October 19
October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 727 - Frithuswith, English saint (b. 650)
- 1187 – Pope Urban III
- 1216 – King John of England (b. 1167)
- 1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- 1619 - Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher and educator (b. 1561)
- 1682 – Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
- 1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
- 1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (b. 1667)
- 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
- 1813 – Jozef Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (b. 1763)
- 1815 - Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician (b. 1755)
- 1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
- 1851 - Marie Thérèse of France (b. 1778)
- 1856 - William Sprague, American politician (b. 1799)
- 1860 - Ang Duong, Cambodian King (b. 1796)
- 1889 – King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
- 1890 – Richard Francis Burton, British explorer (b. 1821)
- 1893 - Lucy Stone, American activist (b. 1818)
- 1897 - George Pullman, American engineer and businessman (b. 1831)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
- 1905 - Virgil Earp, American Western figure (b. 1843)
- 1911 - Eugene Burton Ely, American aviator (b. 1886)
- 1912 - Julius Maggi, Swiss businessman (b. 1846)
- 1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1921 - Antonio Joaquim Granjo, Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1936 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
- 1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (b. 1871)
- 1940 - Umberto Caligaris, Italian footballer (b. 1901)
- 1940 - Emilio Comici, Italian climber and cave explorer (b. 1901)
- 1943 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
- 1945 – Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
- 1955 - Carlos Davila, Chilean politician, diplomat and journalist (b. 1887)
- 1956 - Isham Jones, American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter (b. 1894)
- 1964 - Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
- 1969 - Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (b. 1881)
- 1970 – Lázaro Cárdenas, President of Mexico (b. 1895)
- 1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
- 1984 – Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest, supported the Solidarity movement (b. 1947)
- 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
- 1987 – Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b. 1945)
- 1994 - Martha Raye, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1995 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
- 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, French novelist (b. 1900)
From 2001
- 2002 - Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and cosmonaut (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
- 2005 - Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
- 2008 - Gianni Raimondi, Italian tenor (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
- 2009 - Howard Unruh, American murderer (b. 1921)
- 2010 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2012 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-English actress (b. 1948)
- 2014 - Etienne Mourrut, French politician (b. 1939)
- 2014 - John Holt, Jamaican singer (b. 1947)
- 2014 - Gloria Casarez, American civil rights activist (b. 1971)
- 2014 - Stephen Paulus, American composer (b. 1949)
- 2014 - Raphael Ravenscroft, British saxophonist (b. 1954)
- 2015 - Ali Treki, Libyan diplomat (b. 1938)
- 2016 - Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (b. 1917)
- 2017 - Umberto Lenzi, Italian film director (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Takanobu Hozumi, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Osamu Shimomura, Japanese biochemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner (b. 1928)
- 2018 - Diana Sowle, American actress (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Erhard Eppler, German politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 - Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Ishmael Levenston, Saban politician (b. 1940)
- 2019 - Joseph Lombardo, American mafioso (b. 1929)
- 2019 - Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1907 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962)
- 1908 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Stein Grieg Halvorsen, Norwegian theatre actor (d. 2013)
- 1910 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (d. 1995)
- 1913 – Vinícius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Haxhi Lleshi, Albanian military and politician (d. 1998)
- 1914 - Juanita Moore, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1915 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician and actor (d. 1974)
- 1916 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994)
- 1916 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist (d. 2009)
- 1917 - Walter Munk, Austrian-born American oceanographer (d. 2019)
- 1918 - Robert Schwarz Strauss, American politician and diplomat (d. 2014)
- 1920 - Pandurana Shastri, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1921 - George Nader, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
- 1924 - Lubomir Strougal, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
- 1925 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2015)
- 1925 - Bernard Hepton, English actor (d. 2018)
- 1925 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and member of the Military Junta (d. 2010)
- 1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
- 1926 - Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina
- 1927 - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian artist
- 1931 - Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013)
- 1931 – John le Carré, English novelist
- 1932 – Robert Reed, actor (d. 1992)
- 1934 - William Frates, American military veteran and radiologist (d. 2019)
- 1934 – Yakubu Gowon, former President of Nigeria
- 1935 - Don Ward, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
- 1935 - Agne Simonsson, Swedish footballer
- 1936 - Sylvia Browne, American author (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Peter Max, American pop artist
- 1938 - Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan poet (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor
- 1940 - Rosny Smarth, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti
- 1941 - Pepetela, Angolan writer, politician and activist
- 1941 - Simon Ward, English actor (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Andrew Vachss, writer and attorney
- 1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1944 - Pepetela, Angolan writer, politician and activist
- 1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (d. 1987)
- 1945 – Divine, actor (d. 1988)
- 1945 – John Lithgow, American actor
- 1945 - Angus Deaton, Scottish-American economist
- 1945 - Gloria Jones, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 – Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist
- 1946 - Bob Holland, Australian cricketer (d. 2017)
- 1946 – Philip Pullman, English writer
- 1946 - Jürgen Croy, East German footballer
- 1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek physicist
- 1952 - Peter Bone, English politician
- 1953 - Sylvie Bermann, French diplomat
- 1953 - Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
- 1954 – Sam Allardyce, English football manager
- 1954 - Joe Bryant, American basketball player
- 1954 - Ken Stott, Scottish actor
- 1955 - LaSalle Ishii, Japanese television personality, actor and director
- 1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
- 1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
- 1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor and director
- 1957 - Karl Wallinger, Welsh singer-songwriter, musician and producer
- 1958 - Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, pianist, producer and actor
- 1958 - Michael Steele, American journalist and politician
- 1959 - Nir Barkat, Israeli politician
- 1959 - Martin Kusch, German philosopher
- 1960 - Jennifer Holliday, American actress and singer
- 1962 – Evander Holyfield, American boxing champion
- 1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
- 1963 – Prince Laurent of Belgium
- 1964 - Jorge Luis González, Cuban-born American boxer
- 1965 – Ty Pennington, American TV carpenter
- 1966 – Jon Favreau, American actor, writer, director
- 1966 – Sinitta, American-British singer
- 1967 - Amy Carter, daughter of Jimmy Carter
- 1969 – DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
- 1969 – Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
- 1969 – Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, actor
- 1969 - Dieter Thomas, German ski jumper
- 1969 - Caroline Catz, English actress
- 1970 - Nouria Mérah-Benida, Algerian runner
- 1971 - David Wagner, German-American footballer and coach
- 1972 – Pras, musician
- 1973 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
From 1976
- 1976 – Paul Hartley, Scottish footballer
- 1976 – Desmond Harrington, American actor
- 1976 – Michael Young, American baseball player
- 1977 – Habib Beye, Senegalese footballer
- 1977 - Jason Reitman, American writer and director
- 1978 - Ruslan Chagaev, Uzbekistani boxer
- 1979 - Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends)
- 1979 - Lei Jia, Chinese singer
- 1981 – Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish racing driver
- 1982 – Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer
- 1982 - Gillian Jacobs, American actress
- 1982 - Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
- 1983 - Vladimir Gabulov, Russian footballer
- 1983 - Cara Santa Maria, American journalist
- 1983 - Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish singer
- 1983 - Adrie Visser, Dutch cyclist
- 1984 - Saki Fujita, Japanese voice actress
- 1985 - Kevin O'Connor, Irish footballer
- 1988 - Dot Rotten, English rapper and musician
- 1989 – Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
- 1990 - Janet Leon, Swedish singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1990 - Ciara Renée, American actress and singer
- 1991 - Cotton Dixon, American singer and pianist
- 1992 - Kim Ji-won, South Korean actress
- 1993 – Abby Sunderland, American sailor
- 2004 – Abilass Jeyarajah, Sri Lankan tsunami survivor
Deaths
Observances
- Constitution Day (Niue)
- Mother Teresa Day (Albania)