List of Famous people who died in 1919

Robert Bacon was an American statesman and diplomat. A leading banker and businessman, who worked closely with Secretary of State Elihu Root, 1905-1909, and served as United States Secretary of State from January to March 1909. He served as ambassador to France 1909 to 1912. He was a leader in the Preparedness Movement setting up training programs for would-be Soldiers before the United States entered the First World War in April 1917. He was defeated narrowly as a candidate for the United States Senate in 1916. He was commissioned as a major in the United States Army in 1917, and played a major role as Chief of the American Military Mission at British General Headquarters.

Louis Tuaillon was a Prussian sculptor. From 1879 to 1881, he attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, then worked in the studio of Reinhold Begas. In Vienna, he spent two years in the studio of Rudolf Weyr. He then spent the years 1885 to 1903 in Rome. From 1906, Tuaillon was once again in Berlin, as Professor in the academy.

Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov was a Russian Imperial painter and art teacher; known for historical and genre scenes as well as portraits.

Count Itagaki Taisuke was a Japanese soldier, politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement , which evolved into Japan's first political party. His image is on Japan's 1953 100-yen banknote.

Herbert Huntingdon Smith or Herbert Huntington Smith was an American naturalist and amateur conchologist who worked on the flora and fauna of Brazil. He wrote Brazil, the Amazons and the coast and Do Rio de Janeiro á Cuyabá: Notas de um naturalista (1922).

Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).

Charles Henry Hitchcock was an American geologist.

Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.

Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. She was the mother of William Randolph Hearst and wife of George Hearst.