Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1949

Francesco Marmaggi was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation of the Council and, earlier, as Nuncio in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Poland, as well as being a special envoy to Turkey.

Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as Director of Education for the Transvaal Colony and editor of The Morning Post.

Frank Baldwin Jewett worked as an engineer for American Telegraph and Telephone where his work demonstrated transatlantic radio telephony using a vacuum-tube transmitter. He was also a physicist and the first president of Bell Labs.

Elie Robert Schmitz was a Franco-American pianist and composer.

Frederic Stanley Kipping FRS era un químico británico. Fue un pionero de la investigación sobre polímeros de silicio y acuñó la palabra silicona.

Albert Rehm was a German philologist best known for his work on the Antikythera mechanism - he was the first to propose that it was an astronomical calculator.