Anniversaries 19 January
Birth
Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
1200–1253
Japanese Zen Buddhist master
1686–1769
British engineer
1736–1819
writer and botanist from France
1737–1814
American writer
1752–1820
French philosopher
1798–1857
United States poet
1803–1878
Confederate general in the Civil War
1807–1870
Anarchist, Entrepreneur, Abolitionist
1808–1887
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
1809–1849
Union Army soldier
1841–1863
American psychologist, educator and philosopher
1842–1921
Canadian politician, judge, academic administrator
1843–1944
British politician
1850–1933
American ichthyologist and educator
1851–1931
German economist, sociologist, historian
1863–1941
British Army general and historian
1871–1951
American critic
1887–1943
American film personality and fashion designer
1897–1966
Russian mathematician
1912–1986
Canadian artist
1916–1986
French astrologer
1916–1962
5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1920
American novelist and short story writer
1921–1995
French writer and philosopher
1924–2006
American writer and civil engineer
1925
President of Bangladesh
1936–1981
American political scientist
1937
American sociologist
1941
American singer and songwriter
1943–1970
Croatian Roman Catholic bishop
1944
British neuroscientist and psychologist
1945–1980
American singer-songwriter and actress
1946
American climatologist
1947–2020
American comedian and actor
1955
American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic…
1958–2012
Roman Catholic archbishop
1963
British politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (bor…
1963
Complex systems scientist
1965
Novelist, short story writer, memoirist
1969
American basketball player
1988
Death
Founder of Sunni Shafi‘i
767–820
Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar
1540–1597
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so…
1809–1865
French philosopher
1858–1942
English cricketer
1871–1926
French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human…
1875–1934
American university teacher (1879-1962)
1879–1962
American musician
1897–1955
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1898–1980
American philosopher
1901–1985
British mathematician, philosopher
1903–1930
American botanist and geneticist
1906–2000
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn…
1914–2000
American writer
1923–1997
American psychologist
1923–2000
American activist
1926–2015
English-American novelist and essayist
1930–2011
Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
1931–1990
Dutch dancer and choreographer
1933–2012
American psychotherapist and author
1934–2020
American photographer
1958–1981
Al-Qaida member
1978–2015