November 19

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 42 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.^[1]
• Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq
  .
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).^[2]

1601–1900

• 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
• Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize
  ).
• 1808 – Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.^[3][4]
• Warsaw University is established.^[5]
• 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
• 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.^[6]
• 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

1901–present

• 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
• Stalingrad
  , turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
• 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
• Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv
  ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
• 1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
• 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
• 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
• 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
• Prime Minister of Greece
  .
• Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III
  .
• 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
• 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
• 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
• 1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
• US Embassy in Tehran
  .
• 1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
• 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• 1985 – Police in
  Baling, Malaysia, lay siege
  to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
• Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia
  and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
• 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
• 1996 – A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.^[7]
• 1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• Shenzhou spacecraft
  .
• 1999 – John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?^[8]
• Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m³ (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster
  in Spanish and Portuguese history.
• worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.^[9]
• 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.^[10]
• 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.^[11]
• 2022 – A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[12]

Births

Pre-1600

• 1417 – Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (d. 1480)
• 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
• 1503 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547)^[13]
• 1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (d. 1626)^[14]
• 1600 – Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1649)^[15]
• 1600 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)

1601–1900

• 1617 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655)
• 1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
• 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
• 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
• 1722 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
• 1752 – George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
• 1765 – Filippo Castagna, Maltese politician (d. 1830)^[16]
• 1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic (d. 1844)
• 1802 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
• 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
• 1808 – Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881)
• 1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (d. 1885)
• 1828 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
• 1831 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
• 1833 – Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911)
• 1834 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
• 1843 – Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896)
• 1843 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
• 1859 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
• 1873 – Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand (d. 1935)
• 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946)^[17]
• 1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
• 1877 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
• 1883 – Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
• 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1888 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian (d. 1942)
• 1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966)^[18]
• 1892 – Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949)
• 1892 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970)^[19]
• 1893 – René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
• 1894 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
• 1895 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
• 1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Anna Seghers, German author and politician (d. 1983)^[20]

1901–present

• 1901 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961)^[21]
• Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr.
  , American murderer (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Eleanor Audley, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
• SS
  officer (d. 1945)
• 1907 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)^[22]
• 1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005).
• 1909 – Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (d. 1980).^[23]
• 1910 – Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970)
• 1912 – Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015)
• 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)
• Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)^[24]
• 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)^[25]
• 1919 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (d. 2016)
• 1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991)^[26]
• 1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)^[26]
• 1921 – Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
• Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
  , American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)^[27]
• 1924 – William Russell, English actor
• 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic (d. 2017)
• 1925 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (d. 2017)
• United States Ambassador to the United Nations
  (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (d. 2021)^[28][29]
• 1933 – Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
• 1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer and scout
• 1934 – Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
• 1934 – David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor (d. 2022)
• 1935 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (d. 1990)
• 1935 – Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author (d. 2020)^[26]
• 1936 – Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host^[30]
• 1936 – Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Penelope Leach, English psychologist and author
• 1938 – Len Killeen, South African rugby league player (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Frank Misson, Australian cricketer
• 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System^[30]
• 1939 – Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania
• 1939 – Tom Harkin, American lawyer and politician
• 1939 – Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic
• 1939 – Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
• 1939 – Richard Zare, American chemist and academic
• 1940 – Gary Gruber, author and expert on test-prep (d. 2019)
• 1941 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)^[31]
• 1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (d. 2016)^[26]
• 1941 – Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• 1942 – Roland Clift, English engineer and academic^[32]
• 1942 – Larry Gilbert, American golfer (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.^[30]
• 1942 – Sharon Olds, American poet and academic^[33]
• 1943 – Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator
• 1943 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990)
• 1944 – Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress^[34]
• 1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager
• 1947 – Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
• 1947 –
  Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1947 –
  Lamar S. Smith
  , American lawyer and politician
• 1949 – Raymond Blanc, French chef and author
• 1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster^[30]
• 1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
• Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor^[30]
• 1953 – Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1954 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt
• 1954 – Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1954 – Kathleen Quinlan, American actress^[30]
• 1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer
• 1956 – Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut^[26]
• 1956 – Ann Curry, Guamanian-American journalist^[30]
• 1956 – Glynnis O'Connor, American actress^[26]
• 1956 – Sergiy Vilkomir, Ukrainian-born computer scientist (d. 2020)
• 1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
• 1957 – Tom Virtue, American actor
• 1958 – Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (d. 2007)
• 1958 – Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1958 – Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
• 1958 – Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic
• 1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter^[26]
• 1958 – Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist
• Robert Barron
  , American bishop, author, and theologian
• 1959 – Jo Bonner, American politician
• 1959 – Allison Janney, American actress^[30]
• 1960 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer^[30]
• 1961 – Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress and producer^[30]
• 1961 – Pernille Svarre, Danish athlete^[35]
• 1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer^[36]
• 1962 –
  Governor of Alaska
• 1962 – Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and trainer
• 1963 – Terry Farrell, American actress^[30]
• 1963 – Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player
• 1964 – Fred Diamond, American-English mathematician and academic
• 1964 – Vincent Herring, American saxophonist and flute player
• 1964 –
  Phil Hughes
  , Irish footballer and coach
• 1964 – Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor
• 1964 – Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 – Nicholas Patrick, English-American engineer and astronaut
• 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager
• 1965 – Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
• 1965 – Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer and academic
• 1965 – Paul Weitz, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright
• 1966 – Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
• 1966 – Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
• 1966 – Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author
• 1966 – Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager
• 1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
• 1967 – Yaroslav Blanter, Russian physicist
• 1967 – Randi Kaye, American journalist
• 1969 – Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
• 1969 – Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter^[30]
• 1969 – Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish footballer and coach
• 1969 – Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1971 – Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, American author and activist^[37]
• 1971 – Justin Chancellor, English bass player
• 1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
• 1971 – Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Tony Rich, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician^[30]
• 1971 – Dmitri Yushkevich, Russian ice hockey player^[38]
• 1972 – Sandrine Holt, English-American model and actress
• 1973 – Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[30]
• 1973 – Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer^[30]
• 1975 – Toby Bailey, American basketball player and agent
• 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994
• 1976 – Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter^[26]
• 1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1977 – Reid Scott, American actor^[30]
• 1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast and runner
• 1978 – Dries Buytaert, Belgian computer programmer
• 1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
• 1978 – Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter
• 1979 – Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower
• 1979 – John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
• 1979 – Ryan Howard, American baseball player
• 1979 – Barry Jenkins, American director, screenwriter, and producer^[30]
• 1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player
• 1979 – Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager
• 1980 – Courtney Anderson, American football player
• 1980 – Otis Grigsby, American football player
• 1980 – Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player
• 1981 – Marcus Banks, American basketball player
• 1981 – Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player
• 1981 – André Lotterer, German race car driver
• 1981 –
  DJ Tukutz
  , South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter
• 1981 – Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1982 – Jonathan Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player^[39]
• 1983 – Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
• 1983 – Adam Driver, American actor^[30]
• 1983 – Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model
• 1984 – Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Brittany Maynard, American activist (d. 2014)
• 1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
• 1985 – Alex Mack, American football player
• 1986 – Sam Betty, English rugby player
• 1986 – Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1986 – Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player
• 1986 – Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
• 1986 – Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
• 1987 – Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player
• 1988 – Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
• 1989 – Kenneth Faried, American basketball player^[40]
• 1989 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1989 –
  Roman Sergeevich Trofimov
  , Russian ski jumper
• 1989 – Tyga, American rapper^[30]
• 1990 – Marquise Goodwin, American football player
• 1990 – Josh Lambo, American football and soccer player^[41]
• 1990 – John Moore, American ice hockey player
• 1990 – Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
• 1991 – Fabien Antunes, French footballer
• 1991 – Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player
• Cameron Bancroft
  , Australian cricketer
• 1992 – James Tarkowski, English footballer^[42]
• 1993 – Justin Anderson, American basketball player^[43]
• 1993 – Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
• 1993 – Joey Gallo, American baseball player^[44]
• 1993 – Suso, Spanish footballer
• 1994 – Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
• 1995 – Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model^[45]
• 1996 – Fred Warner, American football player^[46]
• 1997 – Zach Collins, American basketball player^[47]
• 1997 – Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler^[48]
• 1999 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater^[49]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 496 – Pope Gelasius I
• 498 – Pope Anastasius II
• 930 – Yan Keqiu, Chinese chief strategist
• Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia
  (b. c. 990)
• 1092 – Malik-Shah I, Seljuk Sultan (b. 1055)
• 1288 – Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1230)
• 1298 – Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
• 1350 – Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu^[50] (b. 1315)
• 1481 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
• 1557 – Bona Sforza, Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)
• 1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyō (b. 1508)
• 1581 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)

1601–1900

• 1630 – Johann Hermann Schein, German singer and composer (b. 1586)
• 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar and author (b. 1576)
• 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594)
• 1672 – John Wilkins, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1614)
• 1679 – Roger Conant, Massachusetts governor (b. 1592)
• 1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
• 1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
• Antoine Nompar de Caumont
  , French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
• 1772 – William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
• 1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
• 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1720)
• 1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
• 1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1727)
• 1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
• 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)
• 1831 – Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (b. 1782)^[51]
• 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
• 1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
• 1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
• 1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
• 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)

1901–present

• 1910 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
• 1915 – Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)
• President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  (b. 1838)
• 1924 – Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1928 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (b. 1864)
• 1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897)
• 1938 – Lev Shestov, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
• 1943 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
• 1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
• 1950 – Aage Redal, Danish actor (b. 1891)
• Walter Bartley Wilson
  , English footballer and manager (b. 1870)
• 1955 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (b. 1891)
• 1956 – Francis L. Sullivan, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Carmen Boni, Italian-French actress (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Charles J. Watters, American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
• 1968 – May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (b. 1895)^[52]
• 1970 – Lewis Sargent, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899)^[53]
• 1974 – George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Rudolf Kinau, Low German writer (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), English novelist, (b. 1912)
• 1976 – Basil Spence, Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
• 1988 – Peggy Parish, American author (b. 1927)
• 1989 – Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1939)
• 2004 – George Canseco, Filipino journalist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor and academic (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor and director (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Steve Belichick, American football player, coach and scout (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Johnny Delgado, Filipino actor (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
• Ömer Lütfi Akad
  , Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2011 – John Neville, English actor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Ruth Stone, American poet and author (b. 1915)
• 2012 – John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Shiro Miya, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 –
  Boris Strugatskiy
  , Russian author (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Babe Birrer, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)^[54]
• 2013 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Roy Bhaskar, English philosopher and academic (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Jeremiah Coffey, Irish-Australian bishop (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Pete Harman, American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (b. 1953)
• 2015 – Mal Whitfield, American runner and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 2017 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968)
• 2017 – Della Reese, American singer and actress (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
• 2022 – Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (b. 1973)^[55]
• 2023 – Rosalynn Carter, American mental health activist, First Lady of the United States (1977–1981), and of Georgia (1971–1975) (b. 1927)^[56]
• 2023 – Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and publisher (b. 1935)^[57]

Holidays and observances

• Christian
  feast day
  :
  • Eastern Catholic Church
    )
  • Raphael Kalinowski
  • Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
  • November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico
  )
• Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belarus)
• Flag Day (Brazil)
• Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
• International Men's Day^[58]
• Liberation Day (Mali)
• Martyrs' Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)
• The Sovereign Prince's Day (Monaco)
• Women's Entrepreneurship Day
• World Toilet Day

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to November 19.

• "On This Day". BBC.
• The New York Times: On This Day
• "Historical Events on November 19". OnThisDay.com.