* 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.

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

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

* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )

* 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 )

The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

On 7 August 1919, Charles Godefroy successfully flew his biplane under the Arc.

Artemus Ward ( Charles Farrar Browne ): a biography and bibliography ( 1919 ) ( full text online )

Captain Charles Fryatt lived in Harwich ; his body was brought back from Belgium in 1919 and he was buried at Dovercourt.

* 1919 – Charles H. Percy, American politician ( d. 2011 )

** Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet, Australian businessman ( d. 1919 )

* March 23 – Charles Wyndham, English actor and theatrical manager ( d. 1919 )

In protest of his jailing, Charles Ruthenberg led a parade of unionists, socialists, anarchists and communists to march on May 1 ( May Day ) 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1919, Robinson collaborated with Handy and Charles N. Hillman on " Though We're Miles and Miles Apart ", which was released by Handy's publishing company.

* Chic Murray ( Charles Murray, 1919 – 1985 ), Scottish comic

In 1919, Congressman Charles F. Curry introduced legislation providing for an Academy, but concerns about cost, curriculum and location led to its demise.

* Charles Morieux ( 1912 – 1919 )

In 1919, Governor Charles Hillman Brough requested federal troops to stop the Elaine Race Riot.

His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

Charles Fort's 1919 The Book of the Damned exposed to a small but influential group of readers to Fort's extensive references to unidentified objects.

** Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist ( d. 1919 )

In 1919 Menninger returned to Topeka where, together with his father, Charles Frederick Menninger, he founded the Menninger Clinic.

They believe that Jesus Christ has been ruling in heaven as king since 1914 ( a date they believe was prophesied in Scripture ), and that after that time a period of cleansing occurred, resulting in God's selection of the Bible Students associated with Charles Taze Russell to be his people in 1919.

A series in 1916 depicted Franz Josef, the Austrian crown, and the coat of arms, and between 1917 and 1919 Emperor Charles I briefly made an appearance on stamps before the republic was established.

Charles Steinmetz, who came from Germany in 1889, developed new alternating-current electrical systems at General Electric Company, and Vladimir Zworykin, who left Russia in 1919 and later invented a television camera.

They included chemist and physicist William Crookes ( 1832 – 1919 ), evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 – 1913 ) and Nobel-laureate physiologist Charles Richet.

As a result of Charles Edward fighting for Germany against the British in the First World War, he was stripped of his British titles in 1919.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919.

* Charles Henry Hitchcock ( 1836 – 1919 ), American geologist