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Born in 1949

2,174 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Kęstutis Šapka

    athletics competitor

    1949–2025 · aged 75

    November 15 · 1949

    No external source identified

  2. Christian Dalger

    association football coach, association football player

    1949–2023 · aged 73

    December 18 · 1949

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  3. Ivo Wortmann

    association football coach, association football player

    77 years old

    March 10 · 1949

    No external source identified

  4. Michal Ajvaz

    poet, opinion journalist

    76 years old

    October 30 · 1949

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  5. Atanas Mihaylov

    association football player, association football coach

    1949–2006 · aged 57

    July 5 · 1949

    Source: FBref

  6. Karel Lismont

    marathon runner, long-distance runner

    77 years old

    March 8 · 1949

    Source: World Athletics database

  7. Thomas John Rodi

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    77 years old

    March 27 · 1949

    No external source identified

  8. Stasys Eidrigevičius

    exlibrist, draftsperson

    77 years old

    July 24 · 1949

    Source: SNAC

  9. Anne-Marie Lizin

    professor, politician

    1949–2015 · aged 66

    January 5 · 1949

    Source: Babelio

  10. Ali Gagarin

    association football player, diplomat

    1949–2025 · aged 75

    April 1 · 1949

    No external source identified

  11. Augustin Dumay

    musician, violinist

    77 years old

    January 17 · 1949

    Source: SNAC

  12. Ioan Mircea Pașcu

    political scientist, politician

    77 years old

    February 17 · 1949

    No external source identified

  13. Jean-Marie Guéhenno

    political scientist, university teacher

    76 years old

    October 30 · 1949

    Source: Davos 2014 Participant List

  14. Michael Žantovský

    lyricist, psychologist

    77 years old

    January 3 · 1949

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  15. John Haglelgam

    politician

    1949–2024 · aged 75

    August 10 · 1949

    No external source identified

  16. Francisco Pascual Obama Asue

    minister, politician

    77 years old

    April 21 · 1949

    No external source identified

  17. Karen Dawisha

    opinion journalist, university teacher

    1949–2018 · aged 68

    December 2 · 1949

    No external source identified

  18. Salwa Bakr

    novelist, writer

    Born 1949

    1949

    Source: Korean Authority File

  19. Fariborz Lachini

    film score composer, manufacturer

    77 years old

    August 25 · 1949

    Source: Musicalics

  20. Maka Chichua*

    physician, make-up artist

    Date disputed

    October 10 · 1949

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia

  21. Roger-Pol Droit

    researcher, journalist

    77 years old

    February 6 · 1949

    No external source identified

  22. Maria de Belém Roseira

    politician

    77 years old

    July 28 · 1949

    No external source identified

  23. Yuri Balashov

    chess player, association football coach

    77 years old

    March 12 · 1949

    No external source identified

  24. Ignazio Visco

    banker, economist

    76 years old

    November 21 · 1949

    Source: Davos 2014 Participant List

  25. Per Røntved

    association football player

    1949–2023

    January 27 · 1949

    No external source identified

  26. Pierre Amoyal

    musician, violinist

    77 years old

    June 22 · 1949

    Source: SNAC

  27. José Carlos Schwarz

    musician, poet

    1949–1977 · aged 27

    December 6 · 1949

    No external source identified

  28. Betulio González

    boxer

    76 years old

    October 24 · 1949

    No external source identified

  29. Barbara Blida

    politician, civil engineer

    1949–2007 · aged 57

    December 3 · 1949

    Source: bs.sejm.gov.pl

  30. Xie Zhenhua

    politician

    Born 1949

    1949

    Source: China Vitae

  31. Morio Kazama

    rakugoka, seiyū

    77 years old

    April 26 · 1949

    No external source identified

  32. Carlos Soria

    politician, lawyer

    1949–2012 · aged 62

    March 1 · 1949

    Source: directoriolegislativo.org

  33. Giuseppe Sabadini

    association football coach, association football player

    77 years old

    March 26 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  34. István Vágó

    chemical engineer, television presenter

    1949–2023 · aged 74

    February 14 · 1949

    Source: Discogs

  35. Jose Romeo Lazo

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    77 years old

    January 23 · 1949

    No external source identified

  36. Ulla Schmidt

    politician

    77 years old

    June 13 · 1949

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  37. Vladan Batić

    politician, lawyer

    1949–2010 · aged 61

    July 27 · 1949

    No external source identified

  38. Borys Tarasyuk

    diplomat, politician

    77 years old

    January 1 · 1949

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  39. Jean Hatzfeld

    writer, journalist

    77 years old

    September 14 · 1949

    Source: Who's Who in France

  40. Aram Gaspar Sargsyan

    politician

    77 years old

    August 14 · 1949

    No external source identified

  41. Stanley Dziedzic

    amateur wrestler

    77 years old

    April 5 · 1949

    No external source identified

  42. Abdujalil Samadov

    politician

    1949–2004 · aged 54

    November 4 · 1949

    No external source identified

  43. Þórarinn Eldjárn

    translator, writer

    77 years old

    August 22 · 1949

    No external source identified

  44. Montxo Armendáriz

    director, screenwriter

    77 years old

    January 27 · 1949

    Source: filmportal.de

  45. Dil Kumari Bhandari

    politician

    77 years old

    May 14 · 1949

    No external source identified

  46. John Berg

    television actor, film actor

    1949–2007 · aged 58

    April 5 · 1949

    No external source identified

  47. Joan Clos

    diplomat, physician

    77 years old

    June 29 · 1949

    No external source identified

  48. Erato Kozakou Marcoullis

    diplomat, politician

    77 years old

    August 3 · 1949

    Source: rulers.org

  49. Dušan Galis

    association football coach, association football player

    76 years old

    November 24 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  50. Aleksandar Tomov

    amateur wrestler

    77 years old

    April 3 · 1949

    No external source identified

  51. Lu Yao

    writer

    1949–1992 · aged 42

    December 3 · 1949

    No external source identified

  52. Témime Lahzami

    association football player

    77 years old

    January 1 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  53. Kensaku Morita

    singer, politician

    76 years old

    December 16 · 1949

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

  54. Vladimír Martinec

    ice hockey player, ice hockey coach

    76 years old

    December 22 · 1949

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  55. James Judd

    conductor, musician

    76 years old

    October 30 · 1949

    Source: SNAC

  56. Arno Steffenhagen

    association football player

    77 years old

    September 24 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  57. Wilhelm Kreuz

    association football coach, association football player

    77 years old

    May 29 · 1949

    Source: FBref

  58. Henri Proglio

    entrepreneur, businessperson

    77 years old

    June 29 · 1949

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  59. Kim Seong-kon

    journalist, film critic

    77 years old

    September 9 · 1949

    No external source identified

  60. Santiago Ramos

    actor, film actor

    77 years old

    August 1 · 1949

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

  61. Sergio Martini

    mountaineer

    77 years old

    July 29 · 1949

    No external source identified

  62. Muhammad Mumuni

    diplomat, lawyer

    77 years old

    July 28 · 1949

    No external source identified

  63. Raúl Castronovo

    association football player

    1949–2026 · aged 77

    January 11 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  64. Patrick Chauvel

    actor, photographer

    77 years old

    April 7 · 1949

    Source: Freebase Data Dumps

  65. Jiří Schmitzer

    Liedermacher, poet

    76 years old

    October 25 · 1949

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  66. Lazăr Comănescu

    economist, minister

    77 years old

    June 4 · 1949

    No external source identified

  67. László Mérő

    video game producer, psychologist

    76 years old

    December 11 · 1949

    No external source identified

  68. Enrique Scalabroni

    engineer

    76 years old

    October 20 · 1949

    No external source identified

  69. Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen

    politician

    76 years old

    October 21 · 1949

    Source: stortinget.no

  70. Abdel Rahman Shalgham

    author, politician

    77 years old

    January 22 · 1949

    No external source identified

  71. Babatunde Osotimehin

    pathologist, minister

    1949–2017 · aged 68

    February 6 · 1949

    No external source identified

  72. Peggy Michel

    tennis player

    77 years old

    February 2 · 1949

    Source: 100 years of Wimbledon

  73. Lakis Nikolaou

    surgeon, association football player

    77 years old

    July 17 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  74. Kalkot Mataskelekele

    politician, judge

    77 years old

    April 24 · 1949

    No external source identified

  75. Willi Reimann

    association football coach, association football player

    76 years old

    December 24 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  76. John Blankenstein

    association football referee

    1949–2006 · aged 57

    February 12 · 1949

    No external source identified

  77. Claudia Kolb

    coach, swimmer

    76 years old

    December 19 · 1949

    No external source identified

  78. Inez Fung

    climatologist

    77 years old

    April 11 · 1949

    Source: fsemf8fall2011.umwblogs.org

  79. Pierre Bayonne

    association football player

    77 years old

    June 11 · 1949

    Source: FBref

  80. Olga Sedakova

    writer, ethnographer

    76 years old

    December 26 · 1949

    Source: Russian literature of the 20th century. Volume 3, 2005

  81. Suleiman Mahmoud

    military personnel

    1949–2020

    1949

    No external source identified

  82. Yann Queffélec

    writer

    77 years old

    September 4 · 1949

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  83. Marie-France Hirigoyen

    family therapist, essayist

    Born 1949

    1949

    Source: datos.bne.es

  84. Vladimir Lutchenko

    ice hockey player

    77 years old

    January 2 · 1949

    No external source identified

  85. Anne Makinda

    politician, minister

    77 years old

    July 26 · 1949

    No external source identified

  86. Sofa Landver

    psychologist, politician

    76 years old

    October 28 · 1949

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  87. Carlos María Abascal Carranza

    civil servant, lawyer

    1949–2008 · aged 59

    May 14 · 1949

    No external source identified

  88. Luz Salgado

    journalist, politician

    77 years old

    July 3 · 1949

    Source: infogob.jne.gob.pe

  89. Edvard Hoem

    theatre director, playwright

    77 years old

    March 10 · 1949

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  90. Eliška Balzerová

    film actor, actor

    77 years old

    May 25 · 1949

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  91. Luís Miguel Cintra

    actor, screenwriter

    77 years old

    April 29 · 1949

    Source: IMDb

  92. Saturnino Arrúa

    association football player, association football coach

    77 years old

    April 7 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  93. Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    77 years old

    January 27 · 1949

    Source: infodecom.net

  94. Reiner Hollmann

    association football player, association football coach

    77 years old

    September 30 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  95. Zyta Gilowska

    minister, economist

    1949–2016 · aged 66

    July 7 · 1949

    No external source identified

  96. Andrej Hryc

    actor, film producer

    1949–2021 · aged 71

    November 30 · 1949

    Source: filmportal.de

  97. Farzaneh Kaboli

    actor, choreographer

    77 years old

    May 2 · 1949

    No external source identified

  98. Hildegard Falck

    athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

    77 years old

    June 8 · 1949

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  99. Zbigniew Gut

    association football player

    1949–2010 · aged 60

    April 17 · 1949

    Source: FBref

  100. Aytaç Arman

    actor

    1949–2019 · aged 69

    June 22 · 1949

    No external source identified

  101. Michel Roger

    politician, university teacher

    77 years old

    March 9 · 1949

    No external source identified

  102. Abdul Karim al-Kabariti

    politician, economist

    76 years old

    December 15 · 1949

    No external source identified

  103. Jero Wacik

    politician

    77 years old

    April 24 · 1949

    Source: pemiluAPI

  104. Oleg Belaventsev

    politician

    77 years old

    September 15 · 1949

    No external source identified

  105. Mike Estep

    tennis player

    77 years old

    July 19 · 1949

    Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website

  106. Tim Crooks

    rower

    77 years old

    May 12 · 1949

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  107. György Gedó

    welder, coach

    77 years old

    April 23 · 1949

    No external source identified

  108. Kai Eide

    diplomat, politician

    77 years old

    February 28 · 1949

    Source: Records of persons of interest

  109. Jean Kalala N'Tumba

    association football player

    1949–2021 · aged 72

    January 7 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  110. John McAreavey

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    77 years old

    February 2 · 1949

    Source: Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

  111. Caro Lucas

    academic, inventor

    1949–2010 · aged 60

    September 4 · 1949

    No external source identified

  112. Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    76 years old

    November 22 · 1949

    No external source identified

  113. Mahbubey Alam

    lawyer

    1949–2020 · aged 71

    February 17 · 1949

    Source: Find a Grave

  114. Grigory Karasin

    diplomat, statesperson

    77 years old

    August 23 · 1949

    No external source identified

  115. Suhaila Seddiqi*

    politician, military personnel

    Date disputed

    March 11 · 1949

    No external source identified

  116. Björn Ranelid

    writer, journalist

    77 years old

    May 21 · 1949

    No external source identified

  117. Isabel Celaá

    diplomat, secondary school teacher

    77 years old

    May 23 · 1949

    Source: congreso.es

  118. Roman Dmitriyev

    coach, politician

    1949–2010 · aged 60

    March 7 · 1949

    No external source identified

  119. Ángel Gabilondo

    university teacher, writer

    77 years old

    March 1 · 1949

    Source: asambleamadrid.es

  120. Jeff Borowiak

    tennis player

    77 years old

    September 25 · 1949

    Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website

  121. Marie-France Dufour

    singer

    1949–1990 · aged 41

    August 8 · 1949

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  122. Viktor Kupreichik

    chess player

    1949–2017 · aged 67

    July 3 · 1949

    No external source identified

  123. Malika Mokeddem

    physician, physician writer

    77 years old

    October 5 · 1949

    Source: Babelio

  124. Efua Dorkenoo

    human rights defender, writer

    1949–2014 · aged 65

    September 6 · 1949

    No external source identified

  125. José Salcedo

    film editor

    1949–2017

    1949

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  126. Patrick Proisy

    sports executive, tennis player

    77 years old

    September 10 · 1949

    Source: Who's Who in France

  127. Chris Baillieu

    rower

    76 years old

    December 12 · 1949

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  128. Pierre Vimont

    politician, diplomat

    77 years old

    June 15 · 1949

    No external source identified

  129. Heini Hemmi

    alpine skier

    77 years old

    January 17 · 1949

    No external source identified

  130. Jacques Seetainn

    table tennis player

    1949–2020 · aged 71

    March 18 · 1949

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées

  131. Kim Kwan-jin

    politician

    77 years old

    August 27 · 1949

    No external source identified

  132. Hiroyuki Wakabayashi

    architect

    1949–2026

    1949

    Source: Union List of Artist Names

  133. Zbigniew Wassermann

    politician

    1949–2010 · aged 60

    September 17 · 1949

    No external source identified

  134. Adrián Paenza

    science communicator, university teacher

    77 years old

    May 9 · 1949

    Source: jotdown.es

  135. Michaël Levinas

    composer, pianist

    77 years old

    April 18 · 1949

    Source: Discogs

  136. Melanie Smith

    show jumper

    77 years old

    September 23 · 1949

    No external source identified

  137. Celia Villalobos

    politician

    77 years old

    April 18 · 1949

    No external source identified

  138. Elias Camsek Chin

    politician, soldier

    76 years old

    October 10 · 1949

    No external source identified

  139. Stanley Greene

    photographer, journalist

    1949–2017 · aged 68

    February 14 · 1949

    Source: Luminous-Lint

  140. Bo Karlsson

    association football player, association football referee

    76 years old

    October 12 · 1949

    No external source identified

  141. Daniel Jeandupeux

    association football coach, association football player

    77 years old

    February 7 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  142. Jean Rolin

    writer, novelist

    77 years old

    June 14 · 1949

    No external source identified

  143. Helmut Bellingrodt

    sport shooter

    77 years old

    July 10 · 1949

    No external source identified

  144. Horst Wohlers

    association football coach, association football player

    77 years old

    August 6 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

  145. Aleksandr Sokolov

    archivist, minister

    77 years old

    August 8 · 1949

    No external source identified

  146. Adrian Elrick

    association football player

    77 years old

    September 29 · 1949

    Source: worldfootball.net

  147. Boris Grachevsky

    actor, film producer

    1949–2021 · aged 71

    March 18 · 1949

    Source: Discogs

  148. Osamu Fujimura

    politician

    76 years old

    November 3 · 1949

    No external source identified

  149. James Millns

    figure skater, ice dancer

    77 years old

    January 13 · 1949

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  150. Bozhil Kolev

    association football player, association football coach

    77 years old

    May 20 · 1949

    Source: Transfermarkt

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