On this day: 19 July
Events, births and deaths on 19 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
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10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Garry Marshall
- Events · 2016 Taoyuan bus fire
100 years ago1926
- Births · Helen Gallagher
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 939 · Events · Battle of Simancas
- 998 · Deaths · Damianos Dalassenos
- 998 · Events · Battle of Apamea
Events · 31
- 64(Julian date)Great Fire of Rome — urban fire in Ancient Rome of July AD 64
- 711Battle of Guadalete — 711 battle between the Visigothic Kingdom and the Umayyad Caliphate; decisive Umayyad victory leads to the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom and the Umayyad conquest of the peninsula
- 939(Julian date)Battle of Simancas — battle
- 998(Julian date)Battle of Apamea — 998 Fatimid victory in the Arab–Byzantine wars
- 1333(Julian date)Battle of Halidon Hill — 1333 part of the Second War of Scottish Independence
- 1544Sieges of Boulogne — battle of the Italian War of 1542-1546
- 1701Nanfan Treaty — 1701 treaty between New York and the Iroquois Confederacy
- 1702Battle of Klissow — 1702 battle in the Great Northern War
- 1848Seneca Falls Convention — 1848 women's rights convention in New York
- 1863Battle of Buffington Island — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1870Franco-Prussian War — 1870–1871 military conflict of the Second French Empire versus Prussia and its allies
- 1900Paris Métro — rapid transport system of Paris, France
- 1916Battle of Fromelles — 1916 military operation on the Western Front during World War I
- 1936People's Olympiad — planned for Barcelona in 1936
- 1936July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona — 1936 military uprising in Barcelona
- 1940Battle of Cape Spada — 1940 naval battle during the battle of the Mediterranean in Second World War
- 19401940 Field Marshal Ceremony — Nazi German promotion ceremony
- 1943Bombing of Rome in World War II — strategic bombing operations against Rome, Italy in 1943 and 1944
- 19521952 Summer Olympics — Games of the XV Olympiad, in Helsinki, Finland
- 19521952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident — UFO incident in the United States
- 1961Bizerte crisis — 1961 conflict between France and Tunisia
- 1967Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 — mid-air collision
- 1972Battle of Mirbat — 1972 battle of the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman
- 19801980 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXII Olympiad, in Moscow, USSR
- 1985Val di Stava dam collapse — Italian infrastructure tragedy
- 1989United Airlines Flight 232 — aviation accident on 19 July 1989
- 1992massacre of Via D'Amelio — Mafia Bomb attack in Palermo, Italy
- 1994Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 — unsolved airliner explosion thought to have been an intentional act of terrorism
- 2012Rojava Revolution — social, political, military and ethnocultural change in power in northeast Syria supported mainly by the Kurds
- 2013The Day the Earth Smiled — July 2013 event
- 20162016 Taoyuan bus fire — bus fire in Taoyuan, Taiwan
Births · 60
- 1223Baibars — 4th Sultan of Egypt from 1260 to 1277
- 1688Giuseppe Castiglione — Italian monk, missionary and painter (1688-1766)
- 1789John Martin — English painter, engraver and illustrator (1789–1854)
- 1800Juan José Flores — president of Ecuador (1800–1864)
- 1819Gottfried Keller — Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819–1890)
- 1822Princess Augusta of Cambridge — Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1827Mangal Pandey — India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)
- 1834Edgar Degas — French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
- 1846Edward Charles Pickering — American astronomer (1846–1919)
- 1860Lizzie Borden — American murder suspect (1860–1927)
- 1868Florence Foster Jenkins — American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability (1868–1944)
- 1883Max Fleischer — American animator, inventor, film director and producer (1883-1972)
- 1884Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1900 to 1918, British prince and royal duke, Nazi politician (1884–1954)
- 1890George II of Greece — King of Greece (r. 1922-1924, 1935-1947)
- 1893Vladimir Mayakovsky — Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
- 1894Khawaja Nazimuddin — Pakistani politician and statesman (1894–1964)
- 1896A. J. Cronin — Scottish novelist (1896–1981)
- 1898Herbert Marcuse — German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
- 1921Rosalyn Sussman Yalow — American medical physicist (1921-2011)
- 1922George McGovern — American historian and politician (1922–2012)
- 1924Pat Hingle — American actor (1924–2009)
- 1929
- 1929Gaston Glock — Austrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock (1929–2023)
- 1934Francisco de Sá Carneiro — Portuguese politician (1934–1980)
- 1938Jayant Narlikar — Indian astrophysicist and writer (1938–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 514(Julian date)Symmachus — Pope from 498 to 514
- 1234(Julian date)Floris IV, Count of Holland — Count of Holland from 1222 to 1234
- 1249(Julian date)Jacopo Tiepolo — 43rd Doge of Venice
- 1374(Julian date)Petrarch — Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
- 1415(Julian date)Philippa of Lancaster — English noblewoman and Portuguese queen consort
- 1543(Julian date)Mary Boleyn — sister of the queen of England Anne Boleyn
- 1810Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Queen consort of Prussia (1776–1810)
- 1814Matthew Flinders — English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
- 1824Agustín I of Mexico — first constitutional emperor of Mexico (1783-1824)
- 1838Pierre Louis Dulong — French scientist (1785-1838)
- 1850Margaret Fuller — American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
- 1855Konstantin Batyushkov — Russian poet, essayist and translator
- 1857Stefano Franscini — Swiss statistician and politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1796-1857)
- 1868Okita Sōji — Japanese swordsman
- 1878Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev — Russian mathematician (1847-1878)
- 1906Walter Lawry Buller — New Zealand lawyer, magistrate, naturalist, ornithologist (1838–1906)
- 1933Kaarle Krohn — Finnish folklorist (1863–1933)
- 1943Yekaterina Budanova — Soviet fighter pilot (1916-1943)
- 1947Aung San — Burmese revolutionary leader (1915-1947)
- 1947Lyuh Woon-hyung — Korean politician (1886–1947)
- 1965Syngman Rhee — President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
- 1969Stratis Myrivilis — Greek writer (1892–1969)
- 1975Lefty Frizzell — American country singer-songwriter (1928–1975)
- 1977Karl Ristikivi — Estonian writer (1912-1977)
- 1980Hans Morgenthau — American political scientist (1904–1980)
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