List of Famous people who died in 1949

Nancy Dalberg was a Danish composer.

Edward Keble Talbot was an English Anglican priest, who was the Superior of the Community of the Resurrection, a religious community for men in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.

Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar,, FAGS, FIL was a Welsh poet and author. On 3 March 1934, he succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Morgan, 4th Baron Tredegar, and 2nd Viscount Tredegar, after the death of his father.

Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.

Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.

Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, belonging to the centre-left wing of the Liberal Party, which he led for many years.

Reverend Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron was an Anglican clergyman, nobleman, peer, politician, and the tenth Baron Byron, as a grandson of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov was a Russian engineer who specialised in weapons design.