* 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 – 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 )

* September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( b. 1819 )

Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898 ) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

He had ten children, including five sons, Henry ( 1818 – 1855 ), Ernest ( 1819 – 1903 ), Karl ( 1821 – 1887 ), Georg ( 1824 – 1896 ) and Theodor ( 1832 – 1892 ).

* German: Die drei Raben, a quite literal translation of The Three Ravens, by Theodor Fontane ( 1819 – 1898 ).

* 1865 to 1885 Theodor Harms ( born 19 March 1819, died 16 February 1885 )

* Theodor Brorsen ( 1819 – 1895 ) – Danish astronom and botanist

The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.

* 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher ( d. 1819 )

The first edition of the first part of the Grammar ( which appeared in 1819 ), and is now extremely rare, treated of the inflections of all these languages, and included a general introduction, in which he vindicated the importance of an historical study of the German language against the a priori, quasi-philosophical methods then in vogue.

* 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and author ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman ( d. 1901 )

* 1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian ( d. 1883 )

Friedrich Martinus von Bodenstedt ( 1819 – 1892 ) published a German translation in 1881.

* 1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian ( b. 1819 )

* 1819 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer ( d. 1896 )

* January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher ( d. 1819 )

* May 20 – Clara Schumann, German composer ( b. 1819 )

* September 21 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian ( b. 1819 )

* September 20, 1819 – The Carlsbad Decree is issued throughout the German Confederation.

* November 7 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet ( d. 1819 )

* May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( d. 1819 )

* Clara Schumann ( née Wieck ) ( 1819 – 1896 ), German pianist and composer

* Jacques Offenbach ( 1819 – 1880 ), French composer of German descent

* Josepha Weber ( 1758 – 1819 ), German soprano

Wilhelm Marr ( November 16, 1819 – July 17, 1904 ) was a German agitator and publicist, who coined the term " antisemitism " ( 1881 ).