* 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 )

In the Italian Popular Party founded by Don Luigi Sturzo in 1919, Savonarola was revered as a champion of social justice, and after 1945 he was held up as a model of reformed Catholicism by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party.

Don Fernando de los Rios persuaded García Lorca's parents to allow the boy to enrol at the progressive, Oxbridge-inspired Residencia de estudiantes in Madrid in 1919.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.

Baker made the following G & S recordings with HMV: 1917 The Mikado ( Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush ( part ), and Pooh-Bah ( part )), 1919 The Gondoliers ( Antonio, Don Alhambra ( part ), Duke of Plaza-Toro and Giuseppe ); 1920 The Yeomen of the Guard ( Jack Point and Sergeant Meryll ( part )); 1920 The Pirates of Penzance ( Major-General Stanley ); 1921 Patience ( Bunthorne and Major ); and 1922 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ).

In 1919, the Don Cossacks joined and the Army began drafting Ukrainian peasants.

Roman Lazaro served as municipal president for three terms ( 1919 – 1922, 1931 – 1934, 1938 – 1941 ), Felipe Belarmino served for three consecutive terms ( 1923 – 1925, 1926 – 1928, 1929 – 1931 ) and again in 1943, Don Eduardo A. Barretto from 1935-1937.

Don Cornell ( April 21, 1919 – February 23, 2004 ) was an American singer prominent mainly in the 1940s and 1950s noted for his smooth but robust baritone voice.

According to historian Michael Kort, " During 1919 and 1920, out of a population of approximately 1. 5 million Don Cossacks, the Bolshevik regime killed or deported an estimated 300, 000 to 500, 000 ".

In 1919 he was among of the founders of the Italian People's Party ( – PPI ), with Don Luigi Sturzo.

As told to Isaac Don Levine ( New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1919 )

* Zorro, the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, whose fathers name is Alejandro de la Vega, created in 1919 by writer Johnston McCulley

* Don Cornell ( 1919 – 2004 ), American singer

1917 saw the city change hands three times, until it was taken on April 28, 1919, by the Don Army, under General Fitzkhelaurov.

Don Jaime and Emmanuelle de Dampierre Ruspoli divorced on 4 May 1947 in Bucharest ( recognized by the Italian courts in 1949 but never recognized in Spain ) and, on 3 August 1949 in Innsbruck, Don Jaime remarried civilly to divorced singer Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann ( Königsberg, 2 January 1919 – Berlin, 3 July 1979 ), daughter of Otto Eugen Tiedemann and wife Luise Klein.

The peoples of the Black and Caspian Sea basins — Ukraine, Don Cossacks, Kuban, Crimea, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Northern Caucasus — emancipated themselves politically in 1919 – 1921 but then lost their independence to Soviet Russia.

* Don Flor Evidente ( 1919 – 1922 )

The aerial activity in Cartagena began early last century when businessman Don Cartagena Nemesio de la Espriella and Don Guillermo Echavarria Antioch negotiations began in late 1919 to acquire a Farman F-40 aircraft made in France, the I arrive at the port which packed in boxes and disarming.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university.

He lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1917 ; in 1919 he became an American citizen.

After ΦΛA was organized, other societies joined it: the " Club Latino-Americano " founded in 1919 at Colorado School of Mines ; the " Federación Latino-Americana " founded in 1926 at Columbia University which joined in 1928 ; the " Club Hispania " founded in 1929 of Cornell University which joined in 1931 ; the " Club Hispano-Americano " founded in 1921 of Tri State College in Angola which joined in 1929 and the Alfa Tenoxtitlan Militant chapter founded in 1929 made up of members of the old ΦΛA in Mexico.

He graduated from Washburn University in 1919 and entered the Cornell University College of Medicine, graduating in 1924.

* Robert J. Cornell ( 1919 – 2009 ), Democratic U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin from 1975 – 1979 and professor of political science at St. Norbert College.

The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).

* Robert John Cornell ( 1919 – 2009 ), American priest and politician representing Wisconsin in the House of Representatives

In 1919 he started his PhD at Cornell University, his work was on maize genetics and was supervised by Rollins A. Emerson.

After one year's service in the army he was demobilised in 1919 and entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to study agriculture.