1919 births

New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)

American author (1919–2010)

Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 (1919–2000)

American folk singer (1919–2014)

Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)

American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)

British actor (1919–1995)

Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

President of West Germany (1974-1979)

American actress (1919–2009)

British ballerina

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)

former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist

Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)

American actor (1919–2006)

English scientist (1919–2022)

English electrical engineer (1919–2004)

Punjabi poet (1919–2005)

US surgeon (1919–2012)

Italian cyclist

American baseball player (1919–1972)

Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1919–2007)

Spanish poet (1919–2012)

78th Prime Minister of Japan (1919–2007)

Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)

Prime Minister of India (1997-1998)

American chemist (1919–2001)

Greek military dictator from 1967 to 1973

South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)

Italian film producer (1919–2010)

4th President of South Korea (1919–2006)

American actor (1919–1996)

Italian-French actor

Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)

American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)

45th Governor of Alabama (1919–1998)

British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)

American comedian and actor (1919–2006)

American psychologist

British analytic philosopher

English footballer and manager (1919–1996)

American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)

Mexican singer (1919–2012)

Polish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile (1919–2010)

Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)

American sociologist (1919–2011)

American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)

President of Cuba (1919–1983)

American actress (1919–2001)

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule.

4th President of the Republic of Cyprus (1993-2003)

Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1919–1987)

Algerian politician (1919–1992)

French painter and engraver (1919–2022)

Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)