October 19
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Contents |
Art and culture
Births
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)*1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
- 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
- 1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
Deaths
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
- 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
- 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
Notes
- 1927 - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian artist
- 1909 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist (b. 1835)
- 1920 - Harry Alan Towers, British film producer
- 1945 - Sharon Redd, American singer (d. 1992)
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer and diplomat. (d. 1974)
- 1950 - Patrick Cowley, American music producer (d. 1982 )
- 1931 - John le Carré, English writer
- 1882 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
- 1862 - Auguste and Louis Lumière Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) (d. 1988)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "October 19" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.