On this day: 19 October
Events, births and deaths on 19 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Louvre robbery
- Deaths · Daniel Naroditsky
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Giovanni Steffè
- Deaths · Phil Chess
100 years ago1926
- Births · Arne Bendiksen
- Deaths · Ludvig Karsten
- Births · Marjorie Tallchief
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 993 · Deaths · Conrad I of Burgundy
Events · 17
- 202 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Zama — final battle of the Second Punic War
- 1466(Julian date)Second Peace of Thorn (1466) — peace treaty
- 1596San Felipe incident (1596) — Spanish shipwreck in Japan with political consequences
- 1864Battle of Cedar Creek — battle of the American Civil War in northern Virginia, 19 October 1864
- 1864St. Albans Raid — 1864 Raid during the American Civil War
- 1914First Battle of Ypres — 1914 First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres
- 1921Bloody Night — name by which the radical revolt that took place in Lisbon
- 1956Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 — peace treaty
- 1965Siege of Plei Me — 1965 engagement of the Vietnam War
- 19861986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash — aviation accident
- 1987Black Monday — world stock market crash of Monday, October 19, 1987
- 1987Operation Nimble Archer — US Navy attack on two Iranian oil platforms in 1987
- 19881988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions — partial ban on radio and TV broadcast in the UK of voices of certain Republican and Loyalist figures
- 2004Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 — aviation accident
- 2012October 2012 Beirut bombing — bombing
- 2013Sidemen — British internet entertainer group
- 20252025 Louvre robbery — 2025 theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum
Births · 60
- 711(Julian date)Emperor Suzong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 1433(Julian date)Marsilio Ficino — Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
- 1582(Julian date)Dmitry of Uglich — Russian tsarevich (1582–1591)
- 1605Thomas Browne — English polymath and author (1605–1682)
- 1784Leigh Hunt — British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 1858George Albert Boulenger — Belgian-British zoologist (1858–1937), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino from 1900
- 1864Li Yuanhong — Chinese general and politician (1864-1928)
- 1882Umberto Boccioni — Italian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)
- 1895Lewis Mumford — American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
- 1899Miguel Ángel Asturias — Guatemalan writer and diplomat (1899–1974)
- 1909Marguerite Perey — French physicist (1909–1975)
- 1910Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — Indian-American astrophysicist
- 1913Vinícius de Moraes — Brazilian composer, singer, writer (1913–1980)
- 1914Juanita Moore — American actress (1914-2014)
- 1916Jean Dausset — French immunologist (1916-2009)
- 1916Emil Grigoryevich Gilels — Soviet pianist (1916-1985)
- 1918Russell Kirk — American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and writer (1918–1994)
- 1924Lubomír Štrougal — Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia; (1924–2023)
- 1925
- 1927Pierre Alechinsky — Belgian and French painter and engraver (born 1927)
- 1931John le Carré — British novelist and spy (1931–2020)
- 1931Manolo Escobar — Spanish singer and actor (1934-2013)
- 1934Yakubu Gowon — Nigerian politician and Military general
- 1940
- 1944Peter Tosh — Jamaican reggae singer and musician (1944–1987)
Deaths · 60
- 993(Julian date)Conrad I of Burgundy — king of Burgundy from 937
- 1216(Julian date)John, King of England — King of England from 1199 to 1216
- 1287(Julian date)Bohemond VII, Count of Tripoli — Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch (1261-1287)(r. 1275-1287)
- 1354(Julian date)Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada — ruler of Emirate of Granada from 1333 to 1354
- 1595Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel — English nobleman and Catholic saint (1557-1595)
- 1609Jacobus Arminius — Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism, champion of tolerance (1560-1609)
- 1678Samuel van Hoogstraten — painter and writer from the Northern Netherlands (1627-1678)
- 1682Thomas Browne — English polymath and author (1605–1682)
- 1723Godfrey Kneller — German-born British painter (1646–1723)
- 1745Jonathan Swift — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
- 1790Lyman Hall — American physician (1724-1790)
- 1813Józef Poniatowski — nephew of King of Poland Stanislaus II; Marshal of France (1763-1813)
- 1851Marie Thérèse of France — French Madame Royale (1778–1851)
- 1889Luís I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1861 to 1889
- 1897George Pullman — engineer and businessman from the United States (1831-1897)
- 1899Francis Guthrie — South African mathematician and botanist (1831-1899)
- 1911Eugene Burton Ely — American aviation pioneer (1886–1911)
- 1914Robert Hugh Benson — British writer and Catholic priest (1871–1914)
- 1916Ioannis Frangoudis — Greek sport shooter and army officer (1863–1916)
- 1918Harold Lockwood — American actor (1887–1918)
- 1926Ludvig Karsten — Norwegian artist (1876-1926)
- 1936Lu Xun — Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
- 1937Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
- 1943Camille Claudel — French sculptor (1864–1943)
- 1944Dénes Kőnig — Hungarian mathematician (1884-1944)
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