Anniversaries 19 July

Birth

Seraphim of Sarov1

Russian saint 1754–1833

Edgar Degas67

French artist 1834–1917

Hermann Bahr1

austrian dramatic, publicist and writer 1863–1934

Charles Horace Mayo1

American physician 1865–1939

Florence Foster Jenkins1

American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill an… 1868–1944

Francesco Saverio Nitti3

Italian economist and political figure 1868–1953

Aristides de Sousa Mendes8

Portuguese diplomat 1885–1954

A. J. Cronin7

Scottish novelist and physician 1896–1981

Herbert Marcuse105

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

Daniel Katz11

American psychologist 1903–1998

Vernon Richards1

British activist 1915–2001

Eve Merriam1

American poet and writer 1916–1992

Maurice Bucaille3

French physician and author 1920–1998

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1

American medical physicist 1921–2011

George S. McGovern5

American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presi… 1922–2012

David Finkelstein1

American physicist 1929–2016

Norman Manea1

Romanian writer 1936

Jayant Narlikar36

Indian physicist 1938

Yok Mu-ming2

Taiwanese politician 1940

Neelie Kroes1

Dutch politician 1941

Thomas J. Sargent10

American economist 1943

Michael Klaper8

American physician 1947

Brian May2

English musician and astrophysicist 1947

Wang Qishan7

Chinese politician 1948

Howard Schultz1

1953

Hideo Nakata1

Japanese film director 1961

Chip Heath2

American writer 1963

Garth Nix88

Australian fantasy writer 1963

Lisa Jewell1

British writer 1968

Kelly Link3

American writer 1969

Nicola Sturgeon8

First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish Natio… 1970

Vitali Klitschko18

Ukrainian boxer and politician 1971

John Avlon9

American journalist 1973

Benedict Cumberbatch8

English actor and film producer 1976

Adam Morrison1

American basketball player 1984

Death

Thomas Creech1

English translator 1659–1700

William Somervile9

English poet 1675–1742

Samuel Wilberforce4

Bishop in the Church of England 1805–1873

Margaret Fuller116

American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

Charles Frederick Webber1

American soldier killed in action 1825–1863

Rose Hartwick Thorpe1

American poet 1850–1939

Francis Maitland Balfour1

British biologist 1851–1882

Syngman Rhee2

first president of South Korea (1875-1965) 1875–1965

Barbara Drake1

British politician 1876–1963

Hans Morgenthau15

American political scientist 1904–1980

Marcello Marchesi1

Italian actor and director 1912–1978

Aung San5

Burmese revolutionary leader 1915–1947

David Easton1

Canadian academic 1917–2014

Girilal Jain18

Indian journalist 1924–1993

Allen Newell7

American cognitive scientist 1927–1992

Patrick Swift60

British artist 1927–1983

James Garner3

American film and television actor 1928–2014

Hugh Everett5

American physicist, author of the many-worlds interpretatio… 1930–1982

Frank McCourt38

Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

Гарри Кент Маршалл3

1934–2016

Jude Milhon4

American hacker & author 1939–2003

Anthony D. Smith20

British academic 1939–2016