* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

* 1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary ( d. 1874 )

* 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer ( d. 1895 )

Theseus Fighting the Centaur ( 1804 – 1819 ), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

**** House of Bourbon – Molina or Carlist branch ( 1819 – 1936 )

**** House of Bourbon – de Paula branch or Alfonsine branch ( 1819 – present ) ( became Anjou branch in 1933 )

* 1742 – Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist ( d. 1899 )

In 1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with Robert Jameson ( 1774 – 1854 ), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh magazine.

The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.

* 1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen consort of Spain ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( d. 1898 )

* 1819 – John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco ( d. 1873 )

* 1819 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer ( d. 1870 )

* 1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician ( d. 1892 )

* January 8 – Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, American admiral ( b. 1819 )

It is named in honor of Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi congressman who served from 1819 to 1826.

Christopher Latham Sholes ( February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890 ) was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today.

He also carved figureheads for the U. S. Navy frigates ( John Adams, 1799, whereabouts unknown ), ( Hercules, 1799, burned 1804 ), and ( Captain John Smith, 1822, whereabouts unknown ); along with the gun-ships ( Benjamin Franklin, 1815, U. S. Naval Academy Museum ), ( Christopher Columbus, 1819, whereabouts unknown ), ( Sir Walter Raleigh, 1820, whereabouts unknown ), and ( Hercules, 1824 – 37, attributed to Rush or his son John, whereabouts unknown ).

* Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers ( November 4, 1819 – January 8, 1892 ) was an officer in the United States Navy.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

* 1819 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( d. 1891 )

* 1819 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer ( d. 1890 )

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

* 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general ( d. 1893 )

* 1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine ( d. 1867 )

* 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician ( d. 1886 )

* 1819 – Thomas A. Hendricks, American politician, 21st Vice President of the United States ( d. 1885 )

* October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist and poet ( b. 1819 )

* March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet ( b. 1819 )

* August 12 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( b. 1819 )

* September 28 – Herman Melville, American novelist ( b. 1819 )

* March 21 – Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar ( b. 1819 )

* July 1 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective ( b. 1819 )

* October 8 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire ( b. 1819 )

* November 29 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher ( d. 1819 )

* August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )