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April 19

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American Revolutionary War

251 years ago

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1939

Ali Khamenei

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Famous births29

1492 · 534 yrs

Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (US:, Italian:; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspoken critic of the powerful.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1793 · 233 yrs

Ferdinand I of Austria

Ferdinand I and V (German: Ferdinand Karl Leopold Joseph Franz Marcellin; 19 April 1793 – 29 June 1875) was Emperor of Austria (as Ferdinand I), King of Hungary (as Ferdinand V), and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848.

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RoyaltyDied aged 82

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1801 · 225 yrs

Gustav Fechner

Gustav Theodor Fechner (German:; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind), he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1832 · 194 yrs

José Echegaray

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spanish pronunciation:; 19 April 1832 – 14 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 84

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1882 · 144 yrs

Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

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1912 · 114 yrs

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( SEE-borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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ScienceWould be 114

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1922 · 104 yrs

Erich Hartmann

Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed Bubi, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions.

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MilitaryWould be 104

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1932 · 94 yrs

Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian painter and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece.

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ArtWould be 94

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1933 · 93 yrs

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her buxom figure, and her personal life.

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FilmWould be 93

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1937 · 89 yrs

Joseph Estrada

Joseph Ejercito Estrada (born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino retired politician and former actor who served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 until his removal from office in 2001.

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1939 · 87 yrs

Ali Khamenei

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination by Israeli airstrikes in 2026.

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LiteratureWould be 87

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1946 · 80 yrs

Tim Curry

Timothy James Curry (19 April 1946 – 25 August 2026) was an English actor, comedian and singer who amassed more than 240 credits on screen and stage in a career which spanned nearly 60 years. Curry made his acting debut in the West End production of Hair (1968–1969) and gained wide recognition for portraying Dr.

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Famous deaths23

1054 · 972 yrs

Leo IX

Pope Leo IX (Italian: Leone IX, German: Leo IX.; born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg; 21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054) was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054.

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ReligionDied aged 51

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1390 · 636 yrs

Robert II of Scotland

Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was named Robert Stewart.

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RoyaltyDied aged 74

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1560 · 466 yrs

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems.

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ReligionDied aged 63

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1632 · 394 yrs

Sigismund III Vasa

Sigismund III Vasa (Polish: Zygmunt III Waza, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa.

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RoyaltyDied aged 65

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1758 · 268 yrs

Giovanni Antonio Canal

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian:), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

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ArtDied aged 60

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1824 · 202 yrs

Lord Byron

George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets.

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LiteratureDied aged 36

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1881 · 145 yrs

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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PoliticsDied aged 76

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1882 · 144 yrs

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin ( DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1900 · 126 yrs

Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.

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ArtDied aged 82

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1906 · 120 yrs

Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, for their work on radioactivity.

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ScienceDied aged 46

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1914 · 112 yrs

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSE; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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ScienceDied aged 74

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1967 · 59 yrs

Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman and politician who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963.

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PoliticsWould be 150

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Events6

1775 · 251 yrs

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the…

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War

1839 · 187 yrs

Treaty of London

The Treaty of London of 1839, was signed on 19 April 1839 between the major European powers, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Politics

1943 · 83 yrs

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an uprising by the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps in 1943.

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War

1980 · 46 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1980

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 19 April 1980 at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague, Netherlands, and presented by Marlous Fluitsma.

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Culture

1995 · 31 yrs

Oklahoma City bombing

On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an act of domestic terrorism.

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Tragedy

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 Indian general election

General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 4 June to form the 18th Lok Sabha.

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