Anniversaries 19 April

Birth

Niccolao Manucci8

Italian writer and historian 1638–1717

Joseph Roux9

French poet 1834–1905

Adoniram Judson Gordon3

American hymnwriter 1836–1895

Richard von Mises20

Austrian physicist and mathematician 1883–1953

Manuel Bandeira1

Brazilian writer 1886–1968

Elias Aslaksen4

Norwegian clergyman 1888–1976

Peter de Noronha44

Indian businessman 1897–1970

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill1

British politician 1901–1980

Glenn T. Seaborg4

American scientist 1912–1999

Рой Смит1

1930–1998

Getatchew Haile1

Ethiopian-American philologist; scholar of the Ge'ez langua… 1931–2021

Fred Brooks20

American computer scientist 1931

Fernando Botero4

Colombian artist 1932–2023

Jayne Mansfield14

American actress, singer, model 1933–1967

Jean Ziegler1

Swiss sociologist 1934

Dudley Moore2

English actor, comedian, composer and musician 1935–2002

Joseph Estrada1

The 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 un… 1937

Stanley Fish18

American academic 1938

Bernd Heinrich2

American ornithologist 1940

Bill Raftery4

American basketball player-coach and current broadcaster fo… 1943

George Alencherry1

Catholic cardinal 1945

Tim Curry3

English actor, voice artist, comedian and singer 1946

Mark Haines2

American journalist and television show presenter 1946–2011

Murray Perahia4

American classical pianist and conductor 1947

William G. Boykin13

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1948

Rikki Ducornet1

American writer and artist 1949

Jacques Herzog6

Swiss architect 1950

Ralph Peters18

American military officer, writer, pundit 1952

Mukesh Ambani48

Indian business magnate 1957

Gregory Colbert8

Canadian photographer 1960

Peter Chung5

Korean-American animator 1961

Mswati III1

King of Swaziland 1968

Luis Miguel12

Puerto Rican singer; music producer 1970

Fumito Ueda2

Japanese video game designer 1970

Joshua Fernandez6

Malaysian film director 1974

James Franco1

American actor, writer, producer, director, and teacher 1978

Ini Edo2

Nollywood actress 1982

Ali Wong3

American actress, comedian, and writer 1982

Arkady Martine4

Science fiction author 1985

Simisola Kosoko5

Nigerian singer and songwriter 1988

Simu Liu3

Chinese-born Canadian actor 1989

Zhang Yufei3

Chinese swimmer 1998

Death

Philip Melanchthon11

German reformer 1497–1560

Paolo Veronese3

Italian painter of the Renaissance 1523–1588

Uesugi Kenshin1

Japanese daimyo 1530–1578

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset6

English politician and poet 1536–1608

Richard Price5

Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical 1721–1791

Benjamin Rush11

American physician, educator, author 1745–1813

Andreas Schelfhout8

Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer 1787–1870

George Gordon Byron227

English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

Benjamin Disraeli306

British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881

Charles Darwin161

British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by… 1809–1882

Charles Sanders Peirce121

American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

John Addington Symonds3

English poet and literary critic 1840–1893

George Parsons Lathrop1

United States novelist and poet 1851–1898

Henry Stephens Salt19

British activist 1851–1939

E. W. Hobson20

British mathematician 1856–1933

Pierre Curie1

French physicist 1859–1906

Henry Newbolt5

English poet and writer 1862–1938

Stephen Samuel Wise3

American rabbi (1874-1949) 1874–1949

Konrad Adenauer12

German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician… 1876–1967

William Hope Hodgson11

British writer 1877–1918

Hans Kelsen6

Austrian lawyer 1881–1973

Wilhelm Bittrich2

German general 1894–1979

Maxwell D. Taylor41

United States general 1901–1987

Margaret A. Edwards1

American librarian 1902–1988

Alfred Whitney Griswold8

American historian 1906–1963

Daphne du Maurier2

British writer 1907–1989

Octavio Paz71

Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite… 1914–1998

Bruce R. McConkie1

American Mormon leader 1915–1985

Elio Toaff1

Italian rabbi 1915–2015

Frankie Howerd3

British actor 1917–1992

Reginald Rose3

American screenwriter 1920–2002

John Maynard Smith9

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist 1920–2004

François Jacob2

French biologist 1920–2013

Walter Kohn1

American physicist 1923–2016

Mirza Tahir Ahmad2

caliph of the Ahmadiyya 1928–2003

Walter Mondale1

42nd Vice President of the United States 1928–2021

E. L. Konigsburg1

American writer and illustrator 1930–2013

J. G. Ballard78

British writer 1930–2009

Eldon Hoke5

Singer, musician 1958–1997

Tamerlan Tsarnaev2

Chechen-American perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bo… 1986–2013