List of Famous people who born in 1919

Lisa Della Casa was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.

Jenaro Gajardo Vera was a Chilean lawyer, painter and poet. He became famous for his 1953 claim of ownership of the Moon.

Yehoshua Blau was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Wolf C. Hartwig sometimes credited as Wolfgang C. Hartwig and Wolfgang Hartwig, was a German film producer working in exploitation genres.

Mohammed Karim Lamrani was a Moroccan politician who was the Prime Minister of Morocco for three separate terms.

Gerhard Mertins was a German paratrooper, arms trafficker, Nazi and associate of pedophile cult leader Paul Schäfer. In 1943, he participated in the Gran Sasso raid rescuing Benito Mussolini from prison.

César Manrique was a Spanish artist, sculptor, architect and activist from Lanzarote.

Tōta Kaneko , was a Japanese writer.

Takashi Yanase was a Japanese writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist. He was best known as the creator of the picture book and anime series Anpanman. Yanase was chairman of the Japan Cartoonists Association from May 2000 to 2012.

Vera Danilovna Voloshina was a Russian partisan who after joining the Red Army took part in subversive activities against the Nazis in World War II. After being ambushed by the Germans in November 1941, she was brutally hanged near the village of Golovkovo in the Naro-Fominsky District to the southwest of Moscow. According to legend, she was also the model behind Ivan Shadr's Girl with an Oar sculpture in Moscow's Gorky Park. In 1994, Voloshina was honoured posthumously as a Heroine of the Russian Federation.