List of Famous people who died in 1949

Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Charles Vernon France was a British actor, usually credited as C. V. France.

Sir Stanley Cochrane, 1st Baronet was an Irish first-class cricketer and philanthropist.

John Edward Tyrrell was an American film actor. He appeared in over 250 films between 1935 and 1947, known for his numerous appearances in the Three Stooges, in a total of 28 shorts with Curly Howard as a third stooge.

Anna Bosch was the first woman to be an Honorary Citizen of the City of Tübingen. She was the wife of Robert Bosch.

Meir Bar-Ilan was an Orthodox rabbi, author, and Religious Zionist activist, who served as leader of the Mizrachi movement in the United States and Mandatory Palestine. Bar-Ilan University, founded in 1955, was named in his honour.

Hugh Maudslay Hordern was the sixth Bishop of Lewes.

Antoni Ponikowski was a Polish academician and politician who served as 7th Prime Minister of Poland in 1918 and from 1921 to 1922.