, member of the Armia Krajowa

Welsh pacifist and Member of Parliament (1880-1949)

Italian actress (1907-1949)

American crime fiction author (1909–1949)

actor (1919–1949)