List of Famous people who born in 1919
Sid Ramin
Sidney Nathan Ramin was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer.
Dina Vierny
Dina Vierny was an artists' model who became a singer, French art dealer, collector and museum director.
Alberto Breccia
Alberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine cartoonist. His son is the noted cartoonist Enrique Breccia.
Nelson Gonçalves
Nelson Gonçalves was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
Kira Golovko
Kira Golovko, née Ivanova was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
Yuri Zhdanov
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov was a Russian chemistry professor and rector of the University of Rostov. He was the son of Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov and a former husband of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
Nova Pilbeam
Nova Margery Pilbeam was an English film and stage actress. She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock movies of the 1930s, and made her last film in 1948.
Pierre Roche
Pierre Roche was a pianist, singer and composer, better known for his duo with Charles Aznavour (1943-1950). Roche and Aznavour met at a music hall and debuted on stage with their own songs in 1944. Edith Piaf noticed them and hired them for a tour in France with the Compagnons de la chanson. Charles Aznavour then decided to pursue a solo career in order to expand his repertoire, while his pianist settled in Quebec. In the 1970's, Aznavour invited Pierre Roche to join him on Olympia's stage to perform together.
Benny Moré
Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré, better known as Benny Moré, was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as El Bárbaro del Ritmo and El Sonero Mayor. Moré was a master of the soneo – the art of vocal improvisation in son cubano – and many of his tunes developed this way. He often took part in controversias with other singers like Cheo Marquetti and Joseíto Fernández. Apart from son cubano, Moré was a popular singer of guarachas, cha cha cha, mambo, son montuno, and boleros.
Raymond Westerling
Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling was a Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He orchestrated a contraguerrilla in Sulawesi during the Indonesian National Revolution after World War II and participated in a coup attempt against the Indonesian government in January 1950, a month after the official transfer of sovereignty. Both actions were denounced as war crimes by the Indonesian authorities.