* 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 )

* Eddie Robinson ( 1919 – 2007 ), football coach.

Eddie Rickenbacker, United States Army Air Service, c. 1919

While the money was to go to Eddie Livingstone to settle his NHA club, it never was received by Mr. Livingstone and appears to have been appropriated by Mr. Calder .< ref >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, pg. 212 </ ref > The incorporation date of the club was December 22, 1919, and listed Fred Hambly, Percy Hambly, Paul Ciceri and Charlie Querrie with 99 shares each, and Richard Greer with 4 shares.

Orteig offered the prize in 1919 after attending a dinner honouring the American flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker.

: 4 Eddie Collins ( 1910, 1919, 1923 – 1924 )

* Eddie Emerson – player ( C / FB / LB ), 1963 ( Ottawa Rough Riders 1912 – 15, 1919 – 35, 1937, as team president 1930 – 31, 1947 – 51 ).

* Eddie Robinson ( American football coach ) ( 1919 – 2007 ), American college football coach at Grambling State University

1919 photograph of Eddie Cicotte, public domain.

* Eddie Johnson ( racing driver ) ( 1919 – 1974 ), American racecar driver

Later, Eddie met his second wife, Mildred Frisby, at the newspaper and they were married on July 16, 1919 outside the Catholic Church and in secret.

* Eddie Miller ( songwriter ) ( 1919 – 1977 ), American songwriter in the country music genre

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia, during a Spanish flu and smallpox epidemic.

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

** Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player ( b. 1919 )

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.

Robinson was the youngest of three children ; his older sister Marie was born in 1917 and his older sister Evelyn was born in 1919.

William Howard Robinson: A Welsh Victory at the National Sporting Club, 31 March 1919.

Robinson joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when pianist Henry Ragas died in the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1919.

In 1919, Robinson co-wrote the song " Though We're Miles and Miles Apart " with W. C.

* Jackie Robinson ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player

On 19 December 1919 an IRA unit of 11 volunteers, including Seán Treacy, Seamus Robinson, Seán Hogan, Paddy Daly ( Leader ), Joe Leonard, Martin Savage, and Dan Breen ( who later said that the threats were not based on “ personal animosity ”) sought to ambush French as he returned from Ashtown railway station ( he was returning by train from Drumdoe ) to the Vice-Regal Lodge in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

* John Robinson ( bishop of Woolwich ) ( 1919 – 1983 ), British Bishop of Woolwich and Dean of Trinity College

In 1918 and 1919, EE took over Dick, Kerr & Co., Willans & Robinson of Rugby and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company of Bradford.

* Joe Robinson ( 1919 – 1991 ), played for Blackpool F. C.

* Jackie Robinson: ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player, Civil Rights pioneer

John Arthur Thomas Robinson ( 1919 in Canterbury, England – 5 December 1983 at Cambridge ) was a New Testament scholar, author and a former Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, England.

Bishop Ida B. Robinson began pastoring the church in 1919.

Yorkshire won the first post-war Championship in 1919, a year which saw the debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Emmott Robinson, and remained a dominant force in the County Championship until the Second World War.

Julia Hall Bowman Robinson ( December 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985 ) was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.

* John A. T. Robinson ( 1919 – 1983 ), Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, author of Honest to God ; later in life returned to orthodoxy, and dedicated himself to demonstrating very early authorship of the New Testament writings, publishing his findings in Redating the New Testament.

Edward Gay Robinson ( February 13, 1919 – April 3, 2007 ) was an American football coach.

Beard, Robinson resigned from Columbia in May 1919 to become one of the founders of the New School for Social Research and serve as its first director.