List of Famous people who died in 1949

Henri Benjamin Rabaud was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century.

William Desmond was an American actor. He appeared in 205 films between 1915 and 1948. He was nicknamed "The King of the Silent Serials."

Blanche Irene Sewell was an American female film editor. She was known mainly for working at MGM Studios from 1925 until her death in 1949.

Don Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante of Spain was the son of Prince Alfonso of the Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta and his wife Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and nephew of the last King of the Two Sicilies, Francis II.

Cyril Percy Callister was an Australian chemist and food technologist who developed the Vegemite yeast spread.

Joaquín Torres García was an Uruguayan / Spanish artist, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874. As an adolescent he emigrated to Catalunya, Spain,where he initiated his career as an artist in 1891. For the next three decades, he embraced Catalan identity leading Barcelona’s and Europe's art and culture to its utmost vanguards. A ‘renaissance or universal man’; painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher and theorist. He was also active in United States, Italy, France and Uruguay from where his influence encompasses a personal presence in European, North American and South American modern art. He dealt the eternal dilemma between the old and the modern, the classical and the avant-garde, reason and feeling, figuration and abstraction with a simple and brilliant metaphor: there is no contradiction or incompatibility. Like Goethe, he seeks the integration between classicism and modernity.

Andrew Daniel Comyn was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler.

Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, an hereditary knight as recognised by the Irish government and socialite.

Erich Klossowski or Kłossowski was a German and Polish-French art historian and a painter, now primarily known as the father of the writer-philosopher- painter and actor Pierre Klossowski and the artist Balthus. He was born in Ragnit, Germany.

George Harcourt Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone, 3rd Baron Derwent FRSA, was a British author, diplomat and Liberal politician.