1919

1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in 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 
 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 
 February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
 February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor and singer (d. 2006)

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

 May 
 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 
 June 6 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)
 June 14 – June Spencer, English actress (d. 2024)

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

 December 

 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