List of Famous people who died in 1919

Camille Erlanger was a Parisian-born French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and Antoine Taubon (harmony). In 1888 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Velléda. His most famous opera, Le Juif polonais, was produced at the Opéra-Comique in 1900.

Ernest Lister was the eighth Governor of the state of Washington.

Daniel Russell Brown was an American politician and the 43rd Governor of Rhode Island.

Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm was a German mathematician. His Ph.D. advisor was Heinrich Eduard Schroeter, and Otto Toeplitz was one of his Ph.D. students. His best ever proposal type claim is commonly known as "Sturm's Theorem" based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series.

Ferdinand Thieriot was a German composer of Romantic music and a cellist.

Plato Freiherr von Ustinov was a Russian-born German citizen and the owner of the Hôtel du Parc in Jaffa, Ottoman Empire.

Hilary Abner Herbert was Secretary of the Navy in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.