Anniversaries 19 May

Birth

Li Bai19

Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period 701–762

Johann Gottlieb Fichte102

German philosopher 1762–1814

Margaret Junkin Preston6

American writer 1820–1897

Walter Russell12

American philosopher 1871–1963

Wilson Mizner20

American writer 1876–1933

Уилсон Мизнер1

1876–1933

Mohammad Mosaddegh3

Prime Minister of Iran 1882–1967

Ho Chi Minh34

Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

Milutin Bojić1

Serbian playwright and poet (1892-1917) 1892–1917

Michael Balcon2

English Film producer 1896–1977

Julius Evola10

Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898–1974

Helen Steiner Rice2

American poet 1900–1981

Bruce Bennett4

actor 1906–2007

Harold Koontz17

1909–1984

Nathuram Godse12

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi 1910–1949

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy17

sixth President of India 1913–1996

Max Perutz1

Austrian-born British molecular biologist 1914–2002

Abraham Pais19

American Physicist 1918–2000

Yuri Kochiyama3

American activist 1921–2014

Peter Wildeblood1

British writer 1923–1999

Malcolm X180

American human rights activist 1925–1965

Pol Pot10

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea 1925–1998

Serge Lang5

mathematician 1927–2005

Lorraine Hansberry14

playwright and writer 1930–1965

Rudolf E. Kálmán5

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer 1930–2016

Edward de Bono33

Maltese physician 1933

Ruskin Bond15

British Indian writer 1934

Girish Raghunath Karnad8

Indian playwright 1938–2019

Nancy Kwan1

Chinese-American actress and restauranter 1939

John Esposito2

writer and professor of Islamic studies 1940

Nora Ephron49

Film director, author screenwriter 1941–2012

Jane E. Brody4

American writer 1941

Gary Kildall7

Computer scientist and entrepreneur 1942–1994

Robert Kilroy-Silk8

British politician 1942

Peter Mayhew2

British actor 1944–2019

Grace Jones1

Jamaican singer, actress and model 1948

Ashraf Ghani1

Afghanistani politician 1949

Cristóbal López Romero1

cardinal 1952

Victoria Wood3

British comedian 1953–2016

Bill Laimbeer1

American basketball player 1957

Cynthia Barnett3

American journalist 1966

Jodi Picoult595

Author 1966

Theo de Raadt19

systems software engineer 1968

Uwem Akpan4

Nigerian Jesuit priest and writer 1971

Alyson Richman1

American writer 1972

Greg Steube1

U.S. Representative from Florida 1978

Andrea Pirlo11

Italian footballer 1979

Georges St. Pierre8

Canadian mixed martial artist 1981

David Edgar1

Canadian soccer player 1987

Death

Alcuin2

English scholar and abbot 735–804

Li Qingzhao3

Chinese writer 1084–1155

Anne Boleyn3

Second wife of Henry VIII of England, mother of Queen Eliza… 1501–1536

Miyamoto Musashi100

Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584–1645

James Boswell23

Scottish lawyer, diarist and author 1740–1795

Henri de Saint-Simon9

French early socialist theorist 1760–1825

Charles James Apperley1

Welsh sportsman and writer 1778–1843

Nathaniel Hawthorne128

American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

William Ewart Gladstone121

British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United… 1809–1898

Bolesław Prus10

leading figure in the history of Polish literature 1847–1912

Ferdinand Hodler8

Swiss artist 1853–1918

José Martí103

Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

Joseph Larmor3

Irish physicist and mathematician 1857–1942

Booth Tarkington3

American novelist 1869–1946

Jadunath Sarkar11

Indian historian 1870–1958

Walter Russell12

American philosopher 1871–1963

Frederick B. Maurice2

British Army general and historian 1871–1951

Max Scheler48

German philosopher 1874–1928

Charles Ives3

American composer 1874–1954

Gabriele Münter24

German painter 1877–1962

Bangalore Nagarathnamma3

Indian singer 1878–1952

T. E. Lawrence33

British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat 1888–1935

Halvard Lange1

Norwegian politician 1902–1970

Ogden Nash125

American poet 1902–1971

John Betjeman30

English poet, writer and broadcaster 1906–1984

Jacques Ellul125

French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

James Tiptree, Jr3

American science fiction writer 1915–1987

Bernard Lewis33

British-American historian 1916–2018

Warren Leopold2

1920–1998

Koichi Tohei43

Japanese aikidoka 1920–2011

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis50

public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

Robert S. Wistrich1

historian 1945–2015