Deaths
- February 19 - Frederick DuCane Godman (born 1834), lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.
- April 4 - Sir William Crookes (born 1832), chemist and physicist.
- April 17 - Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (born 1827), obstetrician.
- June 30 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (born 1842), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
- July 15 - Emil Fischer (born 1852), Nobel Prize-winning chemist (suicide).
- July 21 - Gustaf Retzius (born 1842), anatomist.
- August 8 - Ernst Haeckel (born 1834), zoologist.
- November 23 - Henry Gantt (born 1861), project engineer.
- December 29 - Sir William Osler (born 1849), physician.
Read more about this topic: 1919 In Science
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