[caption id=“attachment_2232” align=“alignright” width=“309”] The Thompson submachine gun in a violin case[/caption]

In the year 1919, the League of Nations is founded (Jan 25), Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement (Mar 23), after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish War of Independence begins (May 19), the Treaty of Versailles officially ends WW 1 (Jun 28), the American Communist Party is established (Aug 31), KLM is founded (Oct 7), Estonia nationalizes 97% of agrarian lands, mostly belonging to Baltic Germans (Oct 10), Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party, the future Nazi Party (Oct 16), John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun (that came to play a major role in the ensuing Prohibition era), the Estonian War of Independence goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1919-0101 Sheila Mercier* actress (Emmerdale) - Kingston upon Hull, England (2019/100) 1919-0101 J. D. Salinger* author - Manhattan, NY USA (2010/91) 1919-0103 Zara Cisco Brough* engineer/technical writer/Chief of the Nipmuc Native American tribe - New York City, NY USA (1988/69) 1919-0113 Robert Stack* actor/television host - Los Angeles, CA USA (2003/84) 1919-0114 Giulio Andreotti* politician/statesman - Rome, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy (2013/94) 1919-0114 Rhena Schweitzer Miller* American humanitarian activist/only child of Albert Schweitzer - Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France (2009/90) 1919-0114 Andy Rooney* radio and television writer (60 Minutes) - Albany, NY USA (2011/92) 1919-0117 Knud Möller* Danish-Finnish radio correspondent/polyglot - Helsinki, Finland (1993/74) 1919-0120 1919-0130 Fred Korematsu* American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II - Oakland, CA USA (2005/86) 1919-0131 Jackie Robinson* baseball player - Cairo, GA USA (1972/53) New Jersey Monthly 1919-0204 Rauha Rentola* actress - Kuhmoinen, Finland (2005/86) 1919-0205 Andreas Papandreou* economist/politician - Chios, Greece (1996/77) 1919-0207 Desmond Doss* WW2 hero combat medic - Lynchburg, VA USA (2006/87) 1919-0207 Jock Mahoney* actor/stuntman - Chicago, IL USA (1989/70) 1919-0210 1919-0211 Eva Gabor* actress /singer - Budapest, Hungarian Republic (1995/76) 1919-0212 Forrest Tucker* actor - Plainfield, IN USA (1986/67) 1919-0215 1919-0218 Jack Palance* actor - Lattimer Mines, PA USA (2006/87) 1919-0220 1919-0228 Brian Urquhart* international civil servant/author/ played a significant role in the founding of the United Nations - Bridport, Dorset, England (2021/101) 1919-0302 Jennifer Jones* actress - Tulsa, OK USA (2009/90) 1919-0303 Rolf Winqvist* WW2 pilot/MRR - Tuusula, Finland (1944/25) 1919-0317 Nat King Cole* jazz pianist/vocalist - Montgomery, AL USA (1965/45) 1919-0322 Bernard Krigstein* illustrator/artist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1990/70) 1919-0324 Lars von Haartman* ornithologist/ artist/writer - Askainen, Finland (1998/79) 1919-0401 Joseph Murray* surgeon/N - Milford, MA USA (2012/93) 1919-0408 Ian Smith* farmer/politician/PM - Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia (2007/88) 1919-0413 Howard Keel* actor/singer - Gillespie, IL USA (2004/85) 1919-0413 Madalyn Murray O’Hair* atheist activist - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1995/76) 1919-0413 Boris Townsend* physicist/television engineer - London, England (2006/86) 1919-0415 Emyr Humphreys* novelist/poet - Prestatyn, Wales (2020/101) 1919-0423 Anne Buydens* (b Hannelore Marx) film producer/ philanthropist/ married to Kirk Douglas - Hanover, Weimar Republic (2021/102) 1919-0501 Dan O’Herlihy* actor - Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland (2005/85) 1919-0503 Traute Lafrenz* resistance fighter/to U.S. at age 28 - Hamburg, Weimar Republic (2023/103) 1919-0503 Pete Seeger* folk singer/social activist - Manhattan, NY USA (2014/94) 1919-0505 Georgios Papadopoulos* colonel/Greek junta strongman - Elaiohori, Greece (1999/80) 1919-0506 Alejandro Finisterre* (b Alexandre Ramírez) inventor/poet/publisher - Fisterra, Galicia, Spain (2007/87) 1919-0507 Eva Perón* First Lady/political activist - Los Toldos, Argentina (1952/33) 1919-0508 Lex Barker* actor - Rye, NY USA (1973/54) 1919-0509 Betty Jameson* golfer/a founder of the LPGA - Norman, OK USA (2009/89) 1919-0510 1919-0516 Liberace* pianist/singer/actor - West Allis, WI USA (1987/67) 1919-0521 Atmasthananda* Hindu leader - Dinajpur Bangladesh, British India (2017/98) 1919-0528 Frank Middlemass* actor - Eaglescliffe, County Durham, England (2006/87) 1919-0531 1919-0603 Hans Reiser* actor - Munich, Weimar Republic (1982/73) 1919-0610 1919-0614 Gene Barry* (b Eugene Klass) actor/ singer - New York City, NY USA (2009/90) 1919-0619 Pauline Kael* film critic - Petaluma, CA USA (2001/82) 1919-0624 Al Molinaro* actor/comedian - Kenosha, WI USA (2015/96) 1919-0629 Slim Pickens* (b Louis Lindley Jr.) rodeo performer/actor - Kingsburg, CA USA (1983/64) 1919-0701 1919-0706 Oswaldo Guayasamín* painter/ sculptor - Quito, Ecuador (1999/79) 1919-0707 Brenda Bruce* actress - Prestwich, Lancashire, England (1996/76) 1919-0710 1919-0715 Iris Murdoch* novelist/philosopher - Dublin, Ireland (1999/79) 1919-0715 Rauli Tuomi* actor/ niece of Emmi Jurkka - Helsinki,  Finland (1949/29) 1919-0716 Hermine Braunsteiner* Nazi concentration camp guard - Vienna, Republic of German-Austria (1999/79) 1919-0720 Edmund Hillary* mountaineer/conquerer of Mount Everest/ philanthropist - Auckland, New Zealand (2008/88) 1919-0726 James Lovelock* independent scientist/ environmentalist/ futurist - Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England (2022/103) 1919-0731 Primo Levi* chemist/Holocaust survivor/writer - Torino, Italy (1987/67) 1919-0808 Dino De Laurentiis* film producer - Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy (2010/91) 1919-0812 Margaret Burbidge* British-American observational astronomer/astrophysicist - Davenport, England (2020/100) 1919-0820 Walter Bernstein* screenwriter/film producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2021/101) 1919-0829 Sono Osato* dancer/actress - Omaha, NE USA (2018/99) 1919-0830 Joachim Rønneberg* army officer renown for his resistance work/ broadcaster - Ålesund, Norway (2018/99) 1919-0830 Wolfgang Wagner* opera director/grandson of Richard Wagner /great-grandson of Franz Liszt - Wahnfried, Germany (2010/90) 1919-0901 Margaret Storkan* dermatologist - USA (2000/81) 1919-0902 Marge Champion* dancer/actress - Los Angeles. CA USA (2020/101) 1919-0910 1919-0913 Vanilla Beane* milliner (“DC’s Hat Lady”)/businesswoman - Wilson, NC USA (2022/103) 1919-0922 Ruth Kaarlela* social worker/university professor/of Finnish descent - Keweenaw Bay, MI USA (2018/98) 1919-0923 Madhav Prasad Ghimire* poet/scholar - Pustun, Nepal (2020/100) 1919-0927 Jayne Meadows* American actress/ author/lecturer - Wuchan District, Wuhan, China (2015/95) 1919-0930 1919-1001 1919-1003 Hella Brock* (b Siegmund-Schultze) music educator/musicologist - Wittenberg, Germany (2020/101) 1919-1005 Donald Pleasance* actor - Worksop, Nottinghamshire England (1995/75) 1919-1018 Pierre Trudeau* politician/statesman - Montreal, QC Canada (2000/80) 1919-1019 1919-1020 Tracy Hall* physical chemist/an early pioneer in the research of synthetic diamonds - Ogden, UT USA (2008/88) 1919-1022 Doris Lessing* novelist/poet/librettist//N - Kermanshah, Iran (2013/94) 1919-1025 George Cawkwell* scholar/historian - Auckland, New Zealand (2019/99) 1919-1101 1919-1102 Joe Hin Tjio* cytogeneticist - Pekalongan, Java, Dutch East Indies (2001/82) 1919-1104 Martin Balsam* actor - The Bronx, NY  USA (1996/76) 1919-1108 Madison Abel “Matt” Sullivan* Seaman Second Class/one of the Sullivan quintet whose deaths led way to the Sole Survivor Policy – Waterloo, IA USA (1942/23) 1919-1110 Mikhail Kalashnikov* army general/ military engineer/firearms inventor - Kurya, Russia, Soviet Union (2013/94) 1919-1111 Kalle Päätalo* novelist - Taivalkoski, Finland (2000/81) 1919-1115 Leo Marx* historian/literary critic/educator - New York City, NY USA (2022/102) 1919-1119 Joseph Wapner* judge/television personality - Los Angeles, CA USA (2017/97) 1919-1120 Phyllis Thaxter* actress - Portland, ME USA (2012/92) 1919-1126 Sixten Franzén* physician/ cytologist - Västra Ryd, Sweden (2008/87) 1919-1128 Keith Miller* cricketer/Australian rules footballer - Sunshine, VIC Australia (2004/84) 1919-1130 1919-1202 Norma Miller* dancer/choreographer/ actress - Manhattan, NY USA (2019/99) 1919-1203 Helen Walton* (b Robson) married to Walmart founder Sam Walton - Claremore, OK USA (2007/87) 1919-1205 1919-1207 Wilfred Arthur* fighter pilot - Sydney, NSW Australia (2000/81) 1919-1207 Charles McGee* fighter pilot/one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen - Cleveland, OH USA (2022/102) 1919-1211 Paavo Aaltonen* gymnast/OG - Kemi, Finland (1962/42) 1919-1213 Hans-Joachim Marseille* WW2 fighter pilot - Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (1942/22) 1919-1231 Recy Taylor* activist - Abbeville, AL USA (2017/97) 1919-0 1919-0 1919-0 Updated 2025-0509 Helsinki Search for another year here