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Born on Saturday March 1, 1919
- Ralph Edward Callahan, Tifton, Tift, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
Died on Saturday March 1, 1919
- Matthijs Wanders (55), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 1, 1919 at Delpher
Born on February 29
- 1916 » Dinah Shore, American singer and actress († 1994)
- 1916 » James B. Donovan, American lawyer († 1970)
- 1916 » Leonard Shoen, founder of U-Haul Corp. († 1999)
- 1920 » Arthur Franz, American actor († 2006)
- 1920 » Fyodor Abramov, Russian author and critic († 1983)
- 1920 » Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic († 1991)
- 1920 » James Mitchell, American actor and dancer († 2010)
- 1920 » Michèle Morgan, French-American actress and singer († 2016)
- 1920 » Rolland W. Redlin, American lawyer and politician († 2011)
- 1924 » David Beattie, New Zealand judge and politician, 14th Governor-General of New Zealand († 2001)
Died on February 29
- 1880 » James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania (b. February 29, 1812)
- 1908 » Pat Garrett, American sheriff (b. 1850)
- 1920 » Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
- 1928 » Adolphe Appia, Swiss architect and theorist (b. 1862)
- 1940 » E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (b. 1867)
- 1944 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd President of Finland (b. 1861)
- 1948 » Robert Barrington-Ward, English lawyer and journalist (b. 1891)
- 1952 » Quo Tai-chi, Chinese politician and diplomat, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations (b. 1888)
- 1956 » Elpidio Quirino, Filipino lawyer and politician, 6th President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
- 1960 » Melvin Purvis, American police officer and FBI agent (b. 1903)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1919
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
- January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
- January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
- May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
- May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.