On this day: 19 January
Events, births and deaths on 19 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Seoul Western District Court riot
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Ettore Scola
- Deaths · Richard Levins
- Deaths · Sheila Sim
100 years ago1926
- Births · Fritz Weaver
- Births · Hans Massaquoi
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 13
- 1520Battle of Bogesund — 1520 battle
- 1795Batavian Republic — republic of the Netherlands in Western Europe between 1795–1806
- 1862Battle of Mill Springs — 1862 battle fought in Wayne and Pulaski counties during the American Civil War
- 1871Battle of St. Quentin — 1871 battle
- 1960Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan — 1960 treaty establishing the current Japanese-American military alliance
- 1960Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 — 1960 aviation accident
- 1974Battle of the Paracel Islands — 1974 naval battle between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) in the Paracel Islands
- 19751975 Kinnaur earthquake — Earthquake in Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1988Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 — 1988 aviation accident
- 1995Bristow Flight 56C — aviation accident
- 20062006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash — aviation accident
- 2007assassination of Hrant Dink — 2007 assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist
- 20252025 Seoul Western District Court riot — 2025 riot in South Korea
Births · 60
- 399(Julian date)Pulcheria — Byzantine empress, wife of Marcian
- 1200(Julian date)Dōgen — Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
- 1544(Julian date)Francis II of France — King of France from 1559 to 1560 (1544-1560)
- 1736James Watt — British engineer (1736–1819)
- 1798Auguste Comte — French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
- 1807Robert E. Lee — Confederate States general (1807–1870)
- 1808Lysander Spooner — American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
- 1809Edgar Allan Poe — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
- 1813Henry Bessemer — British engineer (1813-1898)
- 1839Paul Cézanne — French painter (1839–1906)
- 1851Jacobus Kapteyn — Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)
- 1863Werner Sombart — German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)
- 1878Herbert Chapman — English association football player and manager (1878-1934)
- 1879(Julian date)Boris Savinkov — Russian writer (1879-1925)
- 1912Leonid Kantorovich — Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
- 1920Javier Pérez de Cuéllar — 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
- 1921Patricia Highsmith — American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
- 1922Miguel Muñoz — Spanish association football player and manager (1922–1990)
- 1923Jean Stapleton — American actress (1923–2013)
- 1930Tippi Hedren — American actress, model and activist
- 1932Richard Lester — American film director
- 1936Ziaur Rahman — Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh (1936-1981)
- 1937Princess Birgitta of Sweden — Swedish princess (1937-2024); elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- 1937Joseph Nye — American political scientist
- 1940Paolo Borsellino — Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia (1940-1992)
Deaths · 60
- 520(Julian date)John of Cappadocia — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 639(Julian date)Dagobert I — Frankish king
- 1302(Julian date)al-Hakim I — Abbasid Caliph of Cairo
- 1526(Julian date)Isabella of Austria — Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; (1501-1526)
- 1547(Julian date)Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — 16th-century English nobleman; (1516-1547)
- 1565(Julian date)Diego Laynez — (1512-1565) Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- 1570(Julian date)Paris Bordone — Italian artist (1500–1570)
- 1576(Julian date)
- 1597Pratap Singh — 16th century ruler of Mewar, India
- 1629Abbas the Great — Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)
- 1729William Congreve — British writer (1670-1729)
- 1833Ferdinand Hérold — French composer (1791–1833)
- 1847(Julian date)Athanasios Christopoulos — Greek poet
- 1851Esteban Echeverría Mamani — Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist
- 1865Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
- 1869Carl Reichenbach — German scientist and philosopher (1788–1869)
- 1874August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben — German scholar and poet (1798–1874)
- 1878Henri Victor Regnault — French physicist (1810–1878)
- 1899Katsu Kaishū — Japanese noble, statesman and naval engineer (1823–1899)
- 1906Bartolomé Mitre — president of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician
- 1929Liang Chi-chao — Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
- 1930Frank P. Ramsey — British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
- 1938Branislav Nušić — Serbian writer
- 1948Tony Garnier — French architect (1869–1948)
- 1954Theodor Kaluza — mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)
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