List of Famous people who died in 1919

John Lionel Darby was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th

Claës Richard Wersäll was a Swedish governor and artillery officer. Between 15 March 1895 and 16 July 1897 he served as a Swedish Finance Minister. He was also the governor of Dalarna County (1893–1901) and Västmanland County (1901–1916). During his career he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star (1895), Order of the Sword (1889), Order of St. Anna and Order of St. Olav.

Viktor Karlovich Knorre Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре(4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev, Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158 Koronis and three other minor planets. Knorre's father, Karl Friedrich Knorre, and grandfather, Ernst Friedrich Knorre, were also prominent astronomers. Recently, the main-belt asteroid 14339 Knorre was named in honor of the three generations of Knorre astronomers.

Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston was a British Conservative Party politician.

Hermann Weingärtner was a German gymnast.

Henry Alvah Strong was an American photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.

Fukushima Yasumasa was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia was a Grand Duke of Russia, first cousin of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and a General in the Russian army. Born in Tbilisi while his father was the Governor-General of Russian provinces of Transcaucasia, he was the second surviving son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecily of Baden. His paternal grandparents were Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. His maternal grandparents were Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden and Princess Sophie of Sweden.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

Hempstead Washburne was a Republican attorney and politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1891 to 1893. He was the son of Elihu B. Washburne.