| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| James Truslow Adams |
Author |
18-Oct-1878 |
18-May-1949 |
The Epic of America |
| Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
Government |
6-Jul-1877 |
18-Feb-1949 |
1st President of the Second Spanish Republic |
| Hervey Allen |
Poet |
8-Dec-1889 |
28-Dec-1949 |
Ballads of the Border |
| Mary Antin |
Author |
1881 |
15-May-1949 |
The Promised Land |
| Hassan al-Banna |
Activist |
14-Oct-1906 |
12-Feb-1949 |
Founder of The Muslim Brotherhood |
| Philip Barry |
Playwright |
18-Jun-1896 |
3-Dec-1949 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Wallace Beery |
Actor |
1-Apr-1885 |
15-Apr-1949 |
Grand Hotel |
| Friedrich Bergius |
Chemist |
11-Oct-1884 |
30-Mar-1949 |
Hydrogenation of coal |
| Clifford K. Berryman |
Cartoonist |
2-Apr-1869 |
11-Dec-1949 |
Political cartoonist |
| Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
| Roman Bohnen |
Actor |
24-Nov-1894 |
24-Feb-1949 |
Of Mice and Men |
| Felix Bressart |
Actor |
2-Mar-1892 |
17-Mar-1949 |
To Be or Not to Be |
| Buddy Clark |
Singer |
26-Jul-1912 |
1-Oct-1949 |
How Are Things in Glocca Mora |
| John Robert Clynes |
Politician |
27-Mar-1869 |
23-Oct-1949 |
UK Home Secretary, 1929-31 |
| Harry Davenport |
Actor |
19-Jan-1866 |
9-Aug-1949 |
Gone with the Wind |
| Richard Dix |
Actor |
18-Jul-1893 |
20-Sep-1949 |
Cimarron |
| James Ensor |
Painter |
13-Apr-1860 |
19-Nov-1949 |
Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 |
| Victor Fleming |
Film Director |
23-Feb-1883 |
6-Jan-1949 |
Gone With the Wind |
| James V. Forrestal |
Government |
15-Feb-1892 |
22-May-1949 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49 |
| A. P. Giannini |
Business |
6-May-1870 |
3-Jun-1949 |
Founder of Bank of America |
| Nathuram Vinayak Godse |
Assassin |
19-May-1910 |
15-Nov-1949 |
Assassinated Gandhi |
| John Oliver La Gorce |
Explorer |
1880 |
1949 |
Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor |
| Thomas P. Gore |
Politician |
10-Dec-1870 |
16-Mar-1949 |
Blind US Senator from Oklahoma |
| G. I. Gurdjieff |
Philosopher |
1877 |
29-Oct-1949 |
Esoteric philosopher, The Fourth Way |
| Will Hay |
Actor |
6-Dec-1888 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Ask a Policeman |
| Julius P. Heil |
Politician |
24-Jul-1876 |
30-Nov-1949 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1939-43 |
| Helen Hokinson |
Cartoonist |
29-Jun-1893 |
1-Nov-1949 |
Cartoonist for The New Yorker |
| Bunk Johnson |
Jazz Musician |
27-Dec-1889 |
7-Jul-1949 |
New Orleans jazz trumpeter |
| August Krogh |
Scientist |
15-Nov-1874 |
13-Sep-1949 |
Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen |
| Leadbelly |
Guitarist |
29-Jan-1885 |
6-Dec-1949 |
Goodnight Irene |
| Fritz Leiber |
Actor |
31-Jan-1882 |
14-Oct-1949 |
Shakespearean actor |
| Maurice Maeterlinck |
Playwright |
29-Aug-1862 |
6-May-1949 |
Pelléas et Mélisande |
| Elton Mayo |
Psychologist |
26-Dec-1880 |
7-Sep-1949 |
Student of Industrial Civilization |
| Margaret Mitchell |
Novelist |
8-Nov-1900 |
16-Aug-1949 |
Gone With the Wind |
| Frank Morgan |
Actor |
1-Jun-1890 |
18-Sep-1949 |
The Wizard of Oz |
| Frank Murphy |
Judge |
13-Apr-1890 |
19-Jul-1949 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1940-49 |
| José Clemente Orozco |
Painter |
23-Nov-1883 |
7-Sep-1949 |
20th c. Mexican muralist |
| Maria Ouspenskaya |
Actor |
29-Jul-1876 |
3-Dec-1949 |
Waterloo Bridge |
| Charles Ponzi |
Criminal |
3-Mar-1882 |
18-Jun-1949 |
Get-rich-quick schemes |
| Craig Reynolds |
Actor |
15-Jul-1907 |
22-Oct-1949 |
The Fatal Hour |
| Robert L. Ripley |
Curator |
25-Dec-1890 |
27-May-1949 |
Believe It or Not! |
| Bill Robinson |
Dancer |
25-May-1878 |
25-Nov-1949 |
Bojangles |
| Wiley Rutledge |
Judge |
20-Jul-1894 |
10-Sep-1949 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1943-49 |
| Edward Stettinius, Jr. |
Government |
22-Oct-1900 |
31-Oct-1949 |
US Secretary of State, 1944-45 |
| Richard Strauss |
Composer |
11-Jun-1864 |
8-Sep-1949 |
Also sprach Zarathustra |
| Slim Summerville |
Actor |
10-Jul-1892 |
6-Jan-1949 |
The Front Page |
| Sigrid Undset |
Author |
20-May-1882 |
10-Jun-1949 |
Kristin Lavransdåtter |
| Ray Lyman Wilbur |
Educator |
13-Apr-1875 |
26-Jun-1949 |
President of Stanford University, 1916-43 |
| Sam Wood |
Film Director |
10-Jul-1883 |
22-Sep-1949 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
