* 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 – 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 )

Other good examples of this technique for eliminating several yards of waste space and a few seconds of waste time can be seen in Ralph Ince's films, particularly The Right Girl ( 1915 ), and by 1919 it was widely diffused in American films, but not in those made in Europe.

Ralph Hepburn on his Harley racing bike in this 1919 photo.

Also in 1919 sodium nitrate ( NaNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and caesium dichloroiodide ( CsICl < sub > 2 </ sub >) were determined by Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, and the wurtzite ( hexagonal ZnS ) structure became known in 1920.

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.

Ralph DePalma in his Packard ' 905 ' Special at Daytona Beach Road Course | Daytona Beach in 1919

( 1 ) 27 January 1943 Maj Hon Simon Nevill Astley ( b. 13 August 1919 ; d. 16 March 1946 ), 2nd son of Albert Edward Delaval, 21st Baron Hastings, by his wife Lady Margueritte Helen Nevill, only child by his second wife of Henry Gilbert Ralph, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny.

* 1919 in art-Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus

In 1919, an exhibition match was arranged between six-year-old Mosconi and the reigning World Champion, Ralph Greenleaf.

Probably the earliest concept of the " iron triangle " was on January 17, 1919 by Ralph Pulitzer.

* Ralph Pulitzer, Charles H. Grasty ; Forces at War in Peace Conclave ; The New York Times ( January 18, 1919 )

In 1919, Ralph E. Heilman, a Northwestern graduate with a doctorate from Harvard, was appointed dean of the school.

# Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot ( 26 February 1919 – 20 April 1963 ) who was thrice married ; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting ( 9 Sep 1917-k. a. Middle East Jan 1943 ), by whom she had one daughter Davina ( 1940 – 1976 ); m. 2nd 24 Feb 1945 ( annulled 1949 ) David Frederick Hew Dunn ( b. 1917 ); m. 3rd 22 Dec 1949 Ralph Alexander Rubens ( died 1995 ) by whom she had one daughter Alexandra ( b. 1950 ).

In 1919, the Eckhart brothers sold out to a group of Chicago investors headed by Ralph Austin Bard, who later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and as Undersecretary of the Navy for President Roosevelt and for President Harry S. Truman.

Ralph became a member of the Bombay Natural History Society in 1919, the same year in which he married Heather, daughter of another BNHS member Angus M. Kinloch, who lived in Kotagiri in the Nilgiris.

Ralph DePalma and his Packard V-12 in 1919

* Ralph Pearson, ( born 1919 ), physical inorganic chemist.

Ralph Albert Blakelock ( October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919 ) was a romanticist painter from the United States.

The station was founded at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts ( now New Mexico State University ) by Ralph Willis Goddard, and began broadcasting tests in 1919 under the call letters 5XD.

Carpenter was founded in Mitchell, Indiana in 1919 by Ralph H. Carpenter, a blacksmith by trade.

* February 2 – Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railway 1919 – 1932 and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1932 – 1949 ( b. 1879 ).

He began boxing in 1919 as " Ralph Giordano " ( later changed in " Young Corbett III ") while still a 14-year-old " newsboy.

Maurice Ralph Hilleman ( August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005 ) was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist.

Ralph George Houk ( August 9, 1919 – July 21, 2010 ), nicknamed The Major, was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball.

The estate was passed on to his niece, Eleanor Cabot ( daughter of his brother, Godfrey Lowell Cabot ), who married Major Ralph Bradley in 1919.