November 19
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Art and culture
- 1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
Births
- 1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
- 1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
- 1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
- 1600 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
- 1617 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
- 1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
- 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
- 1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1722 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
- 1752 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
- 1802 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
- 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
- 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
- 1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)
- 1834 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
- 1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
- 1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
- 1862 - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
- 1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
- 1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
- 1883 - Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
- 1887 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1888 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
- 1889 - Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
- 1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
- 1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
- 1897 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
- 1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
- 1899 - Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
- 1900 - Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- 1900 - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
- 1907 - Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
- 1909 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
- 1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
- 1912 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1915 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1919 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)
- 1919 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1921 - Roy Campanella, baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1921 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
- 1922 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
- 1924 - William Russell, British actor
- 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
- 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
- 1929 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Larry King, American TV personality
- 1933 - Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
- 1935 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
- 1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman
- 1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host
- 1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman
- 1939 - Tom Harkin, American politician
- 1941 - Dan Haggerty, American actor
- 1941 - Tommy Thompson, U.S. Governor
- 1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- 1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet
- 1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1943 - Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1944 - Dennis Hull, National Hockey League player
- 1944 - Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
- 1945 - Bobby Tolan, former baseball player
- 1947 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
- 1947 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- 1949 - Nigel Bennett, English actor
- 1949 - Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
- 1951 - Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
- 1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
- 1953 - Robert Beltran, American actor
- 1953 - Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
- 1956 - Ann Curry, American journalist
- 1956 - Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
- 1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
- 1958 - Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
- 1958 - Terrence Carson, American actor
- 1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
- 1960 - Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestling manager (d. 2003)
- 1960 - Matt Sorum, American musician Velvet Revolver
- 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
- 1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress
- 1963 - Jon Potter, British field hockey player
- 1963 - Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
- 1965 - Laurent Blanc, French footballer
- 1965 - Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
- 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
- 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, American actor
- 1966 - Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
- 1968 - Karina, Venezuelan singer
- 1969 - Erika Alexander, American actress
- 1969 - Philippe Adams, Belgian racing driver
- 1970 - Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
- 1971 - Alice Peacock, American folk singer
- 1971 - Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
- 1972 - Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
- 1973 - Ryukishi07, Japan mystery novelist
- 1973 - Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
- 1973 - Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
- 1975 - Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
- 1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976 - Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
- 1976 - Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer
- 1977 - Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- 1978 - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
- 1978 - Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
- 1979 - Ryan Howard, American baseball player
- 1979 - Larry Johnson, American football player
- 1979 - Leam Richardson, English footballer
- 1979 - Rowan Jones, Australian rules footballer
- 1983 - Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
- 1985 - Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1985 - Laura Osnes, American Broadway star
- 1988 - Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
- 1990 - James Chichester, Earl of Belfast, Irish Peer
- 1997 - McCaughey septuplets, world's first surviving set of septuplets
Deaths
- 498 - Pope Anastasius II
- 1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
- 1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
- 1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
- 1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
- 1630 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
- 1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
- 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
- 1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
- 1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
- 1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
- 1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
- 1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
- 1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
- 1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
- 1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
- 1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
- 1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
- 1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
- 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
- 1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
- 1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
- 1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- 1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
- 1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)
- 1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
- 1931 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
- 1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
- 1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
- 1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
- 1960 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- 1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
- 1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
- 1983 - Tom Evans, British musician and member of Badfinger (b. 1947)
- 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
- 1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)
- 1990 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
- 1992 - Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
- 1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
- 2001 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
- 2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
- 2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
- 2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
Notes
- James Ensor
- Leopold and Loeb
- Nicolas Poussin
- Bruno Schulz
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Gene Tierney
- Franz Schubert
- Zeena Schreck
- Bertel Thorvaldsen
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