On this day: 19 June
Events, births and deaths on 19 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Anton Yelchin
100 years ago1926
- Births · Erna Schneider Hoover
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1027 · Deaths · Romuald
- 1052 · Deaths · Fan Zhongyan
Events · 19
- 1306(Julian date)Battle of Methven — 1306 fought by Robert the Bruce
- 17181718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake — 1718 Earthquake in China
- 1800Battle of Höchstädt — 1800 battle
- 1816Battle of Seven Oaks — 1816 battle of the Pemmican War
- 18381838 Jesuit slave sale — sale of slaves by the Jesuits in Maryland
- 1865Juneteenth — holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas on June 19, 1865
- 1934Federal Communications Commission — independent U.S. government agency
- 1936solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 — 20th-century total solar eclipse
- 1944Battle of the Philippine Sea — 1944 World War II Pacific naval battle
- 19451945 El Teniente mining accident — biggest metallic mining accident in history
- 1970Patent Cooperation Treaty — treaty
- 1978Garfield — comic strip created by Jim Davis
- 19871987 Hipercor bombing — car bomb attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA in 1987 at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona
- 1987Aeroflot Flight 528 — 1987 Yak-40 crash
- 1990Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic — republican level branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 20052005 United States Grand Prix — Formula One motor race
- 2009Operation Rah-e-Nijat — 2009 military operation
- 2009Operation Panther's Claw — British military operation of the Afghan War in Helmand Province
- 2010wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling — June 2010 wedding of Swedish heir apparent Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling
Births · 60
- 1566(Julian date)James VI and I — King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 (1566-1625)
- 1623Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
- 1764José Gervasio Artigas — Uruguayan military leader during the War for Independence
- 1783Friedrich Sertürner — German pharmacist (1783–1841)
- 1834Charles Spurgeon — British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834-1892)
- 1861José Rizal — Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
- 1861Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig — British senior officer during the First World War (1861-1928)
- 1865May Whitty — English actress (1865-1948)
- 1877Charles Coburn — American film, theater actor (1877–1961)
- 1896Wallis Simpson — American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor (1896-1986)
- 1897Cyril Norman Hinshelwood — English physical chemist (1897-1967)
- 1903Lou Gehrig — American baseball player (1903–1941)
- 1905Mildred Natwick — American actress (1905–1994)
- 1906Ernst Chain — Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
- 1909Osamu Dazai — Japanese author
- 1910Paul Flory — American chemist (1910-1985)
- 1917Joshua Nkomo — Zimbabwean politician (1917-1999)
- 1919Pauline Kael — American film critic (1919-2001)
- 1921Louis Jourdan — French actor (1921–2015)
- 1922Aage Bohr — Danish physicist (1922–2009)
- 1928Nancy Marchand — American actress (1928–2000)
- 1930Gena Rowlands — American actress (1930–2024)
- 1932Pier Angeli — actress (1932-1971)
- 1932Marisa Pavan — Italian actress (1932-2023)
- 1933Viktor Patsayev — Soviet cosmonaut (1933–1971)
Deaths · 60
- 626(Julian date)Soga no Umako — politician (551-626)
- 1027Romuald — founder of the Camaldolese order
- 1052Fan Zhongyan — Chinese poet, politician, philosopher and writer (989–1052)
- 1285(Julian date)Yekuno Amlak — Emperor of Ethiopia from 1270 to 1285; the founder of Solomonic dynasty
- 1312(Julian date)Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall — Favourite of King Edward II of England (1284-1312)
- 1542Leo Jud — Swiss reformer
- 1567(Julian date)Anna of Brandenburg — duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1606Sakakibara Yasumasa — daimyo
- 1608Alberico Gentili — Italian jurist (1552-1608)
- 1650Matthäus Merian — Swiss-born engraver, publisher (1593 – 1650)
- 1716Tokugawa Ietsugu — The seventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1709-1716)
- 1747Nader Shah — Shah of Iran (r. 1736–47) and founder of the Afsharid dynasty
- 1747Alessandro Marcello — Italian composer
- 1762Johann Ernst Eberlin — composer and organist of the late baroque era
- 1786Nathanael Greene — American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)
- 1805Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée — French painter (1725-1805)
- 1820Joseph Banks — English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
- 1844Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire — French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)
- 1865Evangelos Zappas — Greek philanthropist and businessman
- 1867Maximilian I of Mexico — emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
- 1867Miguel Miramón — Mexican politician (1832-1867)
- 1874Ferdinand Stoliczka — Czech traveller, geologist and paleontologist (1838–1874)
- 1884Juan Bautista Alberdi — Argentinian politician, lawyer and diplomat (1810–1884)
- 1902John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton — British politician and historian (1834–1902)
- 1902Albert I of Saxony — King of Saxony (1828–1902)
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