Timeline July 1919

Events in July 1919 4

• 1919 Wimbledon 1919 — return from war Men: Gerald Patterson · Women: Suzanne Lenglen First Wimbledon after World War I. French legend Suzanne Lenglen made her debut, winning the first of six titles in a dominant run.
• 1919 – 1996 Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) Died 20 May 1996, aged 76 Jon Pertwee was an English actor best known for playing the third incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who" from 1970 to 1974. He also had a long career in British radio comedy and children's television. He died of a heart attack while on holiday in the United States.
• 1919 – 2008 Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) Died 11 January 2008, aged 88 New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who, with Tenzing Norgay, made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. He spent much of his later life supporting humanitarian projects in Nepal.
• 1919 – 1987 Primo Levi (1919-1987) Died 11 April 1987, aged 67 Levi was an Italian chemist and writer best known for If This Is a Man, his memoir of surviving imprisonment at Auschwitz. His writing became central to Holocaust literature worldwide. He died at his home in Turin in a fall ruled by authorities to be suicide.