* 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 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 )

* István Friedrich, prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919, was born here.

István Friedrich ( 1 July 1883 – 25 November 1951 ) was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919.

István Anhalt, ( April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012 ) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer.

Born in Budapest in 1919, the son of Arnold Anhalt and Katalin Anhalt ( née Herzfeld ), Anhalt studied with Zoltán Kodály before being drafted into the forced labour service of the Hungarian Army during World War II.

* 2010 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-born American composer ( b. 1919 )

* 1919 – Georges Ulmer, French singer and composer ( d. 1989 )

* 1847 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman, impresario, and composer ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer ( d. 2002 )

Early operas from the Caucasus region include Leyli and Majnun ( 1907 ) by the Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and Absalom and Eteri ( 1913 – 1919 ) by the Georgian Zakaria Paliashvili.

* 1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer ( d. 1919 )

* February 26 – Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer ( b. 1919 )

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

* March 8 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer ( d. 1919 )

Ruggero ( or Ruggiero ) Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919 ) was an Italian opera composer.

However, during the war years, Ravel did manage some compositions, including one of his most popular works, Le tombeau de Couperin, a commemoration of the musical ideals of François Couperin, the early 18th-century composer, which premiered in 1919.

* Bulent Arel, composer ( 1919 – 1990 )

The five CD's issued by CPO with the complete string quartets by the Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg ( 1919 – 1996 ), and played by the Quatuor Danel, all have a female portrait by von Jawlensky on their cover.

** Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist ( d. 1919 )

* Alexander Courage ( 1919 – 2008 ), composer

It became one of Nazareth's greatest success, having the main theme been later tapped by the French composer Darius Milhaud in his Le Boeuf sur le Toit ( 1919 ).

* September 15-Horatio Parker, composer ( died 1919 )

In the wake of the failure of Fallen Fairies and his unhappy experience with it, German effectively ended his career as a composer of new works, only returning to composition on a few rare occasions, including a march and hymn for the coronation of King George V in 1911, his Theme and Six Diversions in 1919, and his final major work, the Othello-inspired tone poem The Willow Song in 1922.

Lex van Delden ( 1919 – 1988 ) was an important composer.

* May 22 — Charles Kjerulf, composer ( d. 1919 )

* March 8-Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer ( d. 1919 )

* March 5-Daniel B. Towner, composer ( d. 1919 )

* April 14 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs ( d. 1919 )

* May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer ( d. 1919 )