May 19

2024 Calendar

May 19 is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 226 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. 735)
988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. 1045)
1125 – Vladimir II Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1218 - Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1175)
1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
1389 - Dmitry Donskoy, son of Ivan II of Moscow (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Laski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 – Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII (b. 1501)
1601 - Constanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher (b. 1588)
1648 - Stefan Potocki, Polish nobleman (b. 1624)
1715 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English politician and poet (b. 1661)
1795 – Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Claude Henry de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher (b. 1760)
1831 - Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist and entomologist (b. 1793)
1840 - John Adair, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1757)
1860 - Ang Duong, King of Cambodia (b. 1796)
1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (b. 1804)
1865 - Sengge Rinchen, Mongol nobleman and general (b. 1811)
1895 – Jose Marti, Cuban writer and revolutionary (b. 1853)
1896 – Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (b. 1833)
1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister (b. 1809)
1898 – Oran M. Roberts, 18th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1901 – 2000

1901 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician (b. 1819)
1904 - Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (b. 1831)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 - Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (b. 1842)
1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1950 - Daniel Ciugureanu, Moldovan politician and Prime Minister (b. 1884)
1950 - Giuseppe Garibaldi II, Italian adventurer, grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1879)
1954 – Charles Ives, composer (b. 1874)
1955 - Concha Espina, Spanish writer (b. 1869)
1962 - Gabriele Münter, German painter (b. 1877)
1963 – Walter Russell, American artist (b. 1880)
1965 - Maria Dobrowska, Polish writer (b. 1889)
1965 – Tu'i Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1877)
1966 - Theodore F. Green, American politician, 57th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1867)
1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1901)
1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
1975 – Robert E. Quinn, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1894)
1978 - Albert Kivikas, Estonian writer and journalist (b. 1898)
1983 – Jean Ley, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
1984 – John Betjeman, British poet (b. 1906)
1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
1998 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
1999 - Candy Candido, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)

From 2001

2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 – John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2006 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (b. 1916)
2011 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1926)
2012 - Ian Burgess, English racing driver (b. 1930)
2014 - Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver (b. 1926)
2014 - Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Polish boxer (b. 1934)
2014 - Simon Andrews, British motorcycle racer (b. 1982)
2014 - Mario Missiroli, Italian movie director (b. 1934)
2015 - Ahmad Alasgarov, Azerbaijani footballer (b. 1935)
2015 - Robert S. Wistrich, Kazakh-born British-Israeli professor (b. 1945)
2015 - Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1926)
2015 - Gerald Götting, German politician (b. 1923)
2015 - Edmond J. Gong, American politician (b. 1930)
2015 - Dale D. Myers, American aerospace engineer (b. 1922)
2015 - Burhan Muhammad, Indonesian diplomat (b. 1957)
2016 - Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and director (b. 1923)
2016 - John Berry, American guitarist (Beastie Boys) (b. 1963)
2016 - Jim Ray Hart, American baseball player (b. 1941)
2016 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
2016 - Morley Safer, Canadian-American broadcast journalist (b. 1931)
2016 - Alan Young, English-born Canadian-American actor (b. 1919)
2017 - Rich Buckler, American comic book artist (b. 1949)
2017 - Huub Ernst, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1917)
2017 - Nawshirwan Mustafa, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Stanislav Petrov, Soviet-Russian lieutenant colonel (b. 1939)
2017 - Kid Vinil, Brazilian musician and record producer (b. 1955)
2017 - Wayne Walker, American football player (b. 1936)
2018 - Harvey Hall, American businessman and politician, 25th Mayor of Bakersfield, California (b. 1941)
2018 - Maya Jribi, Tunisian politician (b. 1960)
2018 - Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928)
2018 - Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (b. 1916)
2018 - Reggie Lucas, American songwriter (b. 1953)
2018 - Ernst Sieber, Swiss pastor and social activist (b. 1927)
2018 - Roland Vogt, German politician (b. 1941)
2019 - Carlos Altamirano, Chilean politician (b. 1922)
2019 - Nilda Fernández, Spanish-French singer (b. 1957)
2019 - Amédée Grab, Swiss Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1930)
2019 - Nickey Iyambo, Vice president of Namibia (b. 1936)
2019 - Julio César Trujillo, Ecuadorean lawyer and politician (b. 1931)

Births

1901 – 1950

1906 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (d. 2007)
1908 - Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian Bengali novelist (d. 1956)
1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
1909 – Nicholas Winton, British man who organised the Czech Kindertransport to save hundreds of Jewish children (d. 2015)
1910 – Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
1913 - Bill Sinkin, American equality and alternative energy activist (d. 2014)
1914 - Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-British molecular biologist (d. 2002)
1915 - Renée Asherson, English actress (d. 2014)
1916 – Blair Lee III, acting Governor of Maryland (d. 1985)
1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist (d. 2000)
1919 – Mitja Ribicic, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (d. 2014)
1924 - Sandy Wilson, English composer and lyricist (d. 2014)
1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1926 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
1926 - David Jacobs, British broadcaster (d. 2013)
1926 - Fernand Raynaud, French actor and singer (d. 1973)
1928 – George Sinner, 29th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2018)
1928 - Colin Chapman, English automobile designer, inventor and builder (d. 1982)
1928 - Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1931 - Alfred Schmidt, German philosopher (d. 2012)
1932 – Alma Cogan, British singer (d. 1966)
1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and writer (d. 2007)
1933 – Edward de Bono, Maltese-British lateral thinker
1934 - Bill Fitch, American basketball coach
1934 - Jim Lehrer, American journalist
1938 - Girish Karnad, Indian writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director (d. 2019)
1938 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
1938 - Tom Gilbey, British fashion designer (d. 2017)
1939 – Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1939 – Jamie Fox, British actor
1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1941 - Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Maltese-British lawyer and judge
1941 - Tania Mallet, English model and actress (d. 2019)
1941 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter and movie director (d. 2012)
1942 - Gary Kildall, American computer scientist (d. 1994)
1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, English television presenter and politician
1944 - Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
1945 – Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
1946 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
1946 - André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
1946 – John D. Waihee III, 4th Governor of Hawaii
1947 – Steve Currie, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1981)
1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and musician (ZZ Top and American Blues) (d. 2021)
1950 - Austin Stevens, South African herpetologist, photographer, moviemaker and author

1951 – 1975

1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
1953 – Victoria Wood, English actress, singer and comedienne (d. 2016)
1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer
1955 – James Gosling, Canadian computer scientist
1956 - Oliver Letwin, British politician
1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994)
1960 - Yazz, British singer and model
1963 - Filippo Galli, Italian footballer and manager
1964 – Miloslav Mecir, Slovakian tennis player
1965 - Boris, French singer-songwriter
1966 – Jodi Picoult, American writer
1967 - Alexia, Italian singer
1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
1968 - Kyle Eastwood, American musician
1969 - Thomas Vinterberg, Danish film director
1969 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (d. 2005)
1970 - Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (d. 2010)
1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish racing driver
1973 - Alice Roberts, English anthropologist and television presenter
1975 - Jonas Renkse, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

From 1976

1976 - Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
1978 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
1979 – Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
1980 - Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
1981 – Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
1982 - Rebecca Hall, British actress
1984 - Inna Modja, Maliian-French singer
1985 - Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player
1986 – Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
1987 – Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
1987 - David Edgar, Canadian footballer
1989 - Jasmine, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1991 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
1992 - Sam Smith, British singer and songwriter
1992 - Heather Watson, British tennis player
1992 - Ola John, Dutch footballer
1994 - Carlos Guzman, Mexican footballer

Deaths

Observances

Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
Pontic Greek genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
Ho Chi Minh's birthday (Vietnam)
Malcolm X Day (United States)