1919

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1916 1917 1918 – 1919 – 1920 1921 1922

1919 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1919 MCMXIX
Ab urbe condita	2672
Armenian calendar	1368 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6669
Bahá'í calendar	75–76
Balinese saka calendar	1840–1841
Bengali calendar	1326
Berber calendar	2869
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 5 – 10 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2463
Burmese calendar	1281
Byzantine calendar	7427–7428
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4615 or 4555     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4616 or 4556
Coptic calendar	1635–1636
Discordian calendar	3085
Ethiopian calendar	1911–1912
Hebrew calendar	5679–5680
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1975–1976
- Shaka Samvat	1840–1841
- Kali Yuga	5019–5020
Holocene calendar	11919
Igbo calendar	919–920
Iranian calendar	1297–1298
Islamic calendar	1337–1338
Japanese calendar	Taishō 8 (大正８年)
Javanese calendar	1849–1850
Juche calendar	8
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4252
Minguo calendar	ROC 8 民國8年
Nanakshahi calendar	451
Thai solar calendar	2461–2462
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 2045 or 1664 or 892     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 2046 or 1665 or 893

1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 15 – Great Molasses Flood in Boston kills 21 people.
• January 16 – Prohibition begins in the United States.
• June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
• Charles Strite invents the toaster.
• Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

January

Robert Stack

Giulio Andreotti

Jackie Robinson

• January 1 – Carole Landis, American actress and singer (d. 1948)
• January 13 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
• January 14 – Giulio Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
• January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (d. 1972)
• January 31 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)

February

Andreas Papandreou

Jack Palance

• February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
• February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)

March

Jennifer Jones

Nat King Cole

• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
• March 17 – Nat King Cole, American singer and jazz pianist (d. 1965)
• March 25 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (d. 1984)

April

Ian Smith

• April 8 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
• April 13 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)

May

Pete Seeger

Eva Perón

Liberace

• May 3 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (d. 2014)
• May 7 – Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
• May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
• May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)

June

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

• June 6 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)
• June 14 – June Spencer, English actress

July

Walter Scheel

Edmund Hillary

James Lovelock

• July 8 – Walter Scheel, 4th President of Germany (d. 2016)
• July 20 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
• July 26 – James Lovelock, English environmentalist (d. 2022)

August

Joop den Uyl

• August 9 – Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
• August 13 – Norman Spencer, English film producer

September

• September 19 – Prakash Kaur, Indian folk singer
• September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)

October

Siad Barre

Kiichi Miyazawa

Pierre Trudeau

• October 3 - James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize winning Economist (d. 2013)
• October 6 – Siad Barre, 3rd President of Somalia (d. 1995)
• October 8 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• October 26 - Edward Brooke, American politician (d. 2015)

November

Martin Balsam

• November 4 – Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)

Deaths

• Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau – French painter
• January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• April 10 – Emiliano Zapata
• May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American writer
• August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish businessman
• October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
• October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize winner