January 19

January 19 in recent years

2025 (Sunday)

2024 (Friday)

2023 (Thursday)

2022 (Wednesday)

2021 (Tuesday)

2020 (Sunday)

2019 (Saturday)

2018 (Friday)

2017 (Thursday)

2016 (Tuesday)

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England in England's reconquest of Normandy.
• 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden, is injured in the Battle of Bogesund, leading to his death on February 3.
• 1607 – The San Agustin Church in Manila is completed. It is the oldest church in the Philippines still standing.
• 1788 – A second group of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay, present–day Sydney, Australia.
• 1795 – The Batavian Republic is founded in the Netherlands.
• 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten–day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
• 1817 – An army led by Jose de San Martin crosses the Andes from Argentina to Chile, having already liberated Argentina.
• 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 is performed for the first time.
• 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden, Yemen.
• 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica.
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is performed for the first time, in Rome.
• 1861 – Confederate States of America: Georgia leaves the Union, becoming the 5th state to do so.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs, the first important Confederate defeat of the war.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussia wins in the Battle of Saint Quentin.
• 1883 – German passenger steamer Cimbria sinks after a collision off the island of Borkum in the North Sea, killing 437 people.
• 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder is performed for the first time, in Berlin.
• 1899 – Anglo–Egyptian Sudan is formed.

1901 – 2000

• 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, killing over 20 people.
• 1917 – A Munitions Plant Explosion in London kills 73 people.
• 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record, by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
• 1942 – Canadian passenger steamer RMS Lady Hawkins is sunk by a German U–boat off North Carolina, killing 251 people.
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Lodz ghetto.
• 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.
• 1949 – Cuba recognises Israel as an independent country.
• 1953 – Almost 72% of US television sets are tuned in to I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth.
• 1958 – An expedition led by Vivian Fuchs reaches the South Pole, the fourth expedition to do so.
• 1965 – The unmanned spacecraft Gemini 2 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
• 1969 – Czechoslovakian student Jan Palach dies, three days after setting himself on fire in an act of protest.
• 1975 – A large earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India.
• 1977 – Rare snowfalls occur in Miami, Florida and the Bahamas.
• 1977 – Gerald Ford pardons World War II propagandist Iva Toguri D'Aquino.
• 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle to be produced in Europe runs off the assembly line in Emden, Germany. They continue to be produced in Latin America until 2003.
• 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: US and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months in captivity.
• 1983 – The Apple Lisa commercial personal computer is announced by Apple Inc.
• 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second scud missile into Israel.
• 1993 – The Czech Republic and Slovakia join the UN.
• 1996 – The North Cape Oil Spill occurs off Rhode Island.
• 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron, West Bank, after 30 years.

From 2001

• 2006 – NASA's New Horizons probe launches to Pluto.
• 2007 – Journalist Hrant Dink is murdered in front of his newspaper office.
• 2012 – Wikipedia's English language edition ends its blackout from the previous day, which was a protest action against the SOPA and PIPA laws proposed by the United States Congress.
• 2013 – Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan survives an attempt to kill him, when his attacker is stopped by security guards.
• 2013 – An EU–wide driving licence is introduced.
• 2014 – Anti–government protests escalate in Ukraine, as a new anti–protest law comes into force.
• 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the northern Pakistani city of Bannu kills 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

Births

Up to 1900

• 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress (d. 453)
• 1544 – Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1676 – John Weldon, English musician and composer (d. 1736)
• 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
• 1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian singer, composer and music teacher (d. 1802)
• 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
• 1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German princess (d. 1831)
• 1788 – Pavel Kivelyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
• 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
• 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate General (d. 1870)
• 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
• 1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor (d. 1898)
• 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
• 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
• 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1845 – Joseph M. Carey, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1924)
• 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
• 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
• 1866 – Harry Davenport, American actor (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
• 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1922)
• 1876 – Hakashima Gonshiri, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
• 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
• 1880 – James G. Scrugham, 14th Governor of Nevada (d. 1945)
• 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter, sculptor and designer (d. 1943)
• 1890 – Elmer Niklander, Finnish sportsman (d. 1942)
• 1892 – Olafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (d. 1986)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Hans Moser, Swiss equestrian (d. 1974)
• 1905 – Stanley Hawes, British–born Australian movie producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Rudolph Wanderone, American pocket billiards player (d. 1996)
• 1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian UN Secretary–General (d. 2020)
• 1920 – Aleksander Jackowski, Polish anthropologist (d. 2018)
• 1920 – Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Nina Bawden, English writer (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1932 – Richard Lester, British movie director
• 1932 – Harry Lonsdale, American scientist and businessman (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
• 1935 – Owsley Stanley, American sound engineer and LSD supplier (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
• 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1937 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
• 1939 – Phil Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Mike Reid, English actor and comedian (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Tony Anholt, English actor (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
• 1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect
• 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
• 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• 1944 – Laurie London, British singer
• 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football coach
• 1945 – Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1945 – C. B. Forgotston, American political blogger (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Trevor Williams, British musician
• 1946 – Julian Barnes, British writer
• 1946 – Dolly Parton, American country music singer
• 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
• 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
• 1948 – Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
• 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Lindsay Roy, Scottish politician

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Gerald Tinker, American athlete
• 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
• 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
• 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and movie director
• 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1955 – Simon Rattle, British conductor
• 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
• 1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Mauro Tassotti, Italian footballer
• 1960 – Al Joyner, American athlete
• 1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer
• 1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
• 1963 – John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
• 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
• 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
• 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
• 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
• 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
• 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
• 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
• 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
• 1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
• 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
• 1973 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor and screenwriter
• 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer

From 1976

• 1979 – Wiley, British rapper
• 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
• 1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian–born dancer
• 1980 – Jenson Button, British racing driver
• 1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
• 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
• 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
• 1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
• 1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Loren Geller-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
• 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
• 1988 – Alexey Vorobyov, Russian singer and actor
• 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
• 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
• 1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper, producer and actor
• 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 520 – John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 639 – Dagobert I, king of the Franks
• 1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• 1576 – Hans Sacher, German meistersinger (b. 1494)
• 1661 – Thomas Venner, English Fifth monarchist (b. 1599)
• 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
• 1833 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
• 1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (b. 1799)
• 1851 – Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
• 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German philosopher and chemist (b. 1788)
• 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
• 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1883 – Richard England, British general (b. 1793)

1901 – 2000

• 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• 1925 – Maria Sophia of the Two Sicilies (b. 1841)
• 1927 – Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
• 1930 – Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Mohamed Amin Didi, President of the Maldives (b. 1910)
• 1957 – Jozsef Dudas, Hungarian–Romanian Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
• 1968 – Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student, political activist (b. 1948)
• 1971 – Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Michael Rabin, concert violinist (b. 1936)
• 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Tuffy Leemans, American football player (b. 1912)
• 1980 – William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (b. 1945)
• 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
• 1990 – Rajneesh, religious leader (b. 1931)
• 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Don Simpson, American movie producer (b. 1943)
• 1997 – James Dickey, poet, novelist (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Carl Perkins, guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1914)

2001 – 2015

• 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter and politician (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
• 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Donald Beardslee, United States murderer, executed in California (b. 1943)
• 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
• 2005 – Ricardo Suriñach, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000–2003) (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961).
• 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish–Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Beatrice Farve, American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier (b. 1982)
• 2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Taiho Koki, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Christopher Chataway, English athlete, broadcaster, politician and businessman (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Bert Williams, English footballer (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Azaria Alon, Israeli environmentalist (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Michel Guimond, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
• 2015 – Vladimir Kesarev, Russian footballer (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Anne Kirkbride, English actress (Coronation Street) (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thai general (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Bob Symes, English inventor and television presenter (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Karl H. Pribram, American neuroscientist and educator (b. 1919)
• 2015 – Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American Al-Qaeda operative (b. 1978)

From 2016

• 2016 – Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest–living man (b. 1903)
• 2016 – Ettore Scola, Italian movie director (b. 1931)
• 2016 – M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Robert M. Carter, English paleontologist (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Sheila Sim, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Frank Sullivan, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Richard Levins, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist (b. 1930)
• 2016 – William Y. Smith, American air force general (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Jalal Allakhverdiyev, Azerbaijani mathematician (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Wayne Barrett, American journalist (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Loalwa Braz, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
• 2017 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
• 2017 – Eddie Filgate, Irish politician (b. 1915)
• 2017 – Jan Kruis, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Ger van Mourik, Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Edwin Pope, American journalist (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Walt Streuli, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2017 – James S. Vlasto, American public servant (b. 1934)
• 2017 – H. Boyd Woodruff, American microbiologist (b. 1917)
• 2017 – Teori Zavascki, Brazilian judge (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Ute Bock, Austrian educator and humanitarian (b. 1942)
• 2018 – Anna Campori, Italian actress (b. 1917)
• 2018 – Saqi Farooqi, Pakistani poet (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Red Fisher, Canadian sports journalist (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Fredo Santana, American rapper (b. 1990)
• 2018 – Allison Shearmur, American film producer (b. 1963)

Observances

• Epiphany in the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Southern US States commemorate Robert E. Lee on this date.