1919
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Births
- January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player
- February 11 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
- February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
- May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
- July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor
- October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
- November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet inventor
Deaths
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt
- December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter.
Events
- February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
- May 29 - Einstein's theory of General Relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun
- The islands of Åland vote for a return to Swedish rule in a referendum.
- Les Champs Magnetiques, the first automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault.
- Physics - Johannes Stark
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - Jules Bordet
- Literature - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Sports
- The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds