1919

This article is about the year 1919. For other uses, see 1919 (disambiguation).

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

1919 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1919 MCMXIX
Ab urbe condita	2672
Armenian calendar	1368 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6669
Baháʼí calendar	75–76
Balinese saka calendar	1840–1841
Bengali calendar	1326
Berber calendar	2869
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 5 – 10 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2463
Burmese calendar	1281
Byzantine calendar	7427–7428
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4616 or 4409     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4617 or 4410
Coptic calendar	1635–1636
Discordian calendar	3085
Ethiopian calendar	1911–1912
Hebrew calendar	5679–5680
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1975–1976
- Shaka Samvat	1840–1841
- Kali Yuga	5019–5020
Holocene calendar	11919
Igbo calendar	919–920
Iranian calendar	1297–1298
Islamic calendar	1337–1338
Japanese calendar	Taishō 8 (大正８年)
Javanese calendar	1849–1850
Juche calendar	8
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4252
Minguo calendar	ROC 8 民國8年
Nanakshahi calendar	451
Thai solar calendar	2461–2462
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 2045 or 1664 or 892     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 2046 or 1665 or 893

1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1919th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 919th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1919, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January

January 1: Iolaire sinks.

• January 1
  • The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
  • HMY Iolaire sinks off the coast of Scotland; 201 die.
  • Edsel Ford succeeds his father, as head of the Ford Motor Company.
• January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
• January 5
  • Spartacist uprising: Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.
  • In Germany, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), predecessor of the Nazi Party, is formed by the merger of Anton Drexler's Committee of Independent Workmen with journalist Karl Harrer's Political Workers' Circle.
• January 7
  • The Tragic Week in Argentina, an anarchist uprising in Buenos Aires, begins; it is later suppressed by official forces.
  • Estonian War of Independence: With Soviet Russian forces just 40 km of the capital Tallinn, Estonian forces start a general and successful counter-offensive against the Red Army.
• January 8 – The funeral of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, is held at Christ Church Oyster Bay, Long Island; Roosevelt had died in his sleep at the age of 60, two days earlier.
• January 9 – Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.
• January 10–12 – The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin.
• January 11
  • Romania annexes Transylvania.
  • The Georgian genocide occurs in Alagir.
• January 13 – Workers' councils in Berlin end the general strike; the Spartacist uprising is over.
• January 14 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate Tartu from the Red Army.
• January 15
  • Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered, following the Spartacist uprising.
  • Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• January 16
  • The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, is ratified.
  • Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the second Prime Minister of Poland.
• January 18
  • World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles, France.
  • Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate Narva, expelling the Red Army from Northern Estonia.
  • Bentley Motors Limited is founded in England.
• January 19
  • The Monarchy of the North is established in Northern Portugal.
• January 21
  • Dáil Éireann meets for the first time in the Mansion House, Dublin. It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who, in accordance with their manifesto, have not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men are killed in an ambush at Soloheadbeg in Tipperary.
  • Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire dies.
• January 23 – The Khotin Uprising breaks out in Khotyn, Ukraine.
• January 25 – The League of Nations is founded in Paris, France.
• January 31 – Battle of George Square: The British Army is called in to deal with riots, during negotiations over working hours in Glasgow, Scotland.

David Kirkwood being detained by police during the Battle of George Square

February

• February 1 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate Valga and Võru, expelling the Red Army from the entire territory of Estonia.
• February 3 – Soviet troops occupy Ukraine.
• February 4-5 – Pressburg (Bratislava) becomes the capital of Slovakia.
• February 5 – United Artists (UA) is incorporated by D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
• February 6 – The Seattle General Strike begins in the United States, affecting over 65,000 workers.
• February 11
  • Friedrich Ebert is elected the first President of Germany (Reichspräsident), by the Weimar National Assembly.
  • The Seattle General Strike ends, when Federal troops are summoned by the State of Washington's Attorney General.
• February 12 – Ethnic Germans and Hungarian inhabitants of Pressburg start a protest against its incorporation into Czechoslovakia, but the Czechoslovak Legions open fire on the unarmed demonstrators.
• February 14 – The Polish–Soviet War begins, with the Battle of Bereza Kartuska.
• February 16-21 – Estonian War of Independence: Uniformed peasants in Saaremaa rebel against the government of Estonia; the rebellion is crushed by government forces, leaving more than 200 dead.
• February 25 – Oregon places a one cent per US gallon (0.26¢/liter) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
• February 26 – Grand Canyon National Park: An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.
• February 28
  • Amānullāh Khān becomes King of Afghanistan.
  • An independence mission to the U.S., funded by the Philippine legislature, sets out from Manila to present its case to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker.

March

• March 1 – The March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea is formed.
• March 2 – The Founding Congress of the Comintern opens in Moscow.
• March 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction of Charles Schenck.
• March 4 – The Communist International (Comintern) is founded.
• March 4–5 – Kinmel Park Riots by troops of the Canadian Expeditionary Force awaiting repatriation at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan, in North Wales. Five men are killed, 28 injured, and 25 convicted of mutiny.
• March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes United States Attorney General, through recess appointment.
• March 8 – The Rowlatt Act is passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London, indefinitely extending the emergency provisions of the Defence of India Act 1915.
• March 9 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 breaks out.
• March 15–17 – Members of the American Expeditionary Forces convene in Paris, for the first American Legion caucus.
• March 21 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established by Béla Kun.
• March 23 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• March 23–24 – Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria, leaves Austria for exile in Switzerland.
• March 26 – Queen of the South F.C. is formed in Dumfries.
• March 27 – The name Bratislava is officially adopted for the city of Pressburg.
• March 31 – A general strike begins in the Ruhr.

April

• April 5 – Pinsk massacre: 35 Jews are killed without trial, after being accused of Bolshevism.
• April 6–7 – The Bavarian Soviet Republic is founded.
• April 10 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead in Morelos.
• April 12 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.
• April 13
  • Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, in the Punjab Province (British India).
  • Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
• April 15 – The Save the Children Fund is created in the UK, to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children.
• April 20 – The French Army blows up the bridge over the Dniester at Bender, Moldova, to protect the city from the Bolsheviks.
• April 23 – The Estonian Constituent Assembly convenes its first session.
• April 25
  • The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.
  • ANZAC Day is observed for the first time in Australia.
  • Pancho Villa takes Parral, Chihuahua, in Mexico, and executes the mayor and his two sons by hanging.
• April 30 – Several bombs are intercepted, in the first wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.

May

• May 1
  • A large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police.
  • Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.
• May 2 – Weimar Republic troops and the Freikorps occupy Munich, and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• May 3 – Amānullāh Khān attacks the British government in India.
• May 4
  • The May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China erupts.
  • The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris.
• May 6 – The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins.
• May 8 – Edward George Honey proposes a moment of silence, to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
• May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.)
• May 9 – In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage, and gives the franchise to certain classes of women.
• May 14 – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first Chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.
• May 15
  • The Hellenic Army lands at Smyrna, on ships of the British Royal Navy.
  • A law providing for full women's suffrage in the Netherlands is introduced.
  • Winnipeg general strike: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada launch a strike for better wages and working conditions.
• May 17 – The Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg general strike.
• May 19
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also an official day of Turkish Youth.
  • Volcano Kelud erupts in Java, killing about 5,000.
• May 23 – The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
• May 25 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces capture Pskov from the Red Army, and soon hand it over to the White forces.
• May 27
  • Fyodor Raskolnikov is exchanged for 14 British prisoners of war.
  • Siege of Spin Boldak (Third Anglo-Afghan War): This is the last time the British Army uses an escalade.
• May 29
  • Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during a total solar eclipse in Príncipe, and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil (confirmed November 19).
  • The Republic of Prekmurje formally declares independence from Hungary.
• May 30 – By agreement with the United Kingdom, later confirmed by the League of Nations, Belgium is given the mandate over part of German East Africa (Ruanda-Urundi).

June

"The Big Four" during the Paris Peace Conference (from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson).

• June – 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.
• June 2 – 1919 United States anarchist bombings: Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures.
• June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the states for ratification.
• June 5 – Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence: The advancing pro-German Baltische Landeswehr initiates war against Estonia in Northern Latvia.
• June 6 – The Hungarian Red Army attacks the Republic of Prekmurje.
• June 7 – Sette Giugno on Malta: British troops fire on a mob protesting against the colonial government, killing four.
• June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by John Alcock DSC, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.
• June 15 – Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. When the bullets begin to fly to the American side of the border, two units of the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment cross the border, to push Villa's forces from American territory.
• June 17 – English Police Sergeant Thomas Green is killed, during the Epsom Riot by Canadian troops.
• June 18 – The biggest football club in Central America, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, is founded in Costa Rica.
• June 21
  • Bloody Saturday of the Winnipeg general strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.
  • Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet interned in Scapa Flow, Scotland; nine German sailors are killed.
• June 23 – Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence – Battle of Cēsis: The Estonian army defeats the pro-German Baltische Landeswehr in northern Latvia, forcing it to retreat towards Riga; the event has been celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia ever since.
• June 26 – British Foreign Office official St John Philby and T. E. Lawrence arrive in Cairo for discussions about Arab unrest in Egypt, having been flown by Canadian pilot Harry Yates in a Handley Page bomber, which set off from England on June 21.
• June 28
  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed, formally ending World War I. John Maynard Keynes, who had been present at the conference and was unhappy with the terms of the treaty, brings out his own analysis later in the year, entitled The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
  • The International Labour Organization (ILO) is established as an agency of the League of Nations.

July

• July 2 – The Syrian National Congress in Damascus: Arab nationalists announce independence.
• July 2–6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.
• July 3 – Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence: The pro-German Baltische Landeswehr signs a peace treaty with Estonia and Latvia. The pro-German Prime Minister of Latvia Andrievs Niedra resigns, and Latvian forces take over Riga on July 8.
• July 7 – The United States Army sends a convoy across the continental U.S., starting in Washington, D.C., to assess the possibility of crossing North America by road. This crossing takes many months to complete, because the building of the U.S. Highway System has not commenced.
• July 11 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
• July 19 – The Foreign Ministry of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is established, by decree of the chancellory for foreign affairs.
• July 21 – Wingfoot Air Express crash: The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express catches fire over downtown Chicago. Two passengers, one aircrewman and ten people on the ground are killed. However, two people parachute to the ground safely.
• July 27 – The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins, when a white man throws stones at a group of four black teens on a raft.
• July 28 – The International Astronomical Union is founded in Paris, France.
• July 31 – British police strike in London and Liverpool, for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.

August

Romanian troops entering Budapest

• August 1 – Béla Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic collapses.
• August 3 – The Romanian army liberates Timișoara from the Hungarian occupation.
• August 4 – The Romanian army occupies Budapest.
• August 8 – The Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
• August 11 – In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is proclaimed to be in effect (ratified).
• August 16–26 – First Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.
• August 18 – The Bolshevik fleet at Kronstadt, near Petrograd, Russia, on the Baltic Sea, is mostly destroyed by British warplanes and torpedo boats in a combined operation.
• August 19 – Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.

  

  Friedrich Ebert becomes president in Weimar, Germany

• August 21 – Friedrich Ebert becomes the first president in Germany.
• August 27 – South African Prime Minister Louis Botha dies in office.
• August 29 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Pskov from White forces.
• August 31 – The American Communist Party is established.

September

• September 3 – Jan Smuts becomes the second Prime Minister of South Africa.
• September 6 – The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.
• September 10 – The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria-Hungary.
• September 10–15: The Florida Keys hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.
• September 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, with his entourage, marches into Fiume and convinces Italian troops to join him.
• September 17 – German South West Africa is placed under South African administration.
• September 21 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States.
• September 27 – The last British Army troops leave Archangel, and leave the fighting to the Russians.

October

• October 2 – President of the United States Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.
• October 7 – The Dutch airline KLM is formed (as of 2007, it will be the world's oldest airline still flying under its original name).
• October 9 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players are later found to have lost intentionally.
• October 10 – Estonia adopts a radical land reform, nationalizing 97% of agrarian lands, mostly still belonging to Baltic Germans.
• October 13 – The Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation is signed, in Paris, France.
• October 16
  • In Germany, Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party (DAP).
  • The historic Condado Vanderbilt Hotel is inaugurated, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• October 28 – Prohibition in the United States: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

November

• November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States, by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis; a final agreement is reached on December 10.
• November 7
  • The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution; over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities.
  • Inspired by Cape Town's daily Noon Gun Three Minute Pause, King George V institutes the Two Minute Silence, following a suggestion by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, to be observed annually at the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month.
• November 9 – Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies, marking the first cartoon character to become popular.
• November 10 – Abrams v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction Abrams, for inciting resistance to the war effort against Soviet Russia.
• November 10–12 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis.
• November 11
  • Russian Civil War: The Northwestern Army of General Nikolai Yudenich retreats to Estonia and is disarmed.
  • The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington (United States), originating at an Armistice Day parade, results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion, and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
  • First Remembrance Day observed in the British Empire with a two-minute silence at 11:00 hours.
• November 16 – After Entente pressure, Romanian forces withdraw from Budapest and allow Admiral Horthy to march in.
• November 19 – The Treaty of Versailles fails a critical ratification vote in the United States Senate. It will never be ratified by the U.S.
• November 27 – The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine is signed between the Allies and Bulgaria.
• November 30 – Health officials declare the global "Spanish" flu pandemic has ceased.

December

• December 1
  • American-born Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, having become the second to be elected on November 28.
  • XWA (now CINW), in Montreal, becomes the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.
• December 3 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
• December 4 – The French Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana is destroyed by fire.
• December 5 – The Turkish Ministry of War releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service.
• December 17 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• December 19 – The fictional character Ham Gravy makes his début in Thimble Theatre Comics.
• December 21 – The United States deports 249 people, including Emma Goldman, to Russia on the USAT Buford.
• December 23 - Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
• December 25 – Cliftonhill Stadium in Coatbridge, Scotland, opens as the home of Albion Rovers F.C.. They lose the opening match 2–0 to St Mirren.

Date unknown

• Les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.
• Female suffrage is enacted in Germany and Luxembourg.
• The World League Against Alcoholism is established by the Anti-Saloon League.
• John Browning finalizes the design for the M1919 Browning machine gun (.30 caliber), the first widely distributed and practical air cooled medium machine gun introduced to the United States Military. It receives an official designation, and production is started in the same year.
• John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun in the United States.
• Severe inflation in Germany sees the Papiermark rise to 47 marks against the United States dollar by December, compared to 12 marks in April.

Births

January

Giulio Andreotti

• January 1
  • Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 2006)
  • Carole Landis, American actress (d. 1948)
  • Daniil Granin, Soviet-Russian author (d. 2017)
  • J. D. Salinger, American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye) (d. 2010)
• January 2 – Charles Willeford, American writer (d. 1988)
• January 3 – Dorothy Morrison, American actress
• January 4 – Lester L. Wolff, American politician
• January 5 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan political theorist (d. 2012)
• January 13 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
• January 14
  • Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
  • Andy Rooney, American television personality (d. 2011)
• January 15 – George Cadle Price, 2-Time Prime Minister of Belize (1981–84 and 1989–93) (d. 2011)
• January 19 – Antonio Pietrangeli, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• January 23
  • Frances Bay, Canadian actress (d. 2011)
  • Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist (d. 2013)
  • Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
  • Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
• January 24 – Leon Kirchner, American composer (d. 2009)
• January 26
  • Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
  • Hyun Soong-jong, 24th Prime Minister of South Korea
• January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr., American musician and actor (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (d. 1972)
• January 28 – Gabby Gabreski, American fighter ace (d. 2002)
• January 30 – John C. Elliott, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa (1952) (d. 2001)
• January 31 – Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player (d. 1972)

February

Andreas Papandreou

Jack Palance

• February 1 – Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008)
• February 4
  • Peter Butterworth, English actor and comedian (d. 1979)
  • Janet Waldo, American actress (d. 2016)
• February 5
  • Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (1981–89 and 1993–96) (d. 1996)
• February 9 – Robert Martin, American fighter pilot (d. 2018)
• February 11 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress, better known for her role in Green Acres (d. 1995)
• February 12
  • Forrest Tucker, American actor, better known for his role in F Troop (d. 1986)
  • Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and manager (d. 2005)
• February 13
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
  • Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
• February 16 – Irene Brown, British author and codebreaker (d. 2017)
• February 17 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
• February 18
  • Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
  • José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian cardinal
• February 20
  • Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
  • James O'Meara, British Battle of Britain Spitfire flying ace (d. 1974)
• February 24 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004)
• February 25
  • Karl H. Pribram, Austrian-American neuroscientist (d. 2015)
  • Monte Irvin, American baseball player (d. 2016)
• February 26 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
• February 28 – Brian Urquhart, English war veteran and diplomat

March

Jennifer Jones

Nat King Cole

Jeanne Cagney

• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
• March 3
  • Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican novelist and journalist (d. 2017)
  • Tadahito Mochinaga, Japanese stop-motion animator (d. 1999)
• March 5 – Myron H. Bright, United States federal judge (d. 2016)
• March 7 – M. N. Nambiar, Indian film actor (d. 2008)
• March 10 – Leonor Oyarzún, First Lady of Chile
• March 11 – Kira Golovko, Russian actress (d. 2017)
• March 13 – Jack P. Lewis, American Biblical scholar (d. 2018)
• March 14 – Dickey Chapelle, American photojournalist (d. 1965)
• March 17 – Nat King Cole, African-American singer ("Unforgettable") (d. 1965)
• March 18 – Santiago Álvarez, Cuban filmmaker (d. 1998)
• March 19 – Abdullah Tariki, Saudi politician and government official (d. 1997)
• March 20 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (d. 1983)
• March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher
• March 25 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (d. 1984)
• March 26 – Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)
• March 29 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

April

Ian Smith

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

• April 1
  • Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012)
  • Jeannie Rousseau, French Allied intelligence agent (d. 2017)
• April 3 – Ervin Drake, American songwriter (d. 2015)
• April 4 – Charles O. Porter, American politician (d. 2006)
• April 5 – Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
• April 6 – Caren Marsh Doll, American actress and dancer
• April 8 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1967–79) (d. 2007)
• April 9 – Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (d. 1985)
• April 13
  • Howard Keel, American singer, dancer and actor (Dallas) (d. 2004)
  • Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
• April 16 – Edward Simons Fulmer, American Army Air Forces officer (d. 2017)
• April 18 – Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (d. 2002)
• April 19 – Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
• April 21
  • Licio Gelli, Italian financer (d. 2015)
  • André Bettencourt, French politician (d. 2007)
• April 22 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
• April 23 – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress
• April 24 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot president (1993–2003) (d. 2013)

May

Eva Perón

Liberace

Margot Fonteyn

Paul Vanden Boeynants

File:Rene barrientos.jpg

René Barrientos

• May 1
  • Lance Barnard, Australian politician (d. 1997)
  • Manna Dey, Indian playback singer (d. 2013)
  • Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2018)
  • Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
• May 3 – Pete Seeger, American folk singer and musician (d. 2014)
• May 4
  • Dory Funk, American professional wrestler (d. 1973)
  • Basil Yamey, South African-English economist and academic
• May 5 – Georgios Papadopoulos, President of Greece and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)
• May 7
  • La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
  • Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (d. 1952)
• May 8 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
• May 9 – Mitja Ribičič, Yugoslav politician (d. 2013)
• May 10 – Atmasthananda, Indian Hindu leader (d. 2017)
• May 15 – Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2005)
• May 16
  • Liberace, American pop musician (d. 1987)
  • Richard Mason, British novelist (d. 1997)
• May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
• May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
• May 19
  • Arvid Andersson, Swedish weightlifter (d. 2011)
  • Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
• May 20 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
• May 21 – Vera Altayskaya, Soviet actress (d. 1978)
• May 22 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, 2-time Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
• May 23
  • Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
  • Avraham Drori, Polish-born Israeli politician (d. 1964)
• May 27 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
• May 28 – Lim Chong Eu, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
• May 29 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic (d. 2018)
• May 30 – René Barrientos, 2-time President of Bolivia (d. 1969)

June

Peter Carington

Mohamed Boudiaf

• June 5 – Veikko Huhtanen, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1976)
• June 6
  • Peter Carington, British politician (d. 2018)
  • Doris Merrick, American actress and model
• June 7 – George Glamack, American basketball player (d. 1987)
• June 8 – Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, 2nd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 1969)
• June 9 – Jimmy Newberry, American pitcher (d. 1983)
• June 11 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (d. 2009)
• June 12 – Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
• June 14 – June Spencer, English actress
• June 16 – V. T. Sambanthan, Malaysian politician (d. 1979)
• June 19
  • Pál Fábry, Hungarian politician (d. 2018)
  • Gérard Dionne, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop
• June 21
  • Tsilla Chelton, French actress (d. 2012)
  • Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
• June 22 – Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
• June 23
  • R. C. Pitts, American basketball player (d. 2011)
  • Mohamed Boudiaf, 4th President of Algeria (d. 1992)
  • Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian educator (d. 1986)
• June 24
  • Jack Naylor, American inventor (d. 2007)
  • Al Molinaro, American actor (d. 2015)
• June 26
  • George Athan Billias, American historian (d. 2018)
  • Donald M. Ashton, English art director (d. 2004)
• June 27 – Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse
• June 28 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (d. 1983)
• June 29
  • Walter Babington Thomas, Commander of British Far East Land Forces (d. 2017)
  • Slim Pickens, American film and television actor (d. 1983)
  • Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)

July

Walter Scheel

Edmund Hillary

• July 1
  • Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician
  • Mikhail Shultz, Soviet/Russian physical chemist (d. 2006)
  • Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009)
  • Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (d. 2014)
• July 2 – Henri Génès, French actor and singer (d. 2005)
• July 3
  • Mauro Cía, Argentine boxer
  • Gabriel Valdés, Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2011)
• July 4
  • Gerd Hagman, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
  • Douglas Birks, English cricketer (d. 2004)
• July 5 – Walter Obodzinsky, Polish-born member of the Wehrmacht (d. 2004)
• July 6
  • Edward Kenna, Australian Second World War recipient (d. 2009)
  • Ray Dowker, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2004)
• July 7
  • Earl Mazo, American journalist, author, and government official (d. 2007)
  • Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (d. 2010)
  • Bill Stroud, English football player and coach (d. 2006)
• July 8
  • Helena Salles, Brazilian swimmer (d. 2011)
  • Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
  • Walter Scheel, President of Germany (d. 2016)
• July 10
  • Harry Zeller, American professional basketball player (d. 2004)
  • Ian Wallace, British bass-baritone opera singer (d. 2009)
  • Carlos Silva Loaiza, Colombian professional footballer (d. 2009)
  • Pierre Gamarra, French poet, novelist and literary critic (d. 2009)
• July 11 – Donald Zilversmit, Dutch-born U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator (d. 2010)
• July 13
  • Hau Pei-tsun, Premier of the Republic of China
  • Joe Gill, American magazine writer and highly prolific comic book scripter (d. 2006)
  • Ben Ferencz, Hungarian-American lawyer
  • Grisha Filipov, leading member of the Bulgarian communist party (d. 1994)
  • Jack Wheeler, American professional footballer (d. 2009)
  • William F. Quinn, American politician (d. 2006)
• July 14
  • Cleveland Clark, Negro league baseball player
  • Marion F. Kirby, ace in the United States Army Air Forces (d. 2011)
  • Hal Lahar, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
  • Eugene Allen, American waiter and butler (d. 2010)
  • John Pott, British Army officer (d. 2005)
• July 15
  • Fred Ohr, American World War II ace (d. 2015)
  • Harcourt Dowsley, Australian sportsman (d. 2014)
• July 16
  • Choi Kyu-hah, 19th Prime Minister of South Korea and 4th President of South Korea (d. 2006)
  • Mike Karmazin, American football guard (d. 2004)
  • Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian SS officer (d. 1999)
  • Everett P. Pope, United States Marine (d. 2009)
• July 17 – Milt Smith, American football player and business operator (d. 2010)
• July 18 – Lilia Dale, Italian actress
• July 19
  • Nordine Ben Ali, Algerian-French former association football player and manager
  • Pentland Hick, British entrepreneur, author, publisher, and veteran of World War II
  • Solange Troisier, French physician (d. 2008)
  • Patricia Medina, English-born actress (d. 2012)
• July 20
  • Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge, English writer
  • Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, conqueror of Mount Everest (d. 2008)
• July 21
  • Pentland Hick, British entrepreneur, author, publisher, and veteran of World War II
  • Lady Rose McLaren, British aristocrat (d. 2005)
• July 22 – Allie Paine, American college basketball standout (d. 2008)
• July 24
  • Asadollah Alam, Iranian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1978)
  • Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss racing cyclist (d. 2016)
• July 26 – James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist
• July 31
  • Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
  • Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (d. 1987)
  • Robert M. Morgenthau, American lawyer

August

Joop den Uyl

George Wallace

• August 2
  • Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American character actor
  • Carlo Savina, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2002)
• August 7 – Bertha Moss, Argentine-Mexican actress (d. 2008)
• August 8 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (d. 2010)
• August 9 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973–77 (d. 1987)
• August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
• August 12 – Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic
• August 13 – George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (d. 2011)
• August 14 – Isaac C. Kidd Jr., American admiral (d. 1999)
• August 15
  • Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (d. 2007)
  • Dina Wadia, Indian political figure (d. 2017)
• August 18 – Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
• August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress (d. 1993)
• August 20
  • Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000)
  • Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer
  • Thomas G. Morris, American politician (d. 2016)
  • Leslie Gonda, Hungarian-American businessman, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor (d. 2018)
• August 21 – Dalmiro Finol, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
• August 22 – Larry Winn, American politician (d. 2017)
• August 24 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 31st President of Ecuador (d. 2004)
• August 25
  • George Wallace, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
  • Jaap Rijks, Dutch equestrian (d. 2017)
• August 28
  • Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
  • Ben Agajanian, American football player (d. 2018)
• August 29 – Sono Osato, American actress and dancer
• August 30
  • Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005)
  • Joachim Rønneberg, Norwegian war veteran
  • Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (d. 2010)
• August 31
  • Amrita Pritam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
  • Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic (d. 2018)

September

• September 1 – Gladys Davis, Canadian professional baseball player
• September 2 – Marge Champion, American actress
• September 5
  • Tom Jordan, American Major League Baseball player
  • Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
• September 6
  • Lee Archer, African-American U.S. fighter pilot (d. 2010)
  • John Mitchum, American actor (d. 2001)
• September 9
  • Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
  • Petr Braiko, Soviet soldier (d. 2018)
• September 11 – Ota Šik, Czech economist and politician (d. 2004)
• September 13
  • Olle Anderberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2003)
  • Mary Midgley, English philosopher (d. 2018)
• September 14 – Kay Medford, American character actress and comedian (d. 1980)
• September 18 – Pál Losonczi, Hungarian politician (d. 2005)
• September 21
  • Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
  • Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988)
• September 23 – Tōta Kaneko, Japanese writer (d. 2018)
• September 24
  • Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (d. 1977)
  • Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d. 2018)
• September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher (d. 2012)
• September 27
  • Jayne Meadows, American actress (d. 2015)
  • James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (d. 1986)
• September 29 – Margot Hielscher, German singer and film actress (d. 2017)

October

James M. Buchanan

Donald Pleasence

Siad Barre

Pierre Trudeau

Doris Lessing

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

• October 3 – James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• October 5 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• October 6 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (d. 1995)
• October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
• October 8 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 49th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
• October 11 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
• October 16 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• October 17
  • Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
  • Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
  • Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2005)
• October 18
  • Anita O'Day, American jazz singer (d. 2006)
  • Orlando Drummond, Brazilian actor
  • Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• October 22
  • Abdulrahim Abby Farah, Somali diplomat and politician (d. 2018)
  • Doris Lessing, Persian-born English writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2013)
• October 23 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
• October 25 – Norman A. Erbe, 35th Governor of Iowa (d. 2000)
• October 26
  • Edward Brooke, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts (d. 2015)
  • Princess Ashraf of Iran (d. 2016)
  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
  • Jacob Pressman, American rabbi, co-founder of American Jewish University (d. 2015)
• October 30 – Stane Kavčič, Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1987)
• October 31 – Tong Siv Eng, Cambodian politician (d. 2001)

November

Martin Balsam

• November 1 – Aldo Mongiano, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop
• November 2 – Bill Mills, American Major League Baseball player
• November 3
  • Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
  • Bert Freed, American character actor and voice-over actor (d. 1994)
• November 4
  • Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
  • Shirley Mitchell, American actress (d. 2013)
• November 6 – Christoph Probst, German White Rose resistance member (d. 1943)
• November 9 – Eva Todor, Hungarian-born Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
• November 10
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor (d. 2013)
  • Moïse Tshombe, 2-Time Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969)
• November 14 – Lisa Otto, German soprano (d. 2013)
• November 15
  • Roy Burden, Canadian World War II pilot (d. 2005)
  • Joseph A. Wapner, American retired judge and television personality (d. 2017)
• November 16 – Georges-Hilaire Dupont, French Roman Catholic bishop
• November 18 – Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• November 19
  • Elizabeth Strohfus, American aviator (d. 2016)
  • Alan Young, British-born Canadian-American actor (d. 2016)
  • Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (d. 2010)
• November 20
  • Rugger Ardizoia, Italian-born American baseball player (d. 2015)
  • Raino Westerholm, Finnish politician (d. 2017)
• November 21 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoer (d. 2006)
• November 22 – Louise Watson, American child actress (d. 2018)
• November 26
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
  • Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer (d. 2013)
• November 28 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)

December

William Lipscomb

• December 1 – Charles Steen, American geologist and businessman (d. 2006)
• December 2 – Norma Miller, American dancer
• December 4 – I. K. Gujral, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 2012)
• December 5 – Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, British politician and historian
• December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
• December 7
  • Lis Løwert, Danish actress (d. 2009)
  • Lyndon Wainwright, British metrologist, ballroom dancer and author (d. 2018)
• December 8
  • Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (d. 1996)
  • Lorraine H. Morton, American politician (d. 2018)
• December 9 – William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• December 11
  • Paavo Aaltonen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1962)
  • Lady Anne Berry, English horticulturist
• December 13 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German World War II fighter ace (d. 1942)
• December 21
  • Ove Sprogøe, Danish actor (d. 2004)
  • Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d. 2018)
  • Doug Young, American voice actor (d. 2018)
• December 24 – Pierre Soulages, French artist
• December 25
  • Fikret Kırcan, Turkish footballer (d. 2014)
  • Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician (d. 2017)
• December 27 – Charles Sweeney, American WWII pilot (d. 2004)
• December 30 – David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015)
• December 31
  • Folke Alnevik, Swedish athlete
  • Tommy Byrne, baseball player (d. 2007)
  • Recy Taylor, American activist (d. 2017)

Possible

• Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (born between October 4, 1919, and January 2, 1920, inclusive; d. 1992)

Date unknown

• Balto, American sled dog (d. 1933)
• Wasfi al-Tal, 3-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1971)

Deaths

January–June

Theodore Roosevelt

Rosa Luxemburg

Ismail Qemali

Wilfrid Laurier

Melchora Aquino

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

• January 4 – Georg von Hertling, 7th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
• January 6
  • Max Heindel, Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (b. 1865)
  • Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
  • Jacques Vaché, French writer, associated with Surrealism (b. 1895)
• January 8 – J. Franklin Bell, Major General of the US Army (b. 1856)
• January 15
  • Karl Liebknecht, German communist politician (b. 1871; assassinated)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, German communist politician (b. 1870; assassinated)
• January 16 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• January 17 – Arichi Shinanojō, Japanese admiral (b. 1843)
• January 18
  • Prince John of the United Kingdom (b. 1905)
  • Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (b. 1842)
• January 21 – Gojong, first Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
• January 24 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania and 1st President of Albania (b. 1844)
• January 27 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
• January 28 – Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1860)
• January 31 – Nat C. Goodwin, American actor and comedian (b. 1857)
• February 2 – Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian military commander (b. 1894)
• February 4 – John C. Bates, American general (b. 1842)
• February 14 – Pál Luthár, Slovene teacher, cantor and writer (b. 1839)
• February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• February 20 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1872; assassinated)
• February 21
  • Kurt Eisner, German socialist revolutionary (b. 1867; assassinated)
  • Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (b. 1868)
• March 2 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
• March 5 – Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1850)
• March 26 – Ernest Henry, British explorer (b. 1869)
• April 4
  • Francisco Marto, Beatified, claimed to witness apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 at Fátima, Portugal (b. 1908)
  • William Crookes, British chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
• April 8 – Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman (b. 1852)
• April 9 – Sidney Drew, American stage and film actor (b. 1863)
• April 10 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879; assassinated)
• April 14 – Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1919)
• April 15 – Jane Delano, American nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862)
• April 20 – Thomas Egan, American gangster (b. 1874)
• April 21 – Jules Védrines, French pre-war aviator and wartime (WW1) pilot (b. 1881)
• April 23 – Prince Tsunehisa Takeda (b. 1882)
• April 27 – Anton Irv, Estonian military officer (b. 1886)
• May 2 – Gustav Landauer, German anarchist (b. 1870; assassinated)
• 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 9 – Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra, Dominican political figure, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1846)
• May 12 – D. M. Canright, American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (b. 1840)
• May 28 – Hermann von Spaun, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1833)
• June 15 – Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza (b. 1879)
• June 19 – Petre P. Carp, 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1837)
• 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)

July–December

Hermann Emil Fischer

Andrew Carnegie

Louis Botha

Victorino de la Plaza

Alfred Deakin

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• July 2 – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor of hole punch and ringbinder (b. 1848)
• July 5 – Eugen Leviné, German revolutionary (b. 1883; assassinated)
• July 10 – Jean Navarre, French World War I fighter ace (b. 1895)
• July 15 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• July 18 – Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, the first woman to receive an aviator's license (b. 1882)
• July 26 – Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
• August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impresario and composer (b. 1847)
• August 9
  • Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist and philosopher (b. 1834)
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
• August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1835)
• August 24 – Friedrich Naumann, German politician and pastor (b. 1860)
• August 27 – Louis Botha, Boer general, statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1862)
• September 16 – Alfred Parland, Russian architect (b. 1842)
• September 22 – Alajos Gáspár, Slovene writer in Hungary (b. 1848)
• September 27 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (b. 1843)
• September 29 – Masataka Kawase, a.k.a. Kogorō Ishikawa, Japanese political activist and diplomat (b. 1840)
• October 2 – Victorino de la Plaza, Argentinian politician, 18th President of Argentina, leader (b. 1840)
• October 6 – Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer (b. 1833)
• October 7 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd 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)
• October 22 – John Cyril Porte, Irish-born British flying boat pioneer (b. 1884)
• October 23 – Charles Judd, British missionary to China (b. 1842)
• November 3 – Terauchi Masatake, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)
• November 9 – Eduard Müller, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1848)
• November 15 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• December 2
  • Henry C. Frick, American industrialist (b. 1849)
  • Evelyn Wood, British field marshal and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1838)
• December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841)
• December 18 – Sir John Alcock, British aviator; pilot of first nonstop transatlantic flight in airplane, June 1919 (b. 1892)
• December 19 – Martin Savage, IRA commander (b. 1898)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Johannes Stark
• Chemistry – not awarded
• Physiology or Medicine – Jules Bordet
• Literature – Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
• Peace – Woodrow Wilson

Further reading

• Klingaman, William K. 1919, The Year Our World Began (1987) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar.

Primary sources and year books

• New International Year Book 1919 (1920), Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 744pp

Sources

• Phelan, Paula (2007), 1919: Misfortune's End, ZAPmedia