List of Famous people who born in 1919
Ludovic Kennedy
Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy was a Scottish journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa was a Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist. He wrote only in the Catalan language.
Vera Altayskaya
Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.
Roger Pigaut
Roger Pigaut was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 40 films between 1943 and 1980.
Ion Calvocoressi
Major Ion Melville Calvocoressi was an officer in the British Army during the Second World War and later a stockbroker in the City of London. He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1978–79.
Devon George Minchin
Devon Minchin was an Australian fighter pilot, entrepreneur, security industry pioneer and author.
Paolo Soleri
Paolo Soleri was an Italian architect. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' – a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93.
René Barrientos
René Barrientos Ortuño was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the 47th President of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1964 to 1966 and from 1966 to 1969. During much of his first term, he shared power as co-president with Alfredo Ovando from 1965 to 1966 and prior to that served as the 30th Vice President of Bolivia in 1964.
Aldo Mongiano
Aldo Mongiano, IMC was an Italian-born Brazil-based bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Mongiano was born in Pontestura, Italy, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1943, from the religious order of the Consolata Missionaries. Mongiano was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Roraima as well as Titular bishop of Nasai on 14 May 1975, and consecrated on 5 October 1975. He resigned as Titular bishop of Nasai and was appointed bishop of Roraima on 4 December 1979. Mongiano retired from the Roraima Diocese on 26 June 1996. Mongiano died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken femur.
Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet
Sir Rupert William John Clarke, 3rd Baronet, AM, MBE was an Australian soldier, businessman and pastoralist. He achieved success in a number of fields, including horseracing, the military and as a corporate chairman.