List of Famous people who died in 1949

General the Honourable Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, was a British First World War General officer who served in Italy and the Western Front.

Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz. Fleming has those same two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.

Leonor Michaelis was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913.

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, then under the Province of Prussia.

Walter Buch was a German jurist and SS official during the Nazi era. He was Martin Bormann's father-in-law. After the end of the Second World War in Europe, Buch was classified as a major regime functionary or "Hauptschuldiger" in the denazification proceedings in 1949. On 12 September of that year, he committed suicide.

Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, was a Royal Navy officer and courtier.

Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Davenport, was a British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician. He fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An MP from 1886 to 1906, he held political office under Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1903 to 1905.

Lou Tseng-Tsiang or Lu Zhengxiang was a Chinese diplomat and a Roman Catholic monk. He was twice Premier of the Republic of China and led his country's delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He sometimes used the French name René Lou in earlier life, and his monastic name was Pierre-Célestin, O.S.B..