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
- 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
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- February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
- February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
March
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- 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
- April 8 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
- April 13 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
May
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- 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
- June 6 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)
- June 14 – June Spencer, English actress
July
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- 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
September
- September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
October
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- 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
- November 4 – Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
December
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
1919 Media
David Kirkwood being detained by police during the Battle of George Square
"The Big Four" during the Paris Peace Conference (from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson).
Romanian troops entering Budapest
Friedrich Ebert becomes president in Weimar, Germany
Cropped screenshot of Carole Landis from the film Topper Returns.
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
A photo of Janet Waldo
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