List of Famous people who died in 1919

Julian Aleksandrovich Scriabin was the youngest son of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Tatiana de Schloezer. He was himself a promising composer and pianist, but he died at the age of eleven under mysterious circumstances. In the last year of his life he wrote four preludes in his father's style, the authorship of which is questioned by some researchers. Those preludes were published for the first time 95 years after his death by Edition Octoechos. Musicologists have described Julian Scriabin both as a successor of his father and as an early representative of the early Russian and Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s.

Eugen Adolf Hermann Petersen was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.

James Bradley Orman was an American politician and railroad builder. He served as the 12th Governor of Colorado from 1901 to 1903. He was a Democrat.

Anton Door was an Austrian pianist and music educator, also known in Russia as Anton Andreyevich Door.

Karl Brugmann was a German linguist. He is noted for his work in Indo-European linguistics.