1919

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

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.
• October 11 - [Art Blakey]?, jazz drummer
• Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet inventor

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - [Friedrich Ebert]? (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Johannes Stark]?
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Medicine - [Jules Bordet]?
• Literature - [Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler]?
• Peace - [Thomas Woodrow Wilson]?