November 19
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Art and culture
- 1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
Births
- 1919 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
Deaths
- 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
- 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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