page_title: 1949
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1949 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Portait von August Wilhelm von Preußen.
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: March 2 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian independence activist, poet (b. 1879)
  March 3 – Carrie Ashton Johnson, American editor, author (b. 1863)
  March 4 – James Rowland Angell, American psychologist and educator (b. 1869)
  March 7 – Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (b. 1884)
  March 9 – Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1885)
  March 10 – Alphonse Hustache, French entomologist (b. 1872)
  March 11
  Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general, interim Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1862)
  Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
  Joan Lamote de Grignon, Spanish pianist, composer (b. 1872)
  March 15 – Gheorghe Brăescu, Romanian writer (b. 1871)
  March 16 – Leyland Hodgson, British-born American actor (b. 1892)
  March 17 – Felix Bressart, German-born American actor (b. 1892)
  March 19 – James Somerville, British admiral (b. 1882)
  March 25
  Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (b. 1887)
  Jack Kapp, president of the U.S. branch of Decca Records (b. 1901)
  March 27
  Elisheva Bikhovski, Soviet-born Israeli poet, writer and translator (b. 1888)
  March 28
  Alecu Constantinescu, Romanian trade unionist, journalist and militant (b. 1872)
  Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian composer (b. 1889)
  March 29
  Inabata Katsutaro, Japanese industrialist, pioneer (b. 1862)
  Helen Homans, American tennis player (b. 1877)
  March 30
  Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
  Prince Harald of Denmark (b. 1876)
caption: Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
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