July 19th All Events |
Read about file extension history in file extension history DB |
| July 19th, 2007 (July 19 2007) | Death | Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (born in 1944) | |
| July 19th, 2007 (July 19 2007) | Death | A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (born in 1945) | |
| July 19th, 2006 (July 19 2006) | Death | Jack Warden, American actor (born in 1920) | |
| July 19th, 2005 (July 19 2005) | Death | John Tyndall, British politician (born in 1934) | John Tyndall Quotes |
| July 19th, 2005 (July 19 2005) | Death | Edward Bunker, American writer (born in 1933) | |
| July 19th, 2004 (July 19 2004) | Death | Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (born in 1924) | |
| July 19th, 2004 (July 19 2004) | Death | Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (born in 1911) | |
| July 19th, 2003 (July 19 2003) | Death | Bill Bright, American evangelist (born in 1921) | |
| July 19th, 2003 (July 19 2003) | Death | Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1908) | |
| July 19th, 2002 (July 19 2002) | Death | Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (born in 1915) | |
| July 19th, 1998 (July 19 1998) | Death | Elmer Valo, baseball player (born in 1921) | |
| July 19th, 1990 (July 19 1990) | Birth | Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1990 (July 19 1990) | Death | Eddie Quillan, American actor (born in 1907) | |
| July 19th, 1989 (July 19 1989) | Event | United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers. | |
| July 19th, 1989 (July 19 1989) | Death | Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (born in 1913) | |
| July 19th, 1985 (July 19 1985) | Event | The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. | |
| July 19th, 1985 (July 19 1985) | Death | Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (born in 1938) | |
| July 19th, 1984 (July 19 1984) | Birth | Lasse Gjertsen, Norweigan animator | |
| July 19th, 1984 (July 19 1984) | Birth | Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress | |
| July 19th, 1984 (July 19 1984) | Birth | Adam Morrison, American basketball player | |
| July 19th, 1984 (July 19 1984) | Birth | Lewis Price, Welsh footballer | |
| July 19th, 1984 (July 19 1984) | Death | Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (born in 1896) | |
| July 19th, 1983 (July 19 1983) | Event | The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. | |
| July 19th, 1982 (July 19 1982) | Birth | Jared Padalecki, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1982 (July 19 1982) | Birth | Stuart Parnaby, English footballer | |
| July 19th, 1982 (July 19 1982) | Birth | Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer | |
| July 19th, 1982 (July 19 1982) | Death | John Harvey, stage and film actor (born in 1911) | |
| July 19th, 1981 (July 19 1981) | Birth | Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause) | |
| July 19th, 1981 (July 19 1981) | Birth | Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player | |
| July 19th, 1981 (July 19 1981) | Birth | Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer | |
| July 19th, 1981 (July 19 1981) | Birth | Nikki Osborne, Australian actress | |
| July 19th, 1981 (July 19 1981) | Death | Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (born in 1919) | |
| July 19th, 1980 (July 19 1980) | Birth | Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver | |
| July 19th, 1980 (July 19 1980) | Birth | Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player | |
| July 19th, 1980 (July 19 1980) | Birth | Mark Webber, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1980 (July 19 1980) | Death | Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (born in 1912) | |
| July 19th, 1979 (July 19 1979) | Event | The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. | |
| July 19th, 1979 (July 19 1979) | Birth | Luke Young, English footballer | |
| July 19th, 1979 (July 19 1979) | Birth | Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder | |
| July 19th, 1978 (July 19 1978) | Birth | Nene, Brazilian footballer | |
| July 19th, 1977 (July 19 1977) | Birth | Ed Smith, English cricketer | |
| July 19th, 1977 (July 19 1977) | Birth | Charles John Spencer, American professional wrestler | |
| July 19th, 1977 (July 19 1977) | Birth | Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer | |
| July 19th, 1977 (July 19 1977) | Birth | Jean-Sebastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender | |
| July 19th, 1976 (July 19 1976) | Event | Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. | |
| July 19th, 1976 (July 19 1976) | Birth | Vinessa Shaw, American actress | |
| July 19th, 1975 (July 19 1975) | Death | Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (born in 1928) | |
| July 19th, 1974 (July 19 1974) | Birth | Preston Wilson, baseball player | |
| July 19th, 1974 (July 19 1974) | Death | Joe Flynn, American actor (born in 1924) | |
| July 19th, 1974 (July 19 1974) | Death | Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (born in 1904) | |
| July 19th, 1973 (July 19 1973) | Birth | Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth) | |
| July 19th, 1973 (July 19 1973) | Birth | Said Taghmaoui, French actor | |
| July 19th, 1973 (July 19 1973) | Birth | Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player | |
| July 19th, 1972 (July 19 1972) | Birth | Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer | |
| July 19th, 1972 (July 19 1972) | Death | Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (born in 1884) | |
| July 19th, 1971 (July 19 1971) | Birth | Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X) | |
| July 19th, 1971 (July 19 1971) | Birth | Urs Buhler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo) | |
| July 19th, 1971 (July 19 1971) | Birth | Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer | |
| July 19th, 1968 (July 19 1968) | Birth | Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head) | |
| July 19th, 1968 (July 19 1968) | Birth | Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show) | |
| July 19th, 1967 (July 19 1967) | Birth | Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model | |
| July 19th, 1966 (July 19 1966) | Birth | Nancy Walls, American actress | |
| July 19th, 1966 (July 19 1966) | Birth | David Segui, American baseball player | |
| July 19th, 1965 (July 19 1965) | Birth | Stuart Scott, American sportscaster | |
| July 19th, 1965 (July 19 1965) | Death | Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (born in 1875) | |
| July 19th, 1964 (July 19 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam. | |
| July 19th, 1964 (July 19 1964) | Birth | Andre A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association | |
| July 19th, 1964 (July 19 1964) | Birth | Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver | |
| July 19th, 1963 (July 19 1963) | Event | Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. | |
| July 19th, 1963 (July 19 1963) | Birth | Garth Nix, Australian author | |
| July 19th, 1962 (July 19 1962) | Birth | Anthony Edwards, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1961 (July 19 1961) | Birth | Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast | |
| July 19th, 1961 (July 19 1961) | Birth | Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director | |
| July 19th, 1961 (July 19 1961) | Birth | Campbell Scott, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1961 (July 19 1961) | Birth | Benoit Mariage, Belgian film director | |
| July 19th, 1960 (July 19 1960) | Birth | Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker | |
| July 19th, 1958 (July 19 1958) | Birth | Reuben Kane, American professional wrestler | |
| July 19th, 1958 (July 19 1958) | Birth | David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor | |
| July 19th, 1956 (July 19 1956) | Birth | Nikki Sudden, English musician (died in 2006) | |
| July 19th, 1954 (July 19 1954) | Birth | Srda Trifkovic, Serbian-American journalist | |
| July 19th, 1952 (July 19 1952) | Birth | Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (died in 1990) | |
| July 19th, 1952 (July 19 1952) | Birth | Robert A. Ficano, American politician | |
| July 19th, 1952 (July 19 1952) | Birth | John Griesheimer, American politician | |
| July 19th, 1951 (July 19 1951) | Birth | Abel Ferrara, American filmmake | |
| July 19th, 1951 (July 19 1951) | Birth | Jayson Stark, American sportswriter | |
| July 19th, 1950 (July 19 1950) | Birth | Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance | |
| July 19th, 1950 (July 19 1950) | Birth | Freddy Moore, American songwriter | |
| July 19th, 1949 (July 19 1949) | Birth | Ivar Kants, Australian actor | |
| July 19th, 1948 (July 19 1948) | Birth | Beverly Archer, American actress | |
| July 19th, 1948 (July 19 1948) | Birth | Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (died in 1980) | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Event | Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated. | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Birth | Hans-Jurgen Kreische, East German footballer | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Birth | Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles) | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Birth | Brian May, English musician (Queen) | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Death | Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (born in 1915) | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Death | U Razak, Burmese politician (born in 1898) | |
| July 19th, 1946 (July 19 1946) | Birth | Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band) | |
| July 19th, 1946 (July 19 1946) | Birth | Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player | |
| July 19th, 1942 (July 19 1942) | Event | World War II: Battle of the AtlanticGerman Grand Admiral Karl Donitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system. | Karl Donitz Quotes |
| July 19th, 1941 (July 19 1941) | Birth | Vikki Carr, American singer | |
| July 19th, 1941 (July 19 1941) | Birth | Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition | |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Twelve men were promoted Generalfeldmarschall by Adolf Hitler, see List of German Field Marshals. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Battle of Cape SpadaThe Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties. | |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army. | |
| July 19th, 1939 (July 19 1939) | Death | Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (born in 1850) | Rose Hartwick Thorpe Quotes |
| July 19th, 1938 (July 19 1938) | Birth | Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist | |
| July 19th, 1938 (July 19 1938) | Birth | Nicholas Bethell, British historian (died in 2007) | |
| July 19th, 1938 (July 19 1938) | Birth | Richard Jordan, American actor (died in 1993) | |
| July 19th, 1937 (July 19 1937) | Birth | George Hamilton IV, American country singer | |
| July 19th, 1935 (July 19 1935) | Birth | Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor | |
| July 19th, 1934 (July 19 1934) | Birth | Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (died in 1980) | |
| July 19th, 1926 (July 19 1926) | Birth | Helen Gallagher, American actress | Gallagher Quotes |
| July 19th, 1925 (July 19 1925) | Birth | Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer | |
| July 19th, 1924 (July 19 1924) | Birth | Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (died in 2005) | |
| July 19th, 1924 (July 19 1924) | Birth | Pat Hingle, American actor | |
| July 19th, 1923 (July 19 1923) | Birth | William A. Rusher, American columnist | |
| July 19th, 1922 (July 19 1922) | Birth | Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio | |
| July 19th, 1922 (July 19 1922) | Birth | George McGovern, American politician | |
| July 19th, 1921 (July 19 1921) | Birth | Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| July 19th, 1919 (July 19 1919) | Event | Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall. | |
| July 19th, 1919 (July 19 1919) | Birth | Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (died in 2005) | |
| July 19th, 1917 (July 19 1917) | Birth | William Scranton, American politician | |
| July 19th, 1914 (July 19 1914) | Birth | Marius Russo, baseball player (died in 2005) | |
| July 19th, 1913 (July 19 1913) | Death | Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia (born in 1852) | |
| July 19th, 1912 (July 19 1912) | Event | A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town. | |
| July 19th, 1912 (July 19 1912) | Birth | Norman Carr, British conservationist (born in 1997) | |
| July 19th, 1908 (July 19 1908) | Event | Dutch footballclub Feyenoord Rotterdam is founded. | |
| July 19th, 1904 (July 19 1904) | Birth | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d.1985) | |
| July 19th, 1898 (July 19 1898) | Birth | Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (died in 1979) | Philo Quotes |
| July 19th, 1896 (July 19 1896) | Birth | A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (died in 1981) | |
| July 19th, 1896 (July 19 1896) | Birth | Bob Meusel, American baseball player (died in 1977) | |
| July 19th, 1896 (July 19 1896) | Death | Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (born in 1859) | Abraham Quotes |
| July 19th, 1895 (July 19 1895) | Birth | Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died in 1953) | |
| July 19th, 1894 (July 19 1894) | Birth | Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (died in 1965) | |
| July 19th, 1894 (July 19 1894) | Birth | Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (died in 1959) | |
| July 19th, 1893 (July 19 1893) | Birth | Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (died in 1930) | |
| July 19th, 1892 (July 19 1892) | Birth | Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died in 1957) | |
| July 19th, 1883 (July 19 1883) | Birth | Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (died in 1972) | |
| July 19th, 1879 (July 19 1879) | Event | Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon. | |
| July 19th, 1877 (July 19 1877) | Birth | Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (died in 1949) | |
| July 19th, 1876 (July 19 1876) | Birth | Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died in 1972) | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| July 19th, 1870 (July 19 1870) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. | |
| July 19th, 1868 (July 19 1868) | Death | Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (born in 1842 or 1844) | |
| July 19th, 1865 (July 19 1865) | Birth | Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (died in 1939) | Horace Quotes |
| July 19th, 1863 (July 19 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Morgan s RaidAt Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan s raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River. | |
| July 19th, 1860 (July 19 1860) | Birth | Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (died in 1927) | |
| July 19th, 1857 (July 19 1857) | Death | Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1796) | |
| July 19th, 1850 (July 19 1850) | Death | Margaret Fuller, American writer (born in 1810) | Margaret Fuller Quotes |
| July 19th, 1848 (July 19 1848) | Event | Women s rights: The two day Women s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention. | |
| July 19th, 1843 (July 19 1843) | Event | Brunel s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. | |
| July 19th, 1838 (July 19 1838) | Death | Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (born in 1785) | |
| July 19th, 1834 (July 19 1834) | Birth | Edgar Degas, French painter (died in 1917) | Edgar Degas Quotes |
| July 19th, 1827 (July 19 1827) | Birth | Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (died in 1857) | |
| July 19th, 1822 (July 19 1822) | Birth | Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died in 1916) | |
| July 19th, 1819 (July 19 1819) | Birth | Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (died in 1890) | |
| July 19th, 1814 (July 19 1814) | Birth | Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (died in 1862) | |
| July 19th, 1814 (July 19 1814) | Death | Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (born in 1774) | |
| July 19th, 1810 (July 19 1810) | Death | Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (born in 1776) | |
| July 19th, 1800 (July 19 1800) | Birth | Juan Jose Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (died in 1864) | |
| July 19th, 1799 (July 19 1799) | Event | A group of Napoleon Bonaparte s soldiers discover what is now know as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| July 19th, 1789 (July 19 1789) | Birth | John Martin, English painter (died in 1854) | John Martin Quotes |
| July 19th, 1760 (July 19 1760) | Event | The formal request to found the later city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders. | |
| July 19th, 1759 (July 19 1759) | Birth | Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (died in 1833) | |
| July 19th, 1744 (July 19 1744) | Birth | Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (died in 1806) | |
| July 19th, 1742 (July 19 1742) | Death | William Somervile, English poet (born in 1675) | |
| July 19th, 1692 (July 19 1692) | Event | Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. | |
| July 19th, 1692 (July 19 1692) | Death | Sarah Good, Puritan accused of being witch during Salem Witch Trials (born in 1653) | |
| July 19th, 1688 (July 19 1688) | Birth | Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (died in 1766) | |
| July 19th, 1687 (July 19 1687) | Death | Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (born in 1637) | |
| July 19th, 1670 (July 19 1670) | Birth | Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (died in 1758) | |
| July 19th, 1631 (July 19 1631) | Death | Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (born in 1550) | Philo Quotes |
| July 19th, 1588 (July 19 1588) | Event | Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of GravelinesThe Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel. | |
| July 19th, 1553 (July 19 1553) | Event | Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days. | Jane Ace Quotes |
| July 19th, 1545 (July 19 1545) | Event | The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth. | |
| July 19th, 1544 (July 19 1544) | Event | Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began. | |
| July 19th, 1543 (July 19 1543) | Death | Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| July 19th, 1415 (July 19 1415) | Death | Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (born in 1359) | |
| July 19th, 1374 (July 19 1374) | Death | Petrarch, Italian poet (born in 1304) | Petrarch Quotes |
| July 19th, 1333 (July 19 1333) | Event | Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon HillThe final battle of the war. | |
| July 19th, 0931 (July 19 0931) | Death | Uda, Emperor of Japan (born in 867) | |
| July 19th, 0711 (July 19 0711) | Event | Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. | |
| July 19th, 0514 (July 19 0514) | Death | Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy | |
