1919
1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1919th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 919th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1919, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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
- 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
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- February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
- February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
March
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- 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
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June
- June 6 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)
- June 14 – June Spencer, English actress
July
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- 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
- 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
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- 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)
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
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