1919
Events
January
February-April
May-June
- May 1 – Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent
confrontation with the police
- May 1 - In Cleveland, police and army
confront the May Day parade and drive into crowd – 2 dead, one hundred
injured
- May 3 – People's
Republic of Munich is crushed
- May 4 - May Fourth
Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China
- May 15 - Winnipeg launches general strike for better wages and working conditions.
- May 16 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read
departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
- May 17 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike
- May 25 – Volcano Kloet erupts in Java – 16.000 dead
- May 29 - Einstein's
theory of general relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun.
- June 4 - Women's
rights: The United States Congress approves the
19th
Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to
women, and sends it to the U.S. states
for ratification.
- June 14 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown
depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first
nonstop transatlantic flight (they landed at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day). [1] (http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm)
- June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I
with Germany.
July-November
December
unknown dates
Births
January-April
- January 1 - J. D.
Salinger, novelist
- January 13 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
- January 13 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
- January 14 - Andy
Rooney, television journalist
- January 23 - Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
- January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
- January 25 - Edwin
Newman, journalist, writer
- January 27 - Ross
Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)
- January 31 - Jackie
Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
- February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
- February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
- February 11 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
- February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
- February 12 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
- February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
- March 2 - Jennifer
Jones, actress
- March 11 - Mercer Ellington, musician, composer (d. 1996)
- March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, actor (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Nat King
Cole, singer (d. 1965)
- March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
- March 30 - McGeorge
Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- April 8 - Ian Douglas Smith,
leader of white-ruled Rhodesia 1965-1979
May-December
- May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and
musician
- May 7 - Eva Peron, wife of
Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
- May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d.
1973)
- May 16 - Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
- May 16 - Gisela Uhlen,
actress
- May 18 - Dame Margot
Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
- May 20 - George Gobel,
comedian (d. 1991)
- May 23 - Betty Garrett,
actress, dancer
- June 4 - Robert Merrill,
baritone (d. 2004)
- June 5 - Richard Scarry,
children's author (d. 1994)
- June 21 - Gérard
Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
- June 26 - Richard
Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
- July 6 - Ernst
Haefliger, Swiss tenor
- July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor (d.
1996)
- July 15 - Iris Murdoch,
novelist (d. 1999)
- July 20 - Edmund
Hillary, mountaineer
- September 11 - Ota Sik,
Czech economist and politician (d. 2004)
- September 21 - Fazlur Rahman, scholar (d. 1988)
- September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)
- October 1 - member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
- October 11 - Art Blakey,
jazz drummer (d. 1990)
- October 18 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian prime minister (d. 2000)
- October 22 - Doris
Lessing, British writer
- October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d.
1980)
- November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - inventor, designer of the Ak-47
- November 14 - Lisa Otto,
German soprano
- November 18 - Andrée Borrel, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
- November - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)
Deaths
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
- January 15 - Rosa
Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
- January 18- His Royal Highness Prince John, son of George V and Queen Mary (b. 1905)
- February 17 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime
Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
- April 4 - Sir William
Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- April 15 - Jane Delano,
founder, American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862)
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum,
American writer (b. 1856)
- August 9 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
- October 7 - Alfred
Deakin, second Prime Minister of
Australia (b. 1856)
- October 18 - Viscount William Astor, American financier and statesman (b. 1848)
- December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841)
Nobel Prizes
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