List of Famous people who died in 1919

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar.

Gojong, the Emperor Gwangmu, was the last king of Joseon and the first Emperor of Korea.

Sir William MacGregor, was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.

Fidel Cano Gutiérrez was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.

Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was a Russian actress of Ukrainian origin. She was the first star of Russian silent cinema. Only five of her films still exist and the total number she acted in is unknown, with speculation ranging between fifty and one hundred.

Theodor Joseph Hagen was a German painter and art teacher.

Paul Jakob Deussen was a German Indologist and professor of philosophy at University of Kiel. Strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer, Deussen was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). Professor Deussen was the first editor, in 1912, of the scholarly journal Schopenhauer Yearbook (Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch).