* 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 )

Image: Juan Gris-Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin. jpg | Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin, 1919, Private collection, Paris.

Image: Juan Gris-Harlequin with Guitar. jpg | Harlequin with Guitar, 1919, Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.

* 1919 – Eva Perón, Argentine actress and First Lady, wife of Juan Perón ( d. 1952 )

Juan Gris: Pierrot, 1919.

* Spanish — Carmona, Fernando Briones: Melancholy Pierrot ( 1945 ); Dalí, Salvador: Pierrot with Guitar ( 1924 ), Pierrot Playing the Guitar ( 1925 ); Gris, Juan ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1919 ), Pierrot ( 1921 ), Pierrot Playing Guitar ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Book ( 1924 )— see images at right of page ; Picasso, Pablo ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1918 ), Pierrot and Harlequin ( 1920 ), Three Musicians ( 1921 ; two versions ), Portrait of Adolescent as Pierrot ( 1922 ), Paul as Pierrot ( 1925 ); Valle, Evaristo: Pierrot ( 1909 ).

María Eva Duarte de Perón (; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952 ) was an Argentine political leader, the second wife of President Juan Perón ( 1895 – 1974 ) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

The works included Little French Girl ( 1914 – 18 ) by Brâncuşi, an untitled still life ( 1916 ) by Juan Gris, a bronze sculpture ( 1919 ) by Alexander Archipenko and three collages ( 1919 – 21 ) by German Hanoverian Dadaist Schwitters.

The first successful rotorcraft of any type, however, wasn't a true helicopter, but an autogyro invented by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva in 1919.

Juan Bautista Quirós Segura ( January 18, 1853-November 7, 1934 ) was president of Costa Rica for two weeks, from August 20 to September 2, 1919, following the resignation of Federico Tinoco.

Former presidents: Cornelio Nable ( 1901 – 1902 ), Juan Aguilocho ( 1902 – 1903 ), Vicente Dominguez ( 1903 – 1904 ), Florencio Morente ( 1905 – 1906 ), Juan Morente ( 1907 – 1912 ), Jesus Dominuez ( 1913 – 1915 ), Jose Benitez ( 1915 – 1916 ), Elias Semilla ( 1916 – 1919 ), Carlos Aguilocho, Francisco Laurea ( 1925 – 1928 ), Anacleto Villamin ( 1928 – 1929 ), Conrado M. Morente ( 1929 – 1930, 1931 – 1934 ), Felipe Venturanza ( 1934 – 1938 ), ( 1938 – 1940 ), Dr. Abelardo Bunag ( 1941 – 1942 ), Carlos Aguilocho ( 1942 – 1943 ), Manuel Medina ( 1943 – 1945 ), Thomas B. Villamin ( 1946 – 1947 ). Dominador Madrid ( 1948 – 1951 ), Dr. Pio Baldos ( 1952 – 1955 ).

It was around the same time that Juan " Pacho " Maglio and José María Rizzutti recorded the tango Meditación which di Sarli had composed around 1919 but never recorded himself.

In 1919, land was set aside to create a large recreational park for the residents of San Juan.

Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra ( 1846 – May 9, 1919 ) was a Dominican political figure.

In 1918, he was the Director for the City of San Juan ; from 1919 to 1921, he was the Under-Secretary of Health ; from 1921-23 the Director of Health in city ; from 1923-29 he was once again Under-Secretary of Health and from 1930-33 the Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico.

The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).

* Juan Terrazas Cuilty ( 1852 – 1925 ), a son of Luis Terrazas and Carolina Cuilty ( 1833 – 1919 ), businessman and industrialist.

He was Minister of War and Navy of President Juan Luis Sanfuentes between 1919 and 1920 ; and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1948 and 1950, under President Gabriel González Videla.

Appointed Municipal President effective 1 January 1919 was then Councilor Catalino Pareja with Calixtro Espinoza as Vice Municipal President while Messrs. Feleciano Arquiza, Juan L. Garcia, Lorenzo Elizalde and Canuto Consuegra were appointed as Municipal Councilors.

* Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra ( 1847 – 1919 ), President of the Dominican Republic

POA was founded in 1919 by Juan R. Escudero.

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.

Henry John Heinz ( October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 ) was an American businessman of German descent who founded the H. J. Heinz Company.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

The classic multivibrator circuit ( also called a plate-coupled multivibrator ) is first described by H. Abraham and E. Bloch in Publication 27 of the French Ministère de la Guerre, and in Annales de Physique 12, 252 ( 1919 ).

H. Ahlberg & Co workshop in Turku, where he worked until he started his military service at a machine gun company in the Pori Brigade in April 1919.

On 8 April 1919, naval Admiral W. H. G. Bullard and Captain Stanford C. Hooper met with executives of the General Electric Corporation ( GE ) and asked them to discontinue selling the company's Alexanderson alternators ( used in the high-power AM radio transmitters of that era ) to the British-owned Marconi Company, and to its subsidiary, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

* 1919 – Charles H. Percy, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* 1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician ( d. 1986 )

< p > In December 1919, Major E. H. Armstrong gave publicity to an indirect method of obtaining short-wave amplification, called the super-heterodyne.

After some soundings were made in 1918 by Reginald Campbell Thompson, H. R. Hill worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow.

To combat the stability problems and limited voltage gain due to the Miller effect, the physicist Walter H. Schottky invented the tetrode tube in 1919.

** James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician ( b. 1919 )

* Mencken, H. L. The American Language ( 1919, 1921 )

Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.

Aldington and H. D. attempted to mend their marriage in 1919, after the birth of her daughter by a friend of writer D. H. Lawrence, named Cecil Gray, with whom she had become involved and lived with while Aldington was at war.

In 1919, Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential modern artists, created L. H. O. O. Q., a Mona Lisa parody made by adorning a cheap reproduction with a moustache and a goatee.

Spaceflight became an engineering possibility with the work of Robert H. Goddard's publication in 1919 of his paper ' A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes '; where his application of the de Laval nozzle to liquid fuel rockets gave sufficient power for interplanetary travel to become possible.

* E. H. Carr Twenty Years Crisis ( 1940 ), 1919 – 39

The tetrode tube was developed by Dr. Walter H. Schottky of Siemens & Halske GMBH in Germany in 1919.

Mitchell hosted a number of manufacturers, including ( in 1919 ) the wagon, truck and bus body enterprises of Ralph H. Carpenter which became known as the Carpenter Body Company.

* John H. Capstick ( 1856 – 1918 ), represented 5th congressional district from 1918 to 1919.

Canon C. D. H. McMillan, Vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919.

In 1919, H. D.