December 19

2023 Calendar

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

211 - Geta, Roman Emperor
401 – Pope Anastasius I
1075 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
1111 - Al-Ghazali, Persian theologian and philosopher
1123 - Saint Berardo, Italian bishop
1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1475 - Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b. 1418)
1737 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1751 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1807 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, English inventor and locksmith (b. 1748)
1819 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1848 – Emily Brontë, English writer (b. 1818)
1851 – J. M. W. Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
1859 - Mirabeau B. Lamar, American politician and President of Texas (b. 1798)
1860 - Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1817)
1899 - Henry Ware Lawton, American Civil War general (b. 1843)

1901 – 2000

1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1916 - Thibaw Min, King of Burma (b. 1859)
1927 - Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
1927 - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist (b. 1897)
1927 - Roshan Singh, Indian activist (b. 1892)
1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation (executed) (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857)
1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 - Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1967 – Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1968 – Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1976 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
1977 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governor of Wyoming (b. 1876)
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author and critic (b. 1906)
1988 - Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
1989 – Stella Gibbons, English writer (b. 1902)
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (b. 1908)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (b. 1915)
2000 - John Lindsay, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)

From 2001

2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1941)
2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2008 - Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
2009 – Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian cleric (b. 1922)
2009 – Kim Peek, American megasavant, inspiration for the movie Rain Man (b. 1951)
2012 - Peter Struck, German politician (b. 1943)
2012 - Robert Bork, American judge and scholar (b. 1927)
2013 - Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (b. 1928)
2013 - Ned Vizzini, American writer (b. 1981)
2014 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (b. 1936)
2014 - Philip Bradbourn, English politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Arthur Gardner, American movie and television producer (b. 1910)
2015 - Jimmy Hill, English footballer and pundit (b. 1928)
2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
2015 - Greville Janner, British politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Karin Söder, Swedish politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2015 - Selma Reis, Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1960)
2016 - Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)
2017 - Lito Cruz, Argentine actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Clifford Irving, American author (b. 1930)
2017 - Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1971)
2018 - Tömür Dawamat, Chinese Uighur politician; b. '27
2018 - Mel Hutchins, American basketball player; b. '28
2018 - Geetha Salam, Indian actor; b. '48
Twenty-nineteen
- Ricardo de Aparici, Argentine lawyer and politician; b. '40
- Francisco Brennand, Brazilian sculptor; b. '27
- Jules Deelder, Dutch poet; b. '44
- Jan de Laval, Swedish actor; b. '48
- Ward Just, American journalist and writer; b. '35
- George Metallinos, Greek priest; b. '40
- Yoshio Mochizuki, Japanese politician; b. '47
- Shahdon Winchester, Trinidadian footballer
- Alba Zaluar, Brazilian anthropologist; b. '42

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (d. 1996)
1905 - Irving Kahn, American businessman (d. 2015)
1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
1910 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
1913 - Juan Landazuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima (d. 1997)
1915 - Claudia Testoni, Italian athlete (d. 1998)
1915 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1916 - Manoel de Barros, Brazilian poet (d. 2014)
1916 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German publicist (d. 2010)
1918 – Professor Longhair, American musician (d. 1980)
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (d. 2015)
1920 - Alexander McAllister, Scottish cricketer
1920 – David Susskind, movie, stage, and television producer (d. 1987)
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (d. 1987)
1923 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish movie, stage and television actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016)
1925 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (d. 2017)
1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012)
1925 - Rabah Bitat, President of Algeria (d. 2000)
1926 - Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (d. 2015)
1927 - Remo Capitani, Italian actor (d. 2014)
1929 - Lorenzo Buffon, Italian footballer
1929 – Bob Brookmeyer, American musician (d. 2011)
1930 - Georg Stollenwerk, German footballer (d. 2014)
1932 - Thomas Hunter, American actor (d. 2017)
1932 - Bernhard Vogel, German politician
1933 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
1934 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006)
1934 – Al Kaline, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1934 – Pratibha Patil, former President of India
1935 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 - Marian McKnight, American model
1938 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (d. 2007)
1940 – Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter (d. 1976)
1941 – Maurice White, American musician (d. 2016)
1941 – Lee Myung-bak, former President of South Korea
1942 – Cornell Dupree, American musician (d. 2011)
1943 - Sam Kelly, English actor (d. 2014)
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan anthropologist (d. 2022)
1944 – Alvin Lee, British musician (d. 2013)
1946 – Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1947 - Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Jupp Kapellmann, German footballer
1949 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (d. 2011)
1949 – Claudia Kolb, swimmer
1949 - Carlos Gomes Junior, former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
1950 - Walter Frosch, German footballer (d. 2013)

1951 – 1975

1951 - Mohammed Reza Aref, 2nd Vice President of Iran
1952 - Walter Murphy, American songwriter and musician
1955 - Rob Portman, American politician
1956 – Jens Fink-Jensen, Danish writer
1957 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1957 - Cyril Collard, French actor, director and composer (d. 1993)
1957 - Michael E. Fossum, American astronaut
1957 - John Gulager, American actor, cinematographer and director
1958 - José Aguilar, Cuban boxer (d. 2014)
1959 - Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorean footballer
1960 – Mike Lookinland, actor
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist
1961 – Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1963 - Jennifer Beals, American actress
1964 – Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1964 - Béatrice Dalle, French actress
1965 - Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
1965 – Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian skier
1967 – Criss Angel, American illusionist
1968 - Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
1968 - Kristina Keneally, 42nd Premier of New South Wales
1969 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
1969 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 – Richard Hammond, British television presenter
1971 – Tiffany Towers, American actress
1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player
1974 – Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer

From 1976

1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 – Gareth Williams, Welsh rugby player
1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1980 - Billy O'Sullivan, American actor
1980 – Marla Sokoloff, actress
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 – Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, Australian footballer
1985 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 – Lady Sovereign, English musician
1985 - Dan Logan, English bass player
1986 – Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
1987 – Karim Benzema, French footballer
1988 – Alexis Sanchez, Chilean footballer
1989 - Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
1991 – Declan Galbraith, English singer
1991 - Edwin Jackson, American football player (d. 2018)
1991 - Jorge Blanco, Mexican actor and singer
1992 - Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
1993 - Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer
1994 - Michele Bravi, Italian singer
1994 - Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (d. 2016)
1995 - Brandur Olsen, Faroese footballer
1998 - Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer

Deaths

Observances

Liberation Day (Goa)
National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)