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1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
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
- February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
- February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
March
- 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
1919 Media
- 1919 Battle of George Square - David Kirkwood.jpg
David Kirkwood being detained by police during the Battle of George Square
- Council of Four Versailles.jpg
"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
- Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-042-11, Weimar, Vereidigung Reichspräsident Ebert.jpg
Friedrich Ebert becomes president in Weimar, Germany
- Carole Landis in Topper Returns.jpg
Cropped screenshot of Carole Landis from the film Topper Returns.
- Giulio Andreotti, ca 1987.jpg
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
- Janet-Waldo 2013-11-16 (cropped).jpg
A photo of Janet Waldo
– Norman Spencer, English film producer
September
- September 19 – Prakash Kaur, Indian folk singer
- 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