May 19
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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)