page_title: 1949
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1949 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: Actor and vocalist Ron Raines
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: December 1
  Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
  Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman, politician and 36th and 38th President of Chile
  Kurt Schmoke, African-American Dean, Howard Law School, Mayor of Baltimore
  December 2 – Ron Raines, American actor
  December 3
  John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
  Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (The Sound of Music, Logan's Run) (d. 2017)
  December 4
  Jeff Bridges, American actor
  Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedian, actress, and singer
  December 5
  Bruce E. Melnick, American astronaut
  Lanny Wadkins, American professional golfer
  December 6
  Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
  Peter Willey, English cricketer
  December 7
  James Rivière, Italian jeweler, designer
  Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
  Cathy Wayne, Australian pop entertainer (d. 1969)
  December 8 – Mary Gordon, American writer
  December 9 – Eileen Myles, American poet and writer
  December 10 – Dick Cohen, American politician, Minnesota Senate
  December 11 – Boris Shcherbakov, Russian-Soviet film actor
  December 12 – Bill Nighy, English actor
  December 13
  Robert Lindsay, English actor
  Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player
  Tom Verlaine, American rock singer, guitarist
  December 14 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (d. 2019)
  December 15
  Don Johnson, American actor (Miami Vice)
  Abdul Karim Al-Kabariti, Prime Minister of Jordan
  December 16 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
  December 17
  Dušan Mitošević, Serbian football player, manager (d. 2018)
  Paul Rodgers, British rock singer
  December 18 – David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (d. 1980)
  Blaze Foley, American country singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
  December 19
  Carlos Gomes Júnior, Bissau-Guinean politician
  Sebastian, Danish musician
  December 20
  Pauline Robinson Bush, eldest daughter of President of the United States George H. W. Bush and his wife First Lady Barbara Bush (d. 1953)
  Claudia Jennings, American model (d. 1979)
  December 21 – Thomas Sankara, 2-Time President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
  December 22
  Michael Bacon, American singer-songwriter
  Maurice Gibb, British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
  Robin Gibb, British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
  December 23 – Brian O'Neill, American political leader
  December 24 – Randy Neugebauer, American politician
  December 25
  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
  Sissy Spacek, American actress (Carrie)
  Manny Mori, Former President of Micronesia
  Joe Louis Walker, American musician
  Nawaz Sharif, current Pakistani Prime Minister
  December 26 – José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  December 27 – Klaus Fischer, German footballer
  December 28
  Barbara De Fina, American film producer
  Sam Katz, American politician, Philadelphia
  December 29 – Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer
  December 30 – Jerry Coyne, American biologist
  December 31 – Ellen Datlow, American science fiction writer
caption: Ron Raines
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