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1949 (MCMXLIX) was the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
- The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs.
- 1949 Buick, see Streamline Moderne style
Art
- Nude with cat by Balthus
Film
- Bitter Rice by Giuseppe De Santis
- Blood of the Beasts by Georges Franju
Literature
- Révélation series by André Breton
- The Accursed Share by Georges Bataille
- The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
- Lautréamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by Georges Orwell
Births
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Slavoj Žižek
- David Toop
- Martin Amis
- Andy Kaufman
- Ken Wilber
- Linda Lovelace
- Twiggy
- Leroy Sibbles
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Richard Hell
Deaths
- James Ensor (1860 - 1949)
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949)
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