1919
year
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.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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
change- 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
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- 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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- April 8 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
- April 13 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
May
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- 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
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- 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
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- August 9 – Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
- August 13 – Norman Spencer, English film producer
September
change- 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)
November
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- November 4 – Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
December
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change- 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