On this day: 19 May
Events, births and deaths on 19 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Events · EgyptAir Flight 804
- Deaths · Alan Young
- Deaths · Morley Safer
100 years ago1926
- Births · Peter Zadek
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1125 · Deaths · Vladimir II Monomakh
- 1102 · Deaths · Stephen
- 988 · Deaths · Dunstan
Events · 25
- 1445(Julian date)First Battle of Olmedo — 1445 battle
- 1643Battle of Rocroi — 1643 French victory against Spanish forces
- 1649Commonwealth of England — historic republic on the British Isles (1649–1660)
- 1780New England's Dark Day — severe air pollution event over parts of New England on May 19, 1780
- 1802Legion of Honour — highest French order of merit
- 1845Franklin's lost expedition — 1845 British expedition of Arctic exploration
- 1911Parks Canada — agency of the Government of Canada
- 1917Rosenborg BK — association football club in Trondheim, Norway
- 1919Turkish War of Independence — war fought between the Turkish National Movement and the Entente and their proxies
- 1922Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union — Soviet Union youth organization
- 19341934 Bulgarian coup d'état — military coup by Zveno that overthrew the Popular Bloc coalition
- 1945Levant Crisis — military confrontation between France and the United Kingdom in Syria in May 1945
- 1959Group 559 — military transportation unit of the People's Army of Vietnam
- 1962Happy Birthday, Mr. President — song sung by Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for John F. Kennedy
- 19851985 China v Hong Kong football match — football match
- 1991Croatian independence referendum — 1991 vote in Croatia
- 1993SAM Colombia Flight 501 — aviation accident
- 2007Romanian presidential impeachment referendum — Romanian political event
- 20102010 Thai political protests — protest
- 20122012 Brindisi school bombing — Wikinews article
- 2012
- 2015Refugio Oil Spill — oil spill in Refugio State Beach, California
- 2016EgyptAir Flight 804 — aircraft that crashed into Mediterranean sea on 19 May 2016
- 2018wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — May 2018 wedding of British royal Prince Harry to American actress Meghan Markle
- 20242024 Varzaqan helicopter crash — May 2024 helicopter crash causing the death of the president of Iran
Births · 60
- 1744Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818
- 1762Johann Gottlieb Fichte — German philosopher (1762–1814)
- 1773Arthur Aikin — British chemist, mineralogist, author (1771/73 - 1854)
- 1795Johns Hopkins — American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist (1795–1873)
- 1861Nellie Melba — Australian opera singer (1861–1931)
- 1870Kitarō Nishida — Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)
- 1879Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor — first female Member of Parliament to take her seat (1879-1964)
- 1881Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- 1890Ho Chi Minh — Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
- 1898
- 1906Bruce Bennett — American actor (1906–2007)
- 1908Percy Williams — Canadian athlete (1908–1982)
- 1909Nicholas Winton — British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 (1909–2015)
- 1913Neelam Sanjiva Reddy — Sixth President of India (1913-1996)
- 1914Max Perutz — Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
- 1918Abraham Pais — Dutch-American physicist and science historian (1918–2000)
- 1925Malcolm X — American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
- 1925Pol Pot — former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1925–1998)
- 1928Colin Chapman — English design engineer (1928–1982)
- 1928Dolph Schayes — American basketball player and coach (1928–2015)
- 1930Rudolf E. Kálmán — Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
- 1930Lorraine Hansberry — African-American playwright and author (1930-1965)
- 1932Elena Poniatowska — French-born Mexican journalist and author
- 1933Edward de Bono — Maltese physician and writer (1933–2021)
- 1934Ruskin Bond — Indian writer of British descent (born 1934)
Deaths · 60
- 804(Julian date)Alcuin — 8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher
- 988(Julian date)Dunstan — Archbishop of Canterbury and saint
- 1102(Julian date)Stephen — Count of Blois from 1089 to 1102
- 1125(Julian date)Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev (1053-1125)
- 1218(Julian date)Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 to 1218
- 1296(Julian date)Celestine V — 13th‑century Italian hermit and founder of the Celestines, Catholic saint, first pope to resign
- 1303Ivo of Kermartin — Breton priest and saint (1253-1303)
- 1319(Julian date)Louis of Evreux — French prince of the Capetian dynasty, son of Philip III and brother of Philip IV
- 1389(Julian date)Dmitry Donskoy — Prince of Moscow
- 1396(Julian date)John I of Aragon — King of Aragon
- 1536(Julian date)Anne Boleyn — second wife of Henry VIII of England (died 1536)
- 1623Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum — Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire Empress mother of the Mughal Empire (1543-1623)
- 1637Isaac Beeckman — Dutch philosopher and scientist
- 1777Button Gwinnett — American politician (1735-1777)
- 1795James Boswell — Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740–1795)
- 1795Josiah Bartlett — American physician and judge, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1729–1795)
- 1825Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon — French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)
- 1831Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz — Baltic German physician, naturalist and explorer (1793-1831)
- 1864Nathaniel Hawthorne — American author (1804–1864)
- 1865Sengge Rinchen — Chinese general (1811–1865)
- 1895José Martí — Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
- 1898William Ewart Gladstone — British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
- 1901Marthinus Wessel Pretorius — South African politician (1819–1901)
- 1904Jamsetji Tata — Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
- 1912Bolesław Prus — Polish novelist (1847–1912)
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