registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1904. The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia. At the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Australian delegates succeed in excluding recognition of the principle of racial equality in the League of Nations Covenant. Arts and literature 10 September – J. F. Archibald, founding editor of The Bulletin dies, bequeathing money which would be used to award the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Elioth Gruner wins the Wynne Prize for his work, Spring Frost. Film 4 October – The Sentimental Bloke premieres in Melbourne. Sport Balmain win the 1919 NSWRFL Premiership 11 November – Artilleryman wins the Melbourne Cup January 1919 – A.R.F. Kingscote wins the Australian Open Births 6 January – Geoffrey Bingham, author and Anglican minister (died 2009) 3 February – Bill Alley, cricketer (died 2004) 16 February – Keith Carmody, cricketer (died 1977) 22 February – Mary Maguire, actress (died 1974) 1 March – Reg Sprigg, geologist (died 1994) 20 March – Pat Norton, backstroke swimmer (died 2007) 25 March – Arthur Wade, NSW politician (died 2014) 28 March – Tom Brooks, cricketer (died 2007) 10 April – Vernon Wilcox, politician (died 2004) 1 May – Lance Barnard, Deputy Prime Minister (died 1997) 15 May – Tom Drake-Brockman, politician (died 1992) 22 May – Peter Howson, politician (died 2009) 28 May – Olga Masters, writer (died 1986) 30 May – Jim Miller, Australian rules footballer 24 June – Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy, rugby union footballer (died 2008) 6 July – Edward Kenna, Second World War VC recipient (died 2009) 15 July – Harcourt Dowsley, sportsman (died 2014) 14 September – Gil Langley, cricketer (died 2001) 6 October – Abe Saffron, Sydney crime figure (died 2006) 7 October – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia (died 2011) 5 November – Thomas O'Dwyer, cricketer (died 2005) 19 November – Margaret Whitlam, wife of Gough Whitlam (died 2012) 28 November – Keith Miller, pilot and sportsman (died 2004) 7 December – Wilfred Arthur, World War II fighter ace (died 2000) 10 December – Jean Lee, last woman executed in Australia (died 1951) 17 December – Geraldine Halls (pen name: Charlotte Jay), mystery novelist (died 1996) 29 December – Malcolm Mackay, politician (died 1999) Deaths 9 January – Robert Harper, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1842) 4 February – Richard Bowyer Smith, inventor (born in the United Kingdom)