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July 19
is the 200th day of the year (201st in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 64
? The Great Fire of
Rome
starts.
- 484
?
Leontius
, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern
Emperor
at
Tarsus
in modern-day
Turkey
.
- 711
?
Ummayad
conquest of
Hispania
:
Battle of Guadalete
- Ummayad forces under
Tariq ibn Ziyad
defeat the
Visigoths
led by King
Roderic
.
- 1333
?
Wars of Scottish Independence
: The
Battle of Halidon Hill
ends in an English victory.
- 1545
? The
Tudor
battleship
Mary Rose
sinks.
- 1553
? In
England
,
Lady Jane Grey
is replaced as queen by
Mary I of England
, having been queen for only a few days.
- 1572
?
Wanli Emperor
takes control in
China
, becoming the 13th
Emperor
of the
Ming Dynasty
.
- 1588
?
Anglo-Spanish War
:
Battle of Gravelines
- The
Spanish Armada
is seen in the
English Channel
.
- 1692
? In the
Salem Witch Trials
, five women are hanged for witchcraft.
- 1701
? Representatives of the
Iroquois
Confederacy sign the
Nanfan Treaty
, ceding large
territory
north of the
Ohio River
to
England
.
- 1702
?
Great Northern War
: A larger
Polish
-
Saxon
Army
of
Augustus III the Strong
, operating from a better defensive position, is defeated by a
Swedish
Army
half its size under the command of
Charles XII of Sweden
, in the
Battle of Klissow
.
- 1821
?
George IV of the United Kingdom
is crowned king.
- 1832
? The
British Medical Association
is founded by
Charles Hastings
.
- 1843
?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
's
steamship
, the
SS
Great Britain
is launched.
- 1848
? A
Women's rights
convention begins in
Seneca Falls, New York
.
- 1864
?
Taiping Rebellion
:
Third Battle of Nanking
-
Qing Dynasty
defeats the
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
.
- 1870
?
Franco-Prussian War
:
France
declares war on
Prussia
.
- 1900
? The first line of the
Paris
Metro
opens.
- 1903
?
Maurice Garin
wins the first
Tour de France
.
- 1908
? The Dutch football club
Feyenoord
of
Rotterdam
is founded.
- 1912
? A
meteorite
estimated to weigh 190 kilograms explodes over
Holbrook, Arizona
, causing around 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the village.
- 1916
?
World War I
:
Battle of Fromelles
- British and Australian troops attack German
trenches
.
- 1920
?
Antonio Joaquim Granjo
becomes
Prime Minister
of
Portugal
.
- 1936
? The
Sieges
of
Oviedo
and
Gijon
begin shortly after the start of the
Spanish Civil War
.
- 1941
?
British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
launches the
V for Victory
campaign.
- 1943
?
World War II
:
Rome
is heavily
bombed
by more than 500
Allied
aircraft
.
- 1947
? Several leading Burmese politicians, including Bogyoko
Aung San
, are executed by Galon
U Saw
.
- 1950
?
West Germany
and the
Saarland
join the
European Council
.
- 1952
? The
Summer Olympics
in
Helsinki
begin.
- 1961
?
Tunisia
imposes a blockade on the French naval base at
Bizerte
.
- 1965
? The
Mont Blanc
road
tunnel
is opened.
- 1971
? The South Tower of the
World Trade Center
in
New York City
opens.
- 1976
? The
Sagarmatha National Park
in
Nepal
is created.
- 1979
? The
Sandinistas
take official control of the government in
Nicaragua
.
- 1979
? Two
oil
tankers collide near
Trinidad and Tobago
, causing an oil spill, and killing 29 seamen in the
fire
resulting from the collision.
- 1980
? The
Summer Olympics
in
Moscow
begin. Some Western countries, including the
United States
and
West Germany
, boycott the event.
- 1981
? French President
Francois Mitterrand
privately reveals to US President
Ronald Reagan
documents showing the
Soviets
had been stealing American technological research and development.
- 1985
? The Val di Stava
dam
collapses in
Italy
, killing 268 people.
- 1987
? In
Portugal
, the Social Democrats under
Anibal Cavaco Silva
become the first political party during the Third
Republic
to form an overall majority in
parliament
.
- 1989
? A
United Airlines
airplane crashes in
Sioux City
,
Iowa
, and bursts into flames, killing 112 out of the 296 people on board.
- 1992
? Anti-
Mafia
judge
Paolo Borsellino
and two police officers are killed by a car-bomb attack in
Palermo
,
Sicily
.
- 1996
? Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic
is forced out of office. Wanted on
war crimes
charges, he goes into hiding until his arrest in
2008
.
- 1996
? The
1996 Summer Olympics
in
Atlanta
begin, with
Muhammad Ali
lighting the Olympic flame.
- 1997
? The Provisional
IRA
resumes a ceasefire during the
Northern Ireland
Troubles.
- 2002
? In
Scotland
, the
Loch Lomond
and the
Trossachs
National Park is created.
- 2003
? The first successful
tongue
transplant is carried out in
Vienna
.
- 2007
?
Pratibha Patil
becomes the first woman to be chosen to become
President of India
.
- 2018
?
Israel
's
Knesset
passes a law defining the country as a
Jewish
Nation
State.
- 2018
? A duck
boat
capsizes on
Table Rock Lake
in Southwestern
Missouri
,
United States
, killing 17 people (out of 31 on board), including 9 from the same family.
- 2019
?
Iran
seizes two British
oil
tankers in the
Strait of Hormuz
.
- 1670
?
Richard Leveridge
, English bass and composer (d.
1758
)
- 1688
?
Giuseppe Castiglione
, Italian missionary to China (d.
1766
)
- 1698
?
Johann Jakob Bodmer
, Swiss writer and poet (d.
1783
)
- 1739
?
Joseph Stanton, Jr.
, American politician (d.
1807
)
- 1744
?
Heinrich Christian Boie
, German poet (d.
1806
)
- 1759
?
Seraphim of Sarov
, Russian Orthodox Saint (d.
1833
)
- 1764
?
Juan Jose Castelli
, Argentine politician (d.
1812
)
- 1789
?
John Martin
, English painter (d.
1854
)
- 1800
?
Juan Jose Flores
, first
President of Ecuador
(d.
1864
)
- 1806
?
Alexander Dallas Bache
, American
physicist
(d.
1867
)
- 1814
?
Samuel Colt
, American firearms inventor (d.
1862
)
- 1819
?
Gottfried Keller
, Swiss writer (d.
1890
)
- 1822
?
Princess Augusta of Cambridge
(d.
1916
)
- 1827
?
Mangal Pandey
, Indian soldier (d.
1857
)
- 1834
?
Edgar Degas
, French painter (d.
1917
)
- 1840
?
Jose Manuel Balmaceda
,
President of Chile
(d.
1891
)
- 1842
?
Frederick T. Greenhalge
, English-American
lawyer
and
politician
, 38th
Governor of Massachusetts
(d.
1896
)
- 1848
?
Pedro Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil
(d.
1850
)
- 1860
?
Lizzie Borden
, American accused murderess (d.
1927
)
- 1863
?
Hermann Bahr
, Austrian writer and
dramatist
(d.
1934
)
- 1865
?
Charles Horace Mayo
, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d.
1939
)
- 1876
?
Joseph Fielding Smith
, 10th president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(d.
1972
)
- 1876
?
Ignaz Seipel
, Austrian politician (d.
1952
)
- 1877
?
Arthur Fielder
, English
cricketer
(d.
1949
)
- 1881
?
Friedrich Dessauer
, German
philosopher
and
physicist
(d.
1963
)
- 1883
?
Max Fleischer
, Austrian animator and movie producer (d.
1972
)
- 1884
?
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(d.
1954
)
- 1886
?
Michael Fekete
, Hungarian-Israeli
mathematician
(d.
1957
)
- 1890
? King
George II
of
Greece
(d.
1947
)
- 1892
?
Dick Irvin
, Canadian
ice hockey
player and
coach
(d.
1957
)
- 1893
?
Vladimir Mayakovsky
, Russian poet (d.
1930
)
- 1894
?
Khawaja Nazimuddin
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Pakistan
(d.
1965
)
- 1894
?
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
1959
)
- 1895
?
Xu Beihong
, Chinese painter (d.
1953
)
- 1896
?
A. J. Cronin
, Scottish writer (d.
1981
)
- 1898
?
Herbert Marcuse
, German-born
philosopher
(d.
1979
)
- 1904
?
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith
, American lawyer (d.
1985
)
- 1914
?
Marius Russo
, baseball player (d.
2005
)
- 1917
?
William Scranton
, American politician and diplomat, 38th
Governor
of
Pennsylvania
(d.
2013
)
- 1920
?
Robert Mann
, American
violinist
,
composer
and
conductor
(d.
2018
)
- 1920
?
Aldo Protti
, Italian
opera
singer (d.
1995
)
- 1921
?
Andre Moynet
, French fighter pilot, businessman, politician and racing driver (d.
1993
)
- 1921
?
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
, American
physicist
,
Nobel laureate
(d.
2011
)
- 1921
?
Harold Camping
, American evangelist and religious broadcaster, predicted the
rapture
(d.
2013
)
- 1922
?
Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan
, 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (
King
) of
Malaysia
(d.
2008
)
- 1922
?
George McGovern
, American
politician
(d.
2012
)
- 1923
?
Lon Simmons
, American sportscaster (d.
2015
)
- 1923
?
Joseph Hansen
, American writer (d.
2004
)
- 1923
?
Alex Hannum
, American
basketball
player (d.
2002
)
- 1924
?
Stanley K. Hathaway
, American politician (d.
2005
)
- 1924
?
Pat Hingle
, American actor (d.
2009
)
- 1924
?
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
, American
director
,
producer
and
writer
(d.
2014
)
- 1925
?
Otto Arosemena
,
President
of
Ecuador
(d.
1984
)
- 1926
?
Helen Gallagher
, American actress,
Ryan's Hope
- 1928
?
Bobby Davidson
, Scottish football referee (d.
1993
)
- 1929
?
Martin Gruner
, German politician (d.
2018
)
- 1932
?
Erro
,
Icelandic
artist
- 1934
?
Francisco de Sa Carneiro
,
Prime Minister
of
Portugal
(d.
1980
)
- 1935
?
Vasily Livanov
, Russian
movie
actor
and
screenwriter
- 1935
?
Nick Koback
, American
baseball
player (d.
2015
)
- 1935
?
Gerd Albrecht
, German
conductor
(d.
2014
)
- 1937
?
George Hamilton IV
, American
country music
singer
(d.
2014
)
- 1938
?
Vakhtang Kikabidze
,
Georgian
movie
actor
,
director
and
singer
- 1938
?
Richard Jordan
, American actor (d.
1993
)
- 1941
?
Vikki Carr
, American singer
- 1943
?
Thomas J. Sargent
, American
economist
- 1945
?
George Dzundza
, American actor
- 1945
?
Paule Baillargeon
, Canadian
actress
,
director
and
screenwriter
- 1945
?
Richard Henderson
, Scottish molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize for Chemistry
laureate
- 1946
?
Alan Gorrie
, Scottish musician (
Average White Band
)
- 1946
?
Ilie N?stase
, Romanian
tennis
player
- 1947
?
Bernie Leadon
, American musician (
The Eagles
)
- 1947
?
Brian May
, English guitarist (
Queen
)
- 1947
?
Hans-Jurgen Kreische
, East German footballer
- 1948
?
Atilio Ancheta
,
Uruguayan
footballer
- 1948
?
Keith Godchaux
, American musician (
Grateful Dead
) (d.
1980
)
- 1949
?
Kgalema Motlanthe
, former
President of South Africa
- 1950
?
Per-Kristian Foss
, Norwegian Minister of Finance
- 1950
?
Freddy Moore
, American songwriter
- 1952
?
Allen Collins
, American musician (
Lynyrd Skynyrd
) (d.
1990
)
- 1952
?
Robert A. Ficano
, County Executive for
Wayne County
,
Michigan
(
Detroit
and environs)
- 1954
?
Alvan Adams
, American
basketball
player
- 1954
?
Srđa Trifkovi?
, Serbian-American journalist
- 1955
?
Dalton McGuinty
, Canadian politician, 24th
Premier
of
Ontario
- 1956
?
Nikki Sudden
, American musician (d.
2006
)
- 1958
?
Peter Houston
, Scottish
footballer
and coach
- 1958
?
Kazushi Kimura
, Japanese
footballer
- 1958
?
Reuben Kane
, American professional wrestler
- 1958
?
Angharad Tomos
, Welsh author and language activist
- 1959
?
Juan Jose Campanella
, Argentine
director
- 1960
?
Atom Egoyan
, Canadian movie maker
- 1960
?
Steve Viksten
, American
television
writer
and voice actor
- 1961
?
Campbell Scott
, American actor and director
- 1961
?
Maria Filatova
, Soviet gymnast
- 1961
?
Niall Mackenzie
, Scottish
motorcycle
road racer
- 1961
?
Benoit Mariage
, Belgian movie director
- 1961
?
Hideo Nakata
, Japanese movie director
- 1961
?
Lisa Lampanelli
, American comedienne
- 1962
?
Anthony Edwards
, American actor
- 1964
?
Masahiko Kondo
, Japanese singer, lyricist and actor
- 1965
?
Evelyn Glennie
, Scottish
percussionist
- 1965
?
Hailemariam Desalegn
,
Prime Minister
of
Ethiopia
- 1965
?
Stuart Scott
, American sportscaster (d.
2015
)
- 1966
?
Nancy Carell
, American actress
- 1968
?
Pavel Kuka
, Czech
footballer
- 1968
?
Robert Flynn
, American musician (
Machine Head
)
- 1969
?
Gabrielle
, English singer
- 1970
?
Nicola Sturgeon
, Scottish politician, 5th
First Minister of Scotland
- 1971
?
Urs Buhler
, Swiss
tenor
(
Il Divo
)
- 1971
?
Vitali Klitschko
, Ukrainian boxer and politician,
Mayor
of
Kyiv
- 1971
?
Naoki Soma
, Japanese
footballer
- 1971
?
Russell Allen
, American singer
- 1971
? Alan Marriott, Canadian voice actor
- 1972
?
Ebbe Sand
, Danish
footballer
- 1972
?
David Lammy
, English politician
- 1973
?
Martin Powell
, English musician (
Cradle of Filth
)
- 1973
?
Scott Walker
, Canadian hockey player
- 1974
?
Preston Wilson
, American
baseball
player
- 1976
?
Eric Prydz
, Swedish DJ and producer
- 1976
?
Benedict Cumberbatch
, British actor
- 1976
?
Vinessa Shaw
, American actress
- 1976
?
Gonzalo de los Santos
,
Uruguayan
footballer
- 1976
?
Angela Griffin
, English actress
- 1977
?
Tony Mamaluke
, American wrestler
- 1977
?
Charles John Spencer
, American professional wrestler
- 1978
?
Chiara Zanni
, Canadian actress
- 1979
?
Luke Young
, English footballer
- 1979
?
Rick Ankiel
, American baseball pitcher
- 1980
?
Xavier Malisse
, Belgian tennis player
- 1980
?
Michelle Heaton
, English singer and model (
Liberty X
)
- 1980
?
Mark Webber
, American actor
- 1981
?
Didz Hammond
, bassist/backing vocalist (
Dirty Pretty Things
and
The Cooper Temple Clause
)
- 1981
?
Nikki Osborne
, Australian actress
- 1981
?
Chris Spicuzza
, American musician (
Chimaira
)
- 1982
?
Jared Padalecki
, American actor
- 1982
?
Stuart Parnaby
, English footballer
- 1983
?
Brooke Kinsella
, English actress
- 1983
?
Helen Skelton
, English
television
presenter
- 1984
?
Diana Mocanu
, Romanian swimmer
- 1984
?
Adam Morrison
, American
basketball
player
- 1985
?
LaMarcus Aldridge
, American
basketball
player
- 1985
?
Hadi Norouzi
, Iranian
footballer
(d.
2015
)
- 1986
?
Leandro Greco
, Italian
footballer
- 1987
?
Hugh Harris
, English
singer
and
guitarist
(
The Kooks
)
- 1988
?
Shane Dawson
, American comedian and actor
- 1988
?
Kevin Grosskreutz
, German
footballer
- 1990
?
Aron Palmarsson
,
Icelandic
handball
player
- 1990
?
Steven Anthony Lawrence
, American actor
- 1995
?
Maria Paseka
, Russian gymnast
- 1996
?
Oh Ha-young
, South Korean
singer
- 1998
?
Erin Cuthbert
, Scottish
footballer
- 514
?
Pope Symmachus
- 806
?
Li Shigu
, Chinese
general
(b.
778
)
- 931
?
Uda of Japan
(b.
867
)
- 1374
?
Francesco Petrarca
, Italian poet (b.
1304
)
- 1415
?
Philippa of Lancaster
(b.
1359
)
- 1543
?
Mary Boleyn
, sister of
Anne Boleyn
(b.
1499
)
- 1631
?
Cesare Cremonini
, Italian
philosopher
(b.
1550
)
- 1682
?
Yohannes I
,
Emperor
of
Ethiopia
(b.
1640
)
- 1692
?
Sarah Good
, accused at the
Salem Witch Trials
(b.
1653
)
- 1692
?
Susannah Martin
, accused at the
Salem Witch Trials
(b.
1621
)
- 1742
?
William Somervile
, English
poet
(b.
1675
)
- 1810
?
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
, Queen of
Prussia
(b.
1776
)
- 1814
?
Matthew Flinders
, English explorer of Australia (b.
1774
)
- 1824
?
Agustin de Iturbide
,
Emperor
of
Mexico
(b.
1783
)
- 1838
?
Pierre Louis Dulong
, French
physicist
(b.
1785
)
- 1838
?
Christmas Evans
, Welsh minister (b.
1766
)
- 1850
?
Margaret Fuller
, American writer (b.
1810
)
- 1857
?
Stefano Franscini
, Swiss Federal Councillor (b.
1796
)
- 1878
?
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
, Russian
mathematician
(b.
1847
)
- 1911
?
Manuel Iradier
, Spanish explorer (b.
1854
)
- 1913
?
Climaco Calderon
,
President
of
Colombia
(b.
1852
)
- 1925
?
Louis-Nazaire Begin
,
Archbishop
of
Quebec
(b.
1840
)
- 1943
?
Yekaterina Budanova
, Soviet flying ace (b.
1916
)
- 1947
?
Aung San
,
Burmese
revolutionary,
nationalist
,
general
, and
politician
(b.
1915
)
- 1947
?
U Razak
, Burmese politician (b.
1898
)
- 1947
?
Lyuh Woon-hyung
, South Korean politician (b.
1886
)
- 1965
?
Rhee Syng-man
,
President of South Korea
(b.
1875
)
- 1970
?
Egon Eiermann
, German
architect
and
designer
(b.
1904
)
- 1974
?
Erno Schwarz
, Hungarian footballer (b.
1904
)
- 1975
?
Lefty Frizzell
, American
country musician
and
singer
(b.
1928
)
- 1977
?
Karl Ristikivi
,
Estonian
writer (b.
1912
)
- 1980
?
Nihat Erim
, Prime Minister of
Turkey
(b.
1912
)
- 1980
?
Hans Morgenthau
, German political philosopher (b.
1904
)
- 1982
?
Hugh Everett
, American
physicist
(b.
1930
)
- 1984
?
Faina Ranevskaya
, Russian actress (b.
1896
)
- 1989
?
Kazimierz Sabbat
,
President
of
Poland
(b.
1913
)
- 1992
?
Paolo Borsellino
, Italian magistrate (b.
1940
)
- 2003
?
Pierre Graber
, Swiss Federal Councillor (b.
1908
)
- 2004
?
Zenko Suzuki
,
Prime Minister of Japan
(b.
1911
)
- 2007
?
Roberto Fontanarrosa
, Argentine
cartoonist
(b.
1944
)
- 2009
?
Frank McCourt
, Irish-American writer (b.
1930
)
- 2009
?
Henry Surtees
, British racing driver (b.
1991
)
- 2010
?
David Warren
, Australian inventor (b.
1925
)
- 2012
?
Omar Suleiman
, Egyptian army general, intelligence officer and politician (b.
1936
)
- 2012
?
Hans Nowak
, German
footballer
(b.
1937
)
- 2013
?
Bert Trautmann
, German
footballer
(b.
1923
)
- 2013
?
Mel Smith
, British
comedian
,
actor
,
director
and
writer
(b.
1952
)
- 2013
?
Simon Pimenta
, Indian
cardinal
(b.
1920
)
- 2014
?
Lionel Ferbos
, American
jazz
trumpeter
(b.
1911
)
- 2014
?
John Fasano
, American
screenwriter
,
producer
and
director
(b.
1961
)
- 2014
?
David Easton
, Canadian political scientist (b.
1917
)
- 2014
?
Ingemar Odlander
, Swedish
journalist
(b.
1936
)
- 2014
?
Yehuda Nir
, Polish-born psychiatrist (b.
1930
)
- 2014
?
Iring Fetscher
, German political scientist (b.
1922
)
- 2014
?
Rubem Alves
, Brazilian
theologian
and
philosopher
(b.
1933
)
- 2014
?
Paul M. Fleiss
, American
pediatrician
(b.
1933
)
- 2014
?
Skye McCole Bartusiak
, American actress (b.
1992
)
- 2014
?
James Garner
, American actor (b.
1928
)
- 2015
?
Gennadiy Seleznyov
, Russian politician (b.
1947
)
- 2015
?
Galina Prozumenshchikova
, Russian swimmer (b.
1948
)
- 2015
?
Van Alexander
, American
jazz
composer
, arranger and
bandleader
(b.
1915
)
- 2015
?
Stellan Bojerud
, Swedish politician (b.
1944
)
- 2015
?
Carmino Ravosa
, Argentine composer (b.
1930
)
- 2016
?
Carlos Gorostiza
, Argentine
playwright
,
theatre
director and
novelist
(b.
1920
)
- 2016
?
Garry Marshall
, American director, actor, producer and writer (b.
1934
)
- 2016
?
Chief Zee
, American football fan (
Washington Redskins
) (b.
1941
)
- 2017
?
Miguel Blesa
, Spanish banker (b.
1947
)
- 2017
?
Jake Butcher
, American banker and politician (b.
1936
)
- 2017
?
Blaoui Houari
, Algerian
singer-songwriter
(b.
1926
)
- 2017
?
Ralph Regula
, American politician (b.
1924
)
- 2018
?
Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
, Mexican
professional wrestler
and actor (b.
1932
)
- 2018
?
Jon Schnepp
, American film director and animator (b.
1967
)
- 2018
?
Denis Ten
,
Kazakhstani
figure skater (b.
1993
)
- 2019
?
Agnes Heller
, Hungarian
philosopher
(b.
1929
)
- 2019
?
Cesar Pelli
, Argentine
architect
(b.
1926
)
- 2019
?
Yao Lee
, Chinese singer (b.
1922
)
- 2019
?
John Elya
, Lebanese-born religious figure (b.
1928
)
- 2019
?
Bert Rechichar
, American football player (b.
1930
)
- 2019
?
Rutger Hauer
, Dutch actor (b.
1944
)
- 2019
?
Don Mossi
, American
baseball
player (b.
1929
)