1919 deaths

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)

French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

German zoologist (1834-1919)

Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)

English physicist (1842–1919)

Danish writer (1857–1919)

German chemist (1852–1919)

German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)

American author of children's books (1856–1919)

Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)

Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

Italian composer

Swedish painter (1853-1919)

Australian politician (1856–1919)

Hungarian poet (1877–1919)

Austrian writer and poet (1859–1919)

Swedish physicist

German chancellor (1843–1919)

Soviet politician

Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)

26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)

Japanese general (1852-1919)

Prime Minister of Albania (1844-1919)

7th prime minister of Canada (1841-1919)

Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)

American astronomer (1846–1919)

Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer (1880-1919)

American entrepreneur (1867-1919)

Brazilian politician (1848-1919)

French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence

Emir of Afghanistan (1901-1919)

German communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919)

German politician and journalist (1867-1919)

Ukrainian-born actress of Imperial Russian silent cinema (1893–1919)

Russian revolutionary, editor (1849-1919)

Russian writer (1844–1919)

Red Army commander (1887–1919)

Russian-Italian botanist (1872-1919)

Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1860–1919)

American engineer (1861-1919)

South African general and politician (1862-1919)

German anarchist, editor (1870-1919)

Austrian fencer and cyclist (1872–1919)

German linguist (1849–1919)

German musicologist (1849-1919)

German gymnast (1864–1919)

American feminist and doctor (1832–1919)

Spanish opera singer (1843–1919)

German politician, editor (1860-1919)

Russian Imperial (1859-1919)

Russian philosopher (1856-1919)

American businessman (1844-1919)

Austrian writer (1848-1919)

Son of King George V

Russian noble (1860-1919)

Slovak painter (1853-1919)

German sculptor (1881–1919)