* 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 )

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.

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

* 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.

The three races offered the largest purse and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races.

Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians ; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons.

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

** Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet, Australian businessman ( d. 1919 )

** Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist ( d. 1919 )

* June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist ( d. 1919 )

* December 8 – Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia ( b. 1919 )

They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet ( 1856 – 1919 ), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

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

Prince Albert ( left ) at an RAF dinner in 1919 with Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Sir Hugh Trenchard ( centre ) and Christopher Courtney ( right )

* Sir Auckland Geddes – President of the Local Government Board ( to 1919 )

Sir Barton, winner in 1919

The first winner of the Triple Crown was Sir Barton, in 1919.

* Sir Alfred Sherman ( 1919 – 2006 ), British journalist

* Sir Abe Bailey, 1st Baronet, of South Africa ( 1919 ), extant

* Sir John Watson ( VC ) ( 1829 – 1919 ), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857

* 1909 – 1940: Sir Vernon Kell ( from 1919, Sir Vernon Kell ) ( b. 1873 – d.

* 1979 – 1981: Sir Howard Smith ( b. 1919 – d.