December 19
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