* 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 – 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 )

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

* Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare ( 1919 – 2005 )

For example, in the 1919 book Chemistry of Human Life physician George W. Carey states that, " Health depends on a proper amount of iron phosphate Fe < sub > 3 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > in the blood, for the molecules of this salt have chemical affinity for oxygen and carry it to all parts of the organism.

In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.

* 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.

* 1919 – George Weissman, American businessman ( d. 2009 )

* 1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

* 1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day ( later Remembrance Day ).

* 2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral ( b. 1919 )

* A. T. Murray ( revised by George E. Dimock ), 1919 ; Loeb Classical Library ( ISBN 0-674-99561-9 ).

Lloyd George said after victory that " the nation was now in a molten state ", and his Housing Act 1919 would lead to affordable council housing which allowed people to move out of Victorian inner-city slums.

* September 13 – George Wallace, American politician ( b. 1919 )

David Kirkwood being detained by police during the 1919 Battle of George Square | Battle of George Square

" The Big Four " during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 | Paris Peace Conference ( from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, George Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson ).

** George Gobel, American comedian ( b. 1919 )

* September 19 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize ( b. 1919 )

For instance, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was never featured in the Follies, and the number " Pretty Girl " was written for the 1919 Follies, not the first edition of the revue, as shown in the film.

The band's 1919 appearance at the London Hippodrome was the first official jazz gig by any band in the United Kingdom and was followed by a command performance for King George V at Buckingham Palace.

The day was specifically dedicated by King George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrance for members of the armed forces who were killed during World War I.

They appeared in the 1919 Tournament East-West football game again, one year later, losing by a 17-0 score to a Great Lakes Naval Station team that included future football legends George Halas, Paddy Driscoll and Jimmy Conzelman.

Broken Blossoms premiered in May 1919, at the George M. Cohan Theatre in New York City as part of the D. W. Griffith Repertory Season.

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.

* 1919 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist ( Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito ) ( d. 2003 )

** Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer, leukemia ( b. 1919 )

* February 4 – Liberace, American pianist ( b. 1919 )

In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles — one of a number of New Orleans musicians to do so near that time — and he recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt Carey, clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and string bassist Ed Garland.

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

* Raymond Smullyan ( born 1919 ), American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher, and magician

Rubén González ( May 26, 1919 – December 8, 2003 ) was a Cuban pianist and member of the group Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito.

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

* Rubén González ( 1919 – 2003 ), Cuban pianist

* Rubén González ( pianist ) ( 1919 – 2003 ), Cuban pianist

Rostom Sipan " Ross " Bagdasarian ( January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972 ) was an American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

* Roman Vlad ( born 1919 ), Italian composer, pianist and musicologist

Herbie Nichols ( 3 January 1919 – 12 April 1963 ), was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard " Lady Sings the Blues ".

However, he was the pianist in the first performance of Elgar's Violin Sonata in E minor in 1919, with W. H.

* Detlef Kraus ( 1919 – 2008 ), German pianist

Luther Henderson ( March 14, 1919 – July 29, 2003 ) was an African American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist.

Cobbett ( b 1847 ), a chamber-music specialist, had founded the Cobbett Competition in 1905 for a short form of String Quartet composition or ' Phantasy ', and for other short chamber works, prizes won variously by William Yeates Hurlstone ( 1876-1906, pianist ) ( 1905 ), Frank Bridge ( 1908 ), John Ireland ( 1909 ), J. Cliffe Forrester ( 1916 ), H. Waldo Warner ( viola of the London Quartet ) ( 1916 ), York Bowen ( 1918 ) and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs ( 1919 ).

Here, together with his Peruvian-born wife, Luisa Morales-Macedo, the pianist / composer not only taught until the end of the 1930s, but also raised what he called his three best compositions: his sons, Alfred ( 1919 ), Henry ( 1921 ) and Ignace ( 1923 – 1984 ).

* Joseph E. Nathaniel ( 1919 – 1993 ), blues pianist, blues singer

* Nat King Cole ( 1919 – 1965 ), pianist and singer

Gideon Klein ( 6 December 1919 – c. January 1945 ) was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Great-great-granddaughter Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck ( 1870 – 1919 ), a pianist, was married under the pseudonym " Baron Eugen Borisowitsch Onégin " to the operatic contralto Sigrid Onégin, who sang inter alia at Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden.