List of Famous people who born in 1919
Max Berliner
Max Berliner was a Polish-born actor, author, film director and theater director who developed his whole career in Argentina.
George Avakian
George Mesrop Avakian was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive. Best known for his work from 1939 to the early 1960s at Decca Records, Columbia Records, World Pacific Records, Warner Bros. Records, and RCA Records, he was a major force in the expansion and development of the U.S. recording industry. Avakian functioned as an independent producer and manager from the 1960s to the early 2000s and worked with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Condon, Keith Jarrett, Erroll Garner, Buck Clayton, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond, Edith Piaf, Bob Newhart, Johnny Mathis, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Ravi Shankar, and many other notable jazz musicians and composers.
Luis Fernan Bedoya Reyes
Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes is a Peruvian Christian Democrat (PDC) and Christian People's Party (PPC) politician in the late 1960s. He was the mayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969. He is also a former Minister of Justice, member of the Peruvian Congress and ran for Peruvian president two times. He was the founder of the Christian People's Party (PPC). As of 2020, Bedoya is the oldest Latin American politician, being 101 years old.
Erika Pohl-Ströher
Erika Pohl-Ströher was a German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals and German folk art. She was resident in Switzerland for much of her life.
José Ángel Espinoza
José Ángel Espinoza Aragón, also known as Ferrusquilla, was a Mexican singer-songwriter and film actor. He was the father of actress Angélica Aragón. There is a statue of him along Olas Altas Promenade in Mazatlán, Mexico. He also was a composer affiliated to the SACM.
Rolf Noskwith
Rolf Noskwith was a British businessman who during the Second World War worked under Alan Turing as a cryptographer at the Bletchley Park British military base.
Dominique Davray
Dominique Davray was a French actress. She performed in more than ninety films from 1942 to 1983.
François Chalais
François Chalais was a prominent French reporter, journalist, writer and film historian. The François Chalais Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival is named after him.
Jacques Marin
Jacques Marin was a French actor on film and television. Marin's fluency in English and his instantly recognisable features made him a familiar face in some major American and British productions and Disney movies.
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.