* 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 )

From Tell al-Ubaid in 1919 and 1923 – 1924, directed by H. R. Hall came the bronze furnishings of a Sumerian temple, including life-sized lions and a panel featuring the lion-headed eagle Indugud.

The family moved to Hall County in the Texas Panhandle in 1913, and in 1919 they bought a farm between the towns of Lakeview and Turkey.

* 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.

Main Building, built in 1854, and Dalton Hall, built between 1917 and 1919, are on the registry of Historic Places of Canada.

He died at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 13, 1919 from the wounds he received in battle and was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame in 1931.

Historic structures include the Foust Building ( 1891 ), Spencer Hall ( 1904, 1907 ), the Quad ( 1919 – 1923 ), the Chancellor's Residence ( 1923 ), Aycock Auditorium ( 1927 ), and Alumni House ( 1937 ).

Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during the Winnipeg General Strike, June 21, 1919

* Ella T. Grasso ( 1919 – 1981 ), first female governor of Connecticut, first woman to be elected governor in the United States who was not the wife or widow of a governor, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993

* Bob Westfall ( 1919 – 1980 ), College Football Hall of Fame member lived in Adrian

* Monte Irvin ( born 1919 ), Major League Baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

* Vince O ' Brien ( 1919 – 2010 ), character actor who appeared in Annie Hall and as the Shell Answer Man.

In 1961, Brian's largest surviving work, the Gothic Symphony, which had been written between 1919 and 1927, was first performed at Westminster Central Hall, in a partly amateur performance conducted by Bryan Fairfax, and in 1966 the first fully professional performance was given at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Boult, both occasions largely the result of Simpson's lobbying.

Orchestra Hall was completed for the new music director in 1919 in four months and twenty-three days.

The Paris 1919 album was performed, in its entirety, at the Coal Exchange Cardiff on 21 November 2009, at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 5 March 2010, and the Theatre Royal in Norwich on 14 May 2010.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bowles attended The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1919, and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1924.

She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road, London, as a child dancer ; she made her film debut in 1923 in the silent film The Beloved Vagabond.

In 1919 Oorang Kennel owner, Walter Lingo, met and became friends with Jim Thorpe of the Canton Bulldogs, a future Pro Football Hall of Famer who was considered the greatest athlete of his time.

Opening its doors at the corner of Eaton Street and River Avenue in 1919 and with only one building, Harkins Hall, the college under inaugural president Dennis Albert Casey, O. P.

* Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald ' Blinker ' Hall, 1914 – 1919

Brown & Vallance constructed the President's Residence ( 1911 – 13 ) Qu ' Appelle Hall Student Residence ( 1914 – 16 ) Physics Building ( 1919 – 21 ); Chemistry Building ( 1922 – 23 ); St. Andrew's Presbyterian College ( 1922 – 23 ); Memorial Gates ( 1927 – 28 ) and the Field Husbandry Building ( 1929 ).

For the British War Memorials Committee, he produced a design for a " Hall of Remembrance " ( 1918 ) that would have been in the form of an art gallery, and for New College, Oxford, he created a design for a tiny memorial chapel ( 1919 ).

Thereafter, members of the Royal Family would stay periodically at Rideau Hall, if not as governor general then as guests of the Crown, so that the palace played host to Prince Leopold ( later also Duke of Albany ) in 1880 ; Prince George ( later King George V ) in 1882, 1901, and 1908 ; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught ( later also the Duke and Duchess of Strathearn ), in 1890 and as the viceregal couple from 1906 to 1912 ; Princess Louise in 1900 ; Princess Patricia with her parents from 1906 to 1912 ; Prince Albert ( later King George VI ) in 1910 and 1913 ; Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VIII ), in 1919, 1923, 1924, and 1927 ; Prince George ( later also Duke of Kent ) in 1926 and 1927 ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1929.

The first established opera company in D. C. was the semi-professional Washington National Opera active from 1919 through 1936 ; it performed in venues ranging from local school auditoriums to DAR Constitution Hall.