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1919 (MCMXIX) is the 919th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1910s decade.
Art and culture
- In June 1919, Max Jacob sent Raymond Radiguet, a young writer, to meet Jean Cocteau
- Atlantida, a French novel by Pierre Benoit
- Institut für Sexualwissenschaft founded
- Winesburg, Ohio, short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson
- The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
- A Child Is Being Beaten by Sigmund Freud
- Weimar culture (1919 - 1933)
- Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by El Lissitzky
- Alma Mahler by Hermine Moos
- Bauhaus founded
- Start of alcohol prohibition in Finland
- The End Of The World Filmed By An Angel, a French-language novel by Blaise Cendrars
- "What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?"
- L.H.O.O.Q. by Duchamp
Births
- January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye) (d. 2010)
- January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
- February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
- March 17 – Nat King Cole, African-American singer (Unforgettable) (d. 1965)
- March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
- April 19 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
- April 12 – Maurice Girodias , British publisher (d. 1990)
- June 19 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
- July 15 – Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist (d. 1999)
- July 26 – James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist
- September 4 – Gualtiero Jacopetti, Italian director (d. 2011)
- October 5 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
- October 11 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
- October 22 – Doris Lessing, British writer (d. 2013)
- December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
Deaths
- Ernst Haeckel (1834 — 1919)
- Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837 - 1919)
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