* 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 )

* Dino De Laurentiis ( 1919 – 2010 ), Italian film producer

Agostino " Dino " De Laurentiis ( 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010 ) was an Italian film producer.

In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat ( a. k. a. the Fascist Manifesto ).

D ' Annunzio and Fascist Alceste De Ambris developed the quasi-fascist Italian Regency of Carnaro, a city-state in Fiume, from 1919 to 1920.

In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed the chair's colors after becoming influenced by the ' De Stijl ' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect.

Advanced sound-on-film – In 1919, American inventor Lee De Forest was awarded several patents that would lead to the first sound-on-film technology with commercial application.

Title page to 1919 edition of " The Adventures of Cyrano De Bergerac ".

The Futurist art movement was important for the development of the noise aesthetic, as was the Dada art movement ( a prime example being the Antisymphony concert performed on April 30, 1919 in Berlin ), and later the Surrealist and Fluxus art movements, specifically the Fluxus artists Joe Jones, Yasunao Tone, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition, early LaMonte Young and Takehisa Kosugi.

* Éamon De Valera unveils statue of Robert Emmet in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 20 July 1919

Jan Petersen in De Norske Vikingsverd (" The Norwegian Viking Swords ", 1919 ) introduced the most widely-used classification of swords of the Viking Age, discriminating twenty-six types labelled A – Z.

De Chirico is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, his metaphysical period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images.

In autumn, 1919, De Chirico published an article in Valori Plastici entitled " The Return of Craftsmanship ", in which he advocated a return to traditional methods and iconography.

De Volkskrant was founded in 1919 and is a daily morning newspaper since 1921.

He spent eight years ( 1919 – 1927 ) there, until he married the first of his four wives, Estelle De Wolfe.

* De la méthode dans les sciences, Baillaud, Borel ... Librairie Félix Alcan ( 1919 )

* De ode ( 1919 ) ( The Ode )

* De boomen ( 1919 )-from Najaar II

* De schoone en stichtelijke historie van Genoveva van Brabant ( 1921 )-short version of the work from 1919

De Basil was demobilised from the army in 1919 and worked as an entrepreneur in Paris.

Chapman was bestowed many honours over his career including the Smith Prize in 1913, election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919, Royal Society Bakerian lecturer in 1931, Royal Society Royal Medal in 1934, London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal in 1944.

Evelyn De Morgan ( 30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919 ) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter.

* The Gilded Cage ( 1919 ), De Morgan Centre, London.

De la Vallée Poussin ( 1919, pp. 7-8 ) mentions both names ( 1 ) " modulus of continuity " and ( 2 ) " modulus of oscillation " and then concludes " but we choose ( 1 ) to draw attention to the usage we will make of it ".

* Phonofilm, patented by Lee De Forest in 1919, defunct by 1929