1919

1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1916 1917 1918 – 1919 – 1920 1921 1922

Events

• January 15 – Great Molasses Flood in Boston kills 21 people.
• January 16 – Prohibition begins in the United States.
• June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
• Charles Strite invents the toaster.
• Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

• January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (d. 1972)
• May 3 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (d. 2014)
• May 7 – Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
• July 20 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
• September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
• October 3 - James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize winning Economist (d. 2013)
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• October 26 - Edward Brooke, American politician

Deaths

• Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau – French painter
• January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• April 10 – Emiliano Zapata
• May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American writer
• August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish businessman
• October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
• October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize winner