page_title: 1949
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1949 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: Veronica Cartwright
context_page_description: 1949 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: April 1
  Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, political consultant, and convicted felon
  Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
  Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
  Gil Scott-Heron, African-American musician, composer and activist (d. 2011)
  April 2 – Pamela Reed, American actress
  April 3 – Richard Thompson, English musician, songwriter
  April 4 – Parveen Babi, Bollywood actress (d. 2005)
  April 5 – Judith Resnik, American Astronaut (Challenger Disaster) (d. 1986)
  April 6 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  April 7
  Mitch Daniels, American academic administrator, businessman, author, and politician
  Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish bishop (d. 2016)
  April 8
  Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (d. 2018)
  Brenda Russell, American-Canadian singer, songwriter and keyboardist
  Fanie de Jager, South African operatic tenor
  April 10 – Daniel Mangeas, French bicycle commentator
  April 11 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer, director (d. 2011)
  April 13 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American writer (d. 2011)
  April 14 – John Shea, American actor
  April 15
  Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer
  Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, Polish-born writer
  April 16 – Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
  April 18
  Antônio Fagundes, Brazilian actor
  Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
  Bengt Holmström, Finnish-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  April 19 – Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1990)
  April 20
  Massimo D'Alema, 53rd Prime Minister of Italy
  Veronica Cartwright, English-born American actress
  Jessica Lange, American actress
  April 21 – Patti LuPone, American actress
  April 22 – Spencer Haywood, American basketball player
  April 23
  Joyce DeWitt, American actress
  György Gedó, Hungarian Olympic boxer
  April 24 – Véronique Sanson, French singer, songwriter
  April 26 – Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
  April 28 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
  April 30 – António Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal, 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
caption: Veronica Cartwright
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