* 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 )

Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, founded in 1919 as the second university of Czechoslovakia, is named after him.

The Volksdeutsche of Iglau / Jihlava relied on peaceful opposition to the Czech military occupation of their region, a process that started on 31 October 1918 and was completed on 28 January 1919.

The territory was entered by the Czech military on 23 January 1919, after negotiations with Poland broke down.

The condition was first described in 1907 by the French neurologist Pierre Marie, and another early case was reported in a Czech study in 1919.

Aero Vodochody ( commonly referred to as Aero ; Vodochody is a location ) is a Czech ( and Czechoslovak ) aircraft company, active from 1919, notable for producing the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatros, L-59 Super Albatros and the L-159 Alca.

The reason for the Czech invasion in 1919 was primarily the organisation of elections to the Sejm ( parliament ) of Poland in the disputed area.

In 1918 the party changed its name from Czech National Social Party to the Czech Socialist Party, in 1919 to Czechoslovak Socialist Party and then in 1926 to the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party.

The impetus for the Czech invasion in 1919 was Poland's organising of elections to the Sejm ( parliament ) of Poland in the disputed area.

However, the new Czech-dominated government stood on the unity of the Bohemian ( or now called Czech ) lands, as confirmed by the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and considered the Pan-German party to be offensive and dangerous for the existence of the country.

* 1918: The party merged with the ⇒ Czech State Rights Radical Party, the National Party and others into the mainly conservative Czech State Rights Democrats ( Česká státoprávní demokracie ), renamed in 1919 as the Czechoslovak National Democrats ( Československá národní demokracie ).

* 1918: The party was reorganized into the Czech Socialist Party ( Česká socialistická strana ), from 1919 the Czechoslovak Socialist Party ( Československá socialistická strana ).

Slovakia was occupied by Czech troops in December 1918, despite a Hungarian counter-offensive in Summer 1919.

In 1919 Vladislav returned to Prague to continue his university studies ; from 1919-1920 he published many art reviews in daily newspaper České slovo ( The Czech Word ).

Ota Šik ( September 11, 1919 – August 22, 2004 ) was a Czech economist and politician.

Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university ( after Charles University 1348, Palacký University 1573 ), it now consists of nine faculties and 42, 182 students.

The Slovak Soviet Republic ( Slovak: Slovenská republika rád, Hungarian: Szlovák Tanácsköztársaság, literally: " Slovak Republic of Councils "-the name originated before the Russian word soviet ( council ) became widespread in Slovak and other languages ) comprised a very short-lived communist state in south and eastern Slovakia from 16 June to 7 July 1919, with its capital in Prešov, and headed by the Czech journalist Antonín Janoušek.

The City Theatre was hired by German and Hungarian professional theatre companies, but beginning in 1919 ( at the creation of Czechoslovakia ), it was used by Czech and later also Slovak ensembles ( see above ).

In 1919, he led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.

During the war they lived for a short time in Bohemia ( Czech Lands ), and moved to newly re-established Poland in 1919.

The first Czech football club SK Liberec was established after World War I, on 11 May 1919.

* 29 August – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter ( b. 1919 ).

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.