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

Robert Stack

Giulio Andreotti

Jackie Robinson

• January 1 – Carole Landis, American actress and singer (d. 1948)
• January 13 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
• January 14 – Giulio Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
• January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (d. 1972)
• January 31 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)

February

Andreas Papandreou

Jack Palance

• February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
• February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)

March

Jennifer Jones

Nat King Cole

• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
• March 17 – Nat King Cole, American singer and jazz pianist (d. 1965)
• March 25 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (d. 1984)

April

Ian Smith

• April 8 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
• April 13 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)

May

Pete Seeger

Eva Perón

Liberace

• May 3 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (d. 2014)
• May 7 – Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
• May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
• May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)

June

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

• June 6 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)

July

Walter Scheel

Edmund Hillary

James Lovelock

• July 8 – Walter Scheel, 4th President of Germany (d. 2016)
• July 20 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
• July 26 – James Lovelock, English environmentalist (d. 2022)

August

Joop den Uyl

• August 9 – Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)

September

• September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)

October

Siad Barre

Kiichi Miyazawa

Pierre Trudeau

• October 3 - James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize winning Economist (d. 2013)
• October 6 – Siad Barre, 3rd President of Somalia (d. 1995)
• October 8 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• October 26 - Edward Brooke, American politician (d. 2015)

November

Martin Balsam

• November 4 – Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)

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