List of Famous people who died in 1949

Adélaïde Ametis or Adélaïde Ametis Frassati was an Italian painter who had paintings commissioned by the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III.

Elliot Woolfolk Major was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.

Almanzo James Wilder was the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the father of Rose Wilder Lane, both noted authors.

Infanta Blanca of Spain was the eldest child of Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain and his wife Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. Blanca was a member of the House of Bourbon and - according to the Carlists - an Infanta of Spain by birth. In 1889 she married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria. The couple had ten children. The family left Austria after the end of the Monarchy and finally settled in Barcelona. When the male line of Blanca's family died out at the death of her uncle, Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, some of the Carlists recognized her as the legitimate heiress to the Spanish throne.

Ernest Mottard was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1928 edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.

Philip Herbert Cowell FRS was a British astronomer.

William Reagan Gorham was an American-born Japanese automobile engineer who emigrated to Japan. Gorham would make substantial contributions to the technology and capability of Japan's fledgling automobile industry, and worked with a number of companies that would eventually be merged into the Nissan Motor Company by Yoshisuke Aikawa, who would become a close friend and business partner to Gorham.

Léon Level was a French professional road bicycle racer.