List of Famous people who died in 1919

Princess Ōyama Sutematsu , born Yamakawa Sakiko , was a prominent figure in the Meiji era, and the first Japanese woman to receive a college degree. She was born into a traditional samurai household which supported the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War. As a child, she survived the monthlong siege known as the Battle of Aizu in 1868, and lived briefly as a refugee.

Helen Hyde was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.

Hermann Oppenheim was one of the leading neurologists in Germany.

Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm was a German feminist and author. She was one of the first feminist thinkers to see gender roles as a result of socialization and not biological determinism.

William Michael Rossetti was an English writer and critic.

Séraphin Couvreur was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription. The system devised by Couvreur of the École française d'Extrême-Orient was used in most of the French-speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, after what it was gradually replaced by pinyin.

Abraham Jacobi was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States. To date, he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He helped found the American Journal of Obstetrics. He is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics.

Platon, born Paul Kulbusch was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.

Spyridon Lambros or Lampros was a Greek history professor and briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the National Schism.