1919: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Goat 🐐 · Born in 1919 turn 107 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Woodrow Wilson

In the news: Treaty of Versailles signed; Prohibition ratified

What happened in 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.

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Born in 1919

85 people in our data · most viewed first

Pete Seeger

1919–2014 · May 3

American musician and social activist

J. D. Salinger

1919–2010 · January 1

American author

Inder Kumar Gujral

1919–2012 · December 4

Prime Minister of India from 1997 to 1998

Howard Morris

1919–2005 · September 4

American actor and director

Howard Keel

1919–2004 · April 13

American actor and singer

Amrita Pritam

1919–2005 · August 31

Indian writer

Dan O'Herlihy

1919–2005 · May 1

Irish actor

Forrest Tucker

1919–1986 · February 12

American actor

Ernie Kovacs

1919–1962 · January 23

American comedian

Ashraf Pahlavi

1919–2016 · October 26

Iranian princess

Carole Landis

1919–1948 · January 1

American actress

Bob Paisley

1919–1996 · January 23

English footballer and manager

Alan Young

1919–2016 · November 19

British actor

Frances Bay

1919–2011 · January 23

American actress

Georgios Papadopoulos

1919–1999 · May 5

Greek military dictator

Art Blakey

1919–1990 · October 11

American jazz drummer and bandleader

Eileen Heckart

1919–2001 · March 29

American actress

Andy Rooney

1919–2011 · January 14

American radio and television journalist, commentator, and author

Al Molinaro

1919–2015 · June 24

American actor

Betty Garrett

1919–2011 · May 23

American actress, comedian, singer and dancer

Beryl Reid

1919–1996 · June 17

British actress

Andreas Papandreou

1919–1996 · February 5

Prime Minister of Greece (1981–1989; 1993–1996)

Chavela Vargas

1919–2012 · April 17

Costa Rican singer

Manna Dey

1919–2013 · May 1

Indian singer

Died in 1919

Andrew Carnegie1835–1919 · American industrialist and philanthropist
Ernst Haeckel1834–1919 · German zoologist
Frank Winfield Woolworth1852–1919 · American businessman
Alfred Deakin1856–1919 · Prime Minister of Australia (1903–1904; 1905–1908; 1909–1910)
Adelina Patti1843–1919 · Italian opera singer
Carl Larsson1853–1919 · Swedish painter
Edward Poynter1836–1919 · British artist
Anna Howard Shaw1847–1919 · 19th- and 20th-century American women's suffrage leader
Akashi Motojiro1864–1919 · General in the Imperial Japanese Army
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria1849–1919 · Queen of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha1839–1919 · Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Hugo Haase1863–1919 · German politician, jurist and pacifist