On this day: 19 November
Events, births and deaths on 19 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Births · Pino Rauti
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1092 · Deaths · Malik-Shah I
- 1034 · Deaths · Theodoric II
Events · 23
- 1794Jay's Treaty — 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain
- 1816University of Warsaw — largest university in Poland
- 1863Gettysburg Address — speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
- 19311931 Jinan air crash — 19 November 1931 air crash in Jinan, Shandong, China
- 19331933 Spanish general election — elections to Spain's legislature in 1933
- 1941Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran — 1941 naval battle during World War II
- 1942Operation Uranus — 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II
- 1967TVB — television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong
- 1977TAP Portugal Flight 425 — aviation accident
- 1977Zhongli incident — 1977 protest in Taiwan
- 1980Korean Air Lines Flight 015 — 1980 aviation accident
- 19821982 Asian Games — ninth edition of the Asian Games
- 1984San Juanico disaster — 1984 industrial disaster in Mexico
- 1985Memali Incident — 1985 police siege of Islamic sect in Malaysia
- 1996United Express Flight 5925 — 1996 aircraft accident in Illinois, United States
- 2002Prestige oil spill — oil spill in Spain
- 2004Pacers–Pistons brawl — 2004 altercation at an NBA game involving players and fans
- 2005Haditha massacre — incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of US Marines
- 2010Pike River Mine disaster — Mining accident in New Zealand in November 2010
- 20132013 Iranian embassy bombing — double suicide bombing that occurred in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon
- 20222022 Malaysian general election — 15th election of the Dewan Rakyat of the Parliament of Malaysia
- 2022Colorado Springs nightclub shooting — shooting at an LGBTQ bar on November 19–20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 20232023 Cricket World Cup final — cricket World Cup final
Births · 60
- 1600(Julian date)Charles I of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649 (1600-1649)
- 1711Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath (1711-1765)
- 1770Bertel Thorvaldsen — Danish sculptor (1770–1844)
- 1805Ferdinand de Lesseps — French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)
- 1831James A. Garfield — president of the United States in 1881
- 1833Wilhelm Dilthey — German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
- 1843Richard Avenarius — German philosopher (1843-1896)
- 1876Tatyana Afanasyeva — Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876-1964)
- 1887James Batcheller Sumner — American chemist (1887-1955)
- 1888José Raúl Capablanca — Cuban chess player (1888-1942)
- 1889Clifton Webb — American actor, singer and dancer (1889–1966)
- 1900Anna Seghers — German writer (1900–1983)
- 1905Tommy Dorsey — American big band leader and musician
- 1907Run Run Shaw — Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)
- 1909Peter Drucker — American business consultant (1909–2005)
- 1912George Emil Palade — Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
- 1915Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. — American pharmacologist (1915–1974)
- 1917Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)
- 1919Alan Young — British actor (1919–2016)
- 1919Gillo Pontecorvo — Italian film director (1919–2006)
- 1920Gene Tierney — American actress (1920–1991)
- 1922Yuri Knorozov — Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
- 1924Muteesa II of Buganda — Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1939 to 1969 and the first President of Uganda in 1962
- 1925Zygmunt Bauman — Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)
- 1926Jeane Kirkpatrick — American diplomat and Presidential advisor (1926-2006)
Deaths · 60
- 496(Julian date)Gelasius I — Bishop of Rome from 492 to 496
- 498(Julian date)Anastasius II — pope
- 1034(Julian date)Theodoric II — Margrave of Lower Lusatia
- 1092(Julian date)Malik-Shah I — During his rule as the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, Sultan Malik-Shah I played a crucial role in the history of medieval Islam.
- 1148Wuzhu — Jurchen prince and general
- 1288(Julian date)Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden — Margrave of Baden (1230–1288)
- 1481Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk — English noblewoman (1472–1481)
- 1557(Julian date)Bona Sforza — Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania
- 1581(Julian date)Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia — 16th century Russian tsarevich
- 1649Caspar Schoppe — German scholar (1576-1649)
- 1665Nicolas Poussin — French painter (1594-1665)
- 1672John Wilkins — Secretary of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester
- 1692Thomas Shadwell — English poet and playwright (1642-1692)
- 1703man in the Iron Mask — 17th century prisoner, among the most famous in French history
- 1798Wolfe Tone — Irish politician (1763-1798)
- 1804Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Italian opera composer (1728–1804)
- 1828Franz Schubert — Austrian composer (1797–1828)
- 1850Richard Mentor Johnson — vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
- 1883Carl Wilhelm Siemens — engineer and inventor (1823–1883)
- 1887Emma Lazarus — American poet (1849–1887)
- 1910Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig — German chemist (1835–1910)
- 1915Joe Hill — Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
- 1918Joseph F. Smith — President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1838-1918)
- 1924Thomas H. Ince — American film producer (1882–1924)
- 1931Xu Zhimo — Chinese poet (1897-1931)
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