* 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 )

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

* Sir Ludovic Kennedy ( 1919 – 2009 ), broadcaster and writer

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Shortly after their marriage, on March 11, 1919 Edna gave birth to their only son, Mercer Kennedy Ellington.

* William John Kennedy ( 1919 – 2005 ), Australian activist

McGeorge " Mac " Bundy ( March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996 ) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979.

* Uncle Jack Kennedy ( 1919 – 2005 ), activist and spokesman for Australian Aboriginal rights

* John Wilfred Kennedy was elected as a United Farmers of Ontario-Labour MP for Glengarry and Stormont in a 1919 by-election.

John Wilfred Kennedy, a farmer, was elected as a United Farmers of Ontario-Labour MP for Glengarry and Stormont in a 1919 by-election.

His brother, McGeorge Bundy ( 1919 – 1996 ), was also an integral part of the both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was also a member of Yale's Skull and Bones.

In 1919 the company became part of the Northumberland Shipbuilding Group, with Alexander Kennedy installed as managing director.

Canadiens owner George Kennedy never recovered from the influenza he contracted in 1919, and died on October 19, 1921 at age 39.

* Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa 16 November 1919 – 1937

Mead, Brown, Kennedy and Newman were in the prime during this period, and they had the services of Lord Tennyson who captained the side from 1919 – 1932 as well as captaining the England team in three Tests, and the occasional aid of many other amateurs including the great C. B. Fry, who averaged an amazing 102 in seven games during 1912.

She married 3 times: to John Robinson, a hotel waiter, whom she divorced in 1914 ; to Dr. Wiley Wilson in 1919 ; and to Dr. James Arthur Kennedy, in 1926, whom she divorced just a few months before her death in 1931.

Rescuers began re-opening tunnels from the Kennedy Mine which had been closed since an earlier fire in 1919.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

* 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.

* 2012 – Ambrose Weekes, British alglican bishop ( b. 1919 )

After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.

* Frank Laurence Lucas, ' The Battlefield of Pharsalos ', Annual of the British School at Athens, No. XXIV, 1919 – 21

In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

Attacks against the RIC escalated during 1919, and in September the British administration outlawed the Dáil.

Nationalists staged large-scale demonstrations in Cairo in 1919, five years after Egypt had been declared a British protectorate.

The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The British imposed a tight naval blockade in the North Sea which lasted until 1919, sharply reducing Germany's overseas access to raw materials and foodstuffs.

John MacLean emerged as a key political figure in what became known as Red Clydeside, and in January 1919, the British Government, fearful of a revolutionary uprising, deployed tanks and soldiers in central Glasgow.

Habibullah, Abdur Rahman's son and successor, was assassinated in 1919, possibly by family members opposed to British influence.

During the ensuing conflict, the war-weary British relinquished their control over Afghan foreign affairs by signing the Treaty of Rawalpindi in August 1919.

Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland in the 1919 – 21 Irish War of Independence.

The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion in the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland's south coast.

* 1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.

* 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

After the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, the city was air raided by the British Royal Air Force.

* 1919 – Christopher Challis, British cinematographer