page_title: 1949
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1949 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Göran Persson, Sveriges statsminister, under nordiskt statsministermötet i Reykjavik 2005.
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: January 1
  Ali Kadhim, Iraqi football striker (d. 2018)
  Vehbi Akdağ, Turkish wrestler
  Max Azria, French fashion designer
  January 2
  Nikolai Pankin, Russian breaststroke swimmer, swimming coach (d. 2018)
  Christopher Durang, American playwright
  January 3 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
  January 7 – Chavo Guerrero Sr., American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
  January 8 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
  January 9 – Mary Roos, German singer
  January 10
  George Foreman, African-American boxer
  Linda Lovelace, American porn actress, later anti-porn activist (Deep Throat) (d. 2002)
  January 11 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer
  January 12
  Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football player, coach
  Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
  Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
  January 13 – Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
  January 14 – Lawrence Kasdan, American director, screenwriter
  January 15 – Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
  January 16 – Caroline Munro, English actress, model
  January 17
  Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (d. 2014)
  Andy Kaufman, American comedian, actor (Taxi) (d. 1984)
  Mick Taylor, English musician
  January 18 – Philippe Starck, French designer
  January 19
  Robert Palmer, British rock singer (Addicted to Love) (d. 2003)
  Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
  January 20 – Göran Persson, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
  January 22 – Steve Perry, American rock singer (Journey)
  January 23 – Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, Indonesian politician and former Minister of Social Affairs
  January 24
  John Belushi, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1982)
  Nikolaus Brender, German television journalist
  January 25 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  January 26 – David Strathairn, American actor (Good Night, and Good Luck)
  January 27 – Djavan, Brazilian singer, songwriter
  January 28
  Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
  Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2020)
  January 29
  Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer (Ramones) (d. 2014)
  Tommi Salmelainen, Finnish hockey player
  January 30 – Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  January 31
  Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer, sports journalist
  Ken Wilber, American philosopher
caption: Göran Persson
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