List of Famous people who died in 1949

Fernando de los Ríos Urruti was a Spanish professor of Political Law and Socialist politician who was in turn Minister of Justice, Minister of Education and Foreign Minister between 1931 and 1933 in the early years of the Second Spanish Republic. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) he was Spanish Ambassador to France and then to the United States.

Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Admiral The Hon. Sir Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord.

Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

James Walter Grimston, 4th Earl of Verulam was a British peer, electrical engineer and businessman, sometimes identified with the fringes of the intelligence service.

Prince August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor of Prussia, called "Auwi", was the fourth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was a vocal supporter of Nazism and of Adolf Hitler.

John Neville Keynes was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.

Tan Malaka was a teacher, Indonesian philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, independent guerrilla, Indonesian fighter, and Indonesian national hero. Tempo credited him as Father of the Republic of Indonesia.

Dorothea Conyers was an Irish novelist. Her books are romantic novels set among the Irish sporting gentry. Her output numbered some 40 titles.

Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton, was a British politician.