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* 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )
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* 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 )
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Merce Cunningham ( 1919 – 2009 ) introduced chance procedures and composition by field.
Mercier " Merce " Philip Cunningham ( April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009 ) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years.
Merce Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington in 1919, the second of three sons.
* Merce Cunningham ( 1919 – 2009 ), American choreographer
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* John Francis Cunningham ( 1842 – 1919 ), Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
William Cunningham ( December 29, 1849, Edinburgh, Scotland – June 10, 1919, Cambridge ) was a British economist.
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* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).
As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.
* 1919 – Huntz Hall, American actor ( d. 1999 )
* 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher ( d. 1990 )
* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )
* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )
* 1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2012 )
* 1919 – Vondell Darr, American actress ( d. 2012 )
* 1919 – Virginia O ' Brien, American actress and singer ( d. 2001 )
Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
* 1836 – Warren Brown, American politician ( d. 1919 )
* 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer ( d. 2004 )
* 1996 – Jimmy Snyder, American sports commentator and bookie ( b. 1919 )
The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".
* 1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, American politician and 43rd, 51st and 53rd Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1997 )
* 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress ( b. 1919 )
* 2005 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter ( b. 1919 )
* 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress ( d. 2000 )
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