This article lists events that occurred during 1949 in Estonia.

• 25 March – an extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

• 3 March – Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
• 3 April – Ivo Eensalu, actor and stage director
• 12 June – Ivo Linna, Estonian singer