1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1919 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated - Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard.
- Les Champs Magnetiques, the first automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault.
- XWA (now CINW), in Montreal, Quebec, becomes the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.
- Various strikes occur in the United States: Strike of US railroad workers; The Longshoreman's strike; The Great Steel Strike; and a general strike in Seattle, Washington.
- Female suffrage is enacted in Germany and Luxembourg.
- Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design is published.
- The International Astronomical Union is founded in France.
- The World League Against Alcoholism is established by the Anti-Saloon League.
- The fictional character Ham Gravy debuts in Thimble Theatre Comics.
- US President Wilson promises eventual independence for Philippines, though subsequent Republican administrations see it as a distant goal.
[edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye)
- January 5 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan political theorist
- January 13 – Robert Stack, American actor (The Untouchables) (d. 2003)
- January 14 – Andy Rooney, American journalist (60 Minutes)
- January 15 – George Cadle Price, first Prime Minister of Belize
- January 23
- January 24 – Leon Kirchner, American composer (d. 2009)
- January 25 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer (NBC Nightly News)
- January 26 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
- January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian, American musician and actor (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (d. 1972)
- January 31 – Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player (d. 1972)
- February 5
- February 9 – Langdon Brown Gilkey, American Protestant ecumenical theologian (d. 2004)
- February 11
- February 12 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop) (d. 1986)
- February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
- February 16 – Charlie Parlato, American musician (d. 2007)
- February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
- February 20
- February 24 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004)
- February 26
[edit] March–April - March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress
- March 4 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
- March 7 – M. N. Nambiar, Indian film actor (d. 2008)
- March 15 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
- March 17 – Nat King Cole, African-American singer (Unforgettable) (d. 1965)
- March 24
- March 29 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
- March 30 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- April 1 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 8 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
- April 13 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
- April 16 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
- April 20 – Richard Hillary, British pilot and author (d. 1943)
- April 22 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
[edit] May–June - May 1
- May 3
- May 4 – Dory Funk, American professional wrestler (d. 1973)
- May 7 – Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
- May 8 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
- May 14 – Denis Cannan, British dramatist, playwright and scriptwriter
- May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
- May 17 – Ronald Verlin Cassill, American novelist, short story writer, editor, painter, and lithographer (d. 2002)
- May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
- May 20 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
- May 23 – Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
- June 4 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
- June 11 – Richard Todd, Irish born stage & screen actor
- June 19 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
- June 19 – Louis Jourdan, French Actor
- June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
- June 26 – Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
- June 30 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
[edit] July–August - July 6 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
- July 7 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
- July 8 – Walter Scheel, President of Germany
- July 15 – Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist (d. 1999)
- July 20 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, conqueror of Mount Everest (d. 2008)
- July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
- August 2 – Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American character actor
- August 8 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
- August 9 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 (d. 1987)
- August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
- August 13 – Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007)
- August 15 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (d. 2007)
- August 21 – Dalmiro Finol, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- August 25 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- August 28 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- August 31 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poetess and author (d. 2005)
[edit] September–October - September 11 – Ota Sik, Czech economist and politician (d. 2004)
- September 21 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988)
- September 24 – Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (d. 1977)
- September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
- September 27 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (d. 1986)
- October 3 – James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 5 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
- October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor-General of Australia
- October 9 – Jason Wingreen, American actor
- October 11 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
- October 12 – Doris Miller, American sailor (d. 1943)
- October 16 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
- October 17 – Zhao Ziyang, prime minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2005)
- October 18
- October 22 – Doris Lessing, British writer
- October 23 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d 1992)
- October 26
[edit] November–December - November 3
- November 5 – Myron Floren, American accordionist (The Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 2005)
- November 10 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor
- November 14 – Lisa Otto, German soprano
- November 15 – Roy Burden, Canadian World War II pilot (d. 2005)
- November 18 – Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (d. 1944)
- November 28 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)
- December 4 – I. K. Gujral, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1997–98)
- December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
- December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Polish composer (d. 1996)
- December 9 – William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 21 – Ove Sprogøe, Danish actor (d. 2004)
- December 31 – Tommy Byrne, baseball player (d. 2007)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 4 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
- January 6
- January 7 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
- January 15
- January 18 – Prince John of the United Kingdom (b. 1905)
- January 27 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
- February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
- March 2 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
- April 4 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- April 8 – Franklin Winfield Woolworth, American businessman (born 1852)
- April 9 – Sidney Drew, American actor (born 1863)
- April 10 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
- April 15 – Jane Delano, American nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862)
- May 3 – Eugen Levine, German revolutionary (b. 1883)
- May 4 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general, politician, and astronomer (b. 1880)
- May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz) (b. 1856)
- May 14 – Henry John Heinz, American businessman (b. 1844)
- May 21 – Lamar Johnstone, American silent film actor & director (b. 1885)
- June 29 – José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuelan medician and saint (b. 1864)
- June 30 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
[edit] July–December - July 15 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- July 26 – Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
- August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer (born 1847)
- August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
- August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1835)
- August 21 – Laurie Doherty, British tennis champion (born 1875)
- September 27 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (born 1843)
- October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
- October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
- October 18 – Viscount William Astor, American financier and statesman (b. 1848)
- November 9 – Eduard Müller, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1848)
- November 15 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- November 24 – William Stowell, American silent film actor & director, died in train wreck in Africa while scouting locations for Universal Pictures (b. 1885)
- December 2 – Henry C. Frick, American industrialist (born 1849)
- December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841)
- December 19 – Martin Savage, IRA commander (b. 1898)
[edit] Nobel Prizes [edit] See also [edit] External links - Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, 2002, Random House.
- Paula Phelan, 1919 Misfortune's End, 2007, ZAPmedia.
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