* 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 )

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

When normalcy resumed, in 1919 – 20, Blackpool had appointed their first full-time manager in the form of Bill Norman.

" while the Polish Internetowa encyklopedia PWN as well as some Western historians like Norman Davies — consider 1919 as the starting year of the war.

* Norman Maclean, who chronicled his experience in USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

Norman Cyril Jackson VC ( 8 April 1919 – 26 March 1994 ) was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force who earned the Victoria Cross during a bombing raid on Schweinfurt, Germany in April 1944.

* White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919 – 1920 and " The Miracle on the Vistula ", Norman Davies, Pimlico Edition, London, 2003

On 2 August 1919, Godley married Ellen Eliza Norman.

In a 1919 lecture, Norman Wilkinson explained:

In the summer term of 1919 an evangelical student called Norman Grubb of Trinity College, Cambridge and a friend met with ten representatives of the Student Christian Movement ( SCM ) to discuss their concerns that SCM was promoting an overly liberal view of Christianity in the British universities.

Arthur Leslie Norman English ( 9 May 1919 – 16 April 1995 ) was an English actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.

Norman Newell, OBE ( 25 January 1919 — 1 December 2004 ) was born in Plaistow, Essex ( now Greater London ), and was a successful British record producer in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as co-writer of many notable songs.

Leslie Norman Ross ( 2 May 1895 Portland, Oregon — 19 June 1953 Evanston, Illinois ) was a United States Olympic swimmer who won five events at the Inter-Allied Games in June 1919, held at Joinville-Le-Pont near Paris and three gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

Ruby Lindsay ( 20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919 ) was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay.

The British Zionist Norman Bentwich wrote in 1919:

* 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 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

* 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 )