* 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1864 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast ( d. 1919 )

* 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2007 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager ( d. 2010 )

* 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician ( d. 1987 )

* 1919 – Rex Humbard, American preacher and television host ( d. 2007 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

* 2001 – Olivia Barclay, British astrologer ( b. 1919 )

* 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1919 )

* 2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army officer ( b. 1919 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general ( d. 1919 )

A lateral recording of Billy Murray ( singer ) | Billy Murray, from 1919

The first flight from Mascot was on 19 November 1919 when Love carried freelance movie photographer Billy Marshall up in an Avro.

They later added a pianist, Billy Vaughn ( April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991 ).

Richard " Billy " Vaughn ( April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991 ) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A & R man for Dot Records .< ref >

* Billy Hughes – builder, 1974 ( Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers as coach 1919 – 22 ; Queen's University as coach 1922 – 26 ; Ottawa Rough Riders as coach 1935 – 36 ; Lachine RCAF Manning Pool ( QRFU ) as coach 1942 – 43 ).

Snoop briefly reformed under the guidance of Wally Bunter, Billy Bunter's identical cousin, when Wally took Billy's place in a celebrated 1919 series in The Magnet, but the reformation was brief.

Australian soldiers carrying the ' little digger ' Billy Hughes down George Street after he returned from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

In May 1919, Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, and Senator George Pearce, Minister for Defence ( Australia ), in consultation with the Royal Aero Club, stated that valid aircrews must all be Australian nationals, the aircraft must have been constructed in the British Empire, and the journey must be completed within 720 consecutive hours ( 30 days ) and be completed before midnight on 31 December 1920.

* Billy Cox ( baseball ) ( 1919 – 1978 ), American Major League Baseball middle infielder

* Billy Vaughn ( 1919 – 1991 ), musician

Soon after Knox returned from Egypt, Sir Samuel Griffith retired as the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and in October 1919, Prime Minister Billy Hughes nominated Knox for apppointment as the second.

Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton " Captain Billy " Fawcett ( 1885 – 1940 ).

Fighting under the name " Bombardier Billy Wells ," he was British and British Empire Champion from 1911 until 1919, defending his title fourteen times.

* Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, the comic strip created in 1919 by Billy DeBeck that inspired the popular 1923 song, " Barney Google ( With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes )," with lyrics by Billy Rose.

In 1919 Lt. Col. Westover was detailed to the Air Service to serve as Assistant Executive Officer for Director Maj. Gen. Charles Menoher, where he butted heads with Billy Mitchell over subordination to authority, and on July 1, 1920, transferred permanently to the new Air Service branch with the rank of major.

He attempts to enter the England to Australia Air Race in 1919 but is stopped by Prime Minister Billy Hughes.

In 1919, Bishop-Barker Airplanes Limited, founded by World War I Royal Flying Corps veterans William " Billy " Bishop and William Barker, took over the aerodrome.

William " Billy " Caffyn ( 2 February 1828 in Reigate, Surrey – 28 August 1919 in Reigate ) was a famous English cricketer who played for Surrey CCC and the All-England Eleven.

Vaughn was incorporated in 1919 and in 1920 had a population of 888 according to the U. S. census.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.

* 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1919 – Huntz Hall, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher ( d. 1990 )

* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2012 )

* 1919 – Vondell Darr, American actress ( d. 2012 )

* 1919 – Virginia O ' Brien, American actress and singer ( d. 2001 )

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

* 1836 – Warren Brown, American politician ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer ( d. 2004 )

* 1996 – Jimmy Snyder, American sports commentator and bookie ( b. 1919 )

The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".

* 1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, American politician and 43rd, 51st and 53rd Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1997 )

* 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress ( b. 1919 )

* 2005 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter ( b. 1919 )

* 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress ( d. 2000 )