List of Famous people who died in 1919

Hugo Gerard Ströhl was an Austrian heraldist.

Friedrich (Fritz) Schöll was a German classical philologist, known for his editions of Plautus, Varro and Cicero. He was the son of archaeologist Gustav Adolf Schöll (1805–1882) and the brother of philologist Rudolf Schöll (1844–1893).

Simon Schwendener was a Swiss botanist who was a native of Buchs in the Canton of St. Gallen.

Cesare Tallone (1853–1919) was an Italian painter.

Tatsuno Kingo was a Japanese architect born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu. Doctor of Engineering. Conferred Jusanmi and Kunsanto. Former dean of Architecture Department at Tokyo Imperial University.

Étienne Marie Victor Lamy was a French author. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, and his earlier writings were political and historical. In the House of Deputies he was a member of the Left, but he broke with his party and became a clerical reactionary, writing for the Gaulois and the Correspondant. In 1905 he became a member of the Académie française, and in 1913 he succeeded Thureau-Dangin as its perpetual secretary. Among Lamy's works are:

• Le tiers parti (1868)
• L'Armée et la democratie (1889)
• La France du Levant (1898)
• Etudes sur le second empire (1895)
• La femme de demain (1899)
• an edition of the memoirs of Aimée de Coigny (1900)
• Témoins de jours passés
• Au service des idées et des lettres (1909)
• Quelques œuvres et quelques œuvriers

Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada, in office from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911.

Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He was the first inorganic chemist to win the Nobel prize, and the only one prior to 1973.

Leon "Leo" Jogiches, also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania and Germany.