October 19

2023 Calendar

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)