* 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 )

On 31 January 1919 the IRA organ, An tÓglách (" The Volunteer ") published a list of principles agreed between two representatives of the Aireacht, acting Príomh Aire Cathal Brugha and Richard Mulcahy and the Executive.

In 1919, Richard Oswald directed and released two films, that met with press controversy and action from police vice investigators and government censors.

* January 8 – Richard Hillary, Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, author of The Last Enemy ( b. 1919 )

His nephews include Richard Keynes ( 1919 – 2010 ) a physiologist ; and Quentin Keynes ( 1921 – 2003 ), an adventurer and bibliophile.

He was succeeded as editor in 1919 by Sir Richard Gregory.

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

In 1919 Richard von Mises gave the first definition of algorithmic randomness, which was inspired by the law of large numbers, although he used the term collective rather than random sequence.

This work, overlooked for nearly 200 years would share a variety of similarities with Richard Semons's work of 1919 / 1923, both assuming memories were physical and located in the brain.

In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Leavitt, a friend of Richard's older brother.

* Richard Bowyer Smith ( 1837 – 1919 ), Australian inventor

He followed this triumph with Broadway successes in Peter Ibbetson ( 1917 ), a role his father Maurice had wanted to play, Tolstoy's Redemption ( 1918 ) and The Jest ( 1919 ), co-starring his brother Lionel, reaching what seemed to be the zenith of his stage career as Richard III in 1920.

The Science Museum ’ s present quarters, designed by Sir Richard Allison, were opened to the public in stages over the period 1919 – 28.

The couple had seven children: Bridget Amice Beaumont ( 1902 – 1948 ); Francis William Lionel Beaumont ( 1903 – 1941 ) ( father of John Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark ); Cyril John Astley Beaumont ( 1905 – 1973 ); Basil Ian Beaumont ( 1908 – 1909 ); Douce Alianore Daphne Beaumont ( 1910 – 1967 ); Richard Vyvyan Dudley Beaumont ( b. 1915 ); Jehanne Rosemary Ernestine Beaumont ( b. 1919 ).

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were introduced in 1919, when both attended Columbia University, when asked to write an amateur club show.

While the money was to go to Eddie Livingstone to settle his NHA club, it never was received by Mr. Livingstone and appears to have been appropriated by Mr. Calder .< ref >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, pg. 212 </ ref > The incorporation date of the club was December 22, 1919, and listed Fred Hambly, Percy Hambly, Paul Ciceri and Charlie Querrie with 99 shares each, and Richard Greer with 4 shares.

* Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, 1900 – 1919

While the money was to go to Livingstone to settle the purchase of his NHA club, it appeared that NHL president Frank Calder kept the money .< ref >< nowiki > Holzman </ nowiki >, pg. 212 </ ref > The incorporation date of the club was December 22, 1919, and listed Fred Hambly, Percy Hambly, Paul Ciceri and Querrie with 99 shares each, and Richard Greer with 4 shares.

USPD Partei Board on 5 December 1919, Arthur Crispiens, Wilhelm Dittmann, Viktor Adler, Richard Lipinski, Wilhelm Bock, Alfred Henke Eduard Bernstein, Fritz Geyer, Fritz Zubeil, Hugo Haase, Fritz Kunert, Georg Ledebour, Arthur Hagen, Emanuel Wurm

Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG ( January 18, 1880 – March 26, 1940 ) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.

* 1919 – 20 Lewis Richard Farnell Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality

Richard Elliott Neustadt ( June 26, 1919 – October 31, 2003 ) was an American political scientist specializing in the United States presidency.

* Richard Strauss / Franz Schalk ( 1919 – 1924 )

* Richard Young ( June 23, 1919 – 2011 )

* Steigmann-Gall, Richard: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919 – 1945.