April 19
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April 19 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining after April 19 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1320 – King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
- 1452 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
- 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
- 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
- 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
- 1721 – Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
- 1721 – Thomas McKean, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
- 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
- 1793 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
- 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
- 1882 – Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
- 1883 – Richard von Mises, mathematician (d. 1953)
- 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
- 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1897 – Constance Talmadge, actress (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man
- 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1900 – Richard Hughes, novelist (d. 1976)
- 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
- 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot with the most amount of kills (352)
- 1924 – Werner Kohlmeyer, German footballer (d. 1974)
- 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
- 1928 – Alexis Korner, musician (d. 1984)
- 1930 – Dick Sargent, actor (d. 1994)
- 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
- 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
- 1934 – Jean Ziegler, Swiss sociologist and politician
- 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
- 1936 – Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
- 1937 – Joseph Estrada, actor and former President of the Philippines
- 1942 – Frank Elstner, German entertainer
- 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize
- 1944 – Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (P Funk)
- 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
- 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
- 1949 – Joachim Sauer, husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- 1949 – Paloma Picasso, designer, daughter of Pablo Picasso
- 1951 – Joannes Eidesgaard, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- 1952 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
- 1953 – Ruby Wax, American-born British television personality
- 1956 – Sue Barker, British tennis player and television presenter
- 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and musical producer
- 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
- 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
- 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., race car driver
- 1965 – Suge Knight, record producer
- 1967 – Steven H Silver, science fiction editor
- 1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
- 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
- 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
- 1970 – Kelly Holmes, British athlete
- 1970 – Luis Miguel, singer
- 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
- 1978 – James Franco, American actor
- 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
- 1981 – Hayden Christensen, actor
- 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress
- 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
- 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
- 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
- 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
- 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
- 1689 – Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
- 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- 1824 – Lord Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
- 1882 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
- 1906 – Pierre Curie, French scientist (b. 1859)
- 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
- 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- 1974 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
- 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
- 1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
- 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
- 2004 – John Maynard Smith, British theoretical evolutionary biologist (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2009 – J. G. Ballard, British writer (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1961)
- 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1948)
- 2011 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (b. 1953)
[change] Events
- 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries the future King Louis XVI of France.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War begins at Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent state.
- 1882 – Charles Darwin dies aged 73.
- 1897 – The first Boston marathon takes place.
- 1904 – A fire in Toronto destroys 104 buildings.
- 1943 – Holocaust: German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1945 – The Soviet Union and Guatemala establish diplomatic relations.
- 1948 – Burma joins the UN.
- 1951 – Douglas MacArthur retires from the US military.
- 1956 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries Hollywood actress Grace Kelly.
- 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a Republic, with Siaka Stevens as President.
- 1987 – The Simpsons premiere on the Tracey Ullman Show.
- 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 1993 – The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, as fire breaks out, killing 82 cult members, including David Koresh.
- 1995 – Timothy McVeigh carries out the Oklahoma City bombing, killing 169 people.
- 1999 – The German Bundestag moves its seat to Berlin.
- 2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger is chosen to become Pope. He chooses to be known as Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee, after 45 years.
