Famous People Who Died In 1949
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1949. This list includes people like Sarojini Naidu, George Gurdjieff, Wallace Beery, Victor Fleming, Birbal Sahni and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include poets, artists, novelists and political leaders who died in 1949. This list includes people from United States, Germany, India & Russia and many more countries.
Sarojini Naidu13 February 1879, Indian
Poet and Freedom Fighter
George Gurdjieff01 January 1866, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Angela Hitler28 July 1883, Austrian, German
Adolf Hitler's Sister
Wallace Beery01 April 1885, American
Actor
Victor Fleming23 February 1889, American
Film Director
Sigrid Undset20 May 1882, Norwegian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Birbal Sahni1891 AD, Indian
Palaeobotanist
Chairil Anwar26 July 1922, Indonesian
Poet
August Krogh15 November 1874, Danish
Zoophysiologist
Friedrich Bergius11 October 1884, German
Chemist
Elin Pelin08 July 1877, Bulgarian
Writer
Joaquín Torres García28 July 1874, Uruguayan
Artist
Margaret Mitchell08 November 1900, American
Writer of 'Gone with the Wind'
Richard Georg Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer
Nathuram Godse19 May 1910, Indian
Politician, Journalist
Lead BellyMurderer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer
Richard Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer, Conductor, Librettist, Writer
Charles Ponzi03 March 1882, Italian, American
Criminal, Banker
Margaret Mitchell08 November 1900, American
Author
Bill Robinson25 May 1878, American
Film actor, Stage actor
James Forrestal15 February 1892, American
Officer, Banker, Investment banker
Hassan al-Banna14 October 1906, Egyptian
Imam
Edward Thorndike31 August 1874, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Aurora Quezon19 February 1888, Filipino
Nurse
Tom Longboat04 June 1887, Canadian
Athletics competitor
Robert Ripley25 December 1890, American
Anthropologist, Journalist
Amadeo Giannini06 May 1870, American
Banker, Entrepreneur
Elton Mayo26 December 1880, Australian
Psychologist, University teacher, Sociologist
José Clemente Orozco23 November 1883, Mexican
painter
Georgi Dimitrov18 June 1882, Bulgarian, Russian
Bulgarian Politician
Henri Giraud18 January 1879, French
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
James Ensor13 April 1860, Belgian
Painter, Printmaker
Douglas Hyde17 January 1860, Irish
Former President of Ireland
Frank Murphy13 April 1890, American
jurist-consultant, lawyer, politician, judge
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Klaus Mann18 November 1906, American
Novelist, Short story writer
Leonard Bloomfield01 April 1887, American
linguist
E. J. Bellocq1873 AD, American
photographer
Harry Stack Sullivan21 February 1892, American
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Psychologist
James Truslow Adams18 October 1878, American
Historian of the modern age, Historian, Biographer
Axel Munthe31 October 1857, Swedish
Writer, Psychiatrist, Physician, Screenwriter
Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies10 November 1870, Spanish, Italian
Military personnel
Fyodor Tolbukhin16 June 1894, Russian
Military commander
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora06 July 1877, Spanish
Politician, Jurist, Diplomat, Lawyer
Vasily Degtyaryov02 January 1880, Russian
Russian engineer
Kim Gu28 August 1876, South Korean
Politician
Peter Marshall27 May 1902, American
preacher
Hervey Allen08 December 1889, American
Writer, Novelist, Literary critic, Poet,
Bernhard Hoetger04 May 1874, German
Painter, Sculptor, Architect
E.L. Thorndike1874 AD
Academic, Psychologist
A.P. Giannini1870 AD, American
Economist
Huddie William Ledbetter20 January 1888, American
Dr. Peter Marshall (Preacher)27 May 1902, American, Scottish
William Jacob Will Cuppy23 August 1884, American