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July 19

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Franco-Prussian War

156 years ago

Born this day

1304

Petrarch

Died aged 69

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1962nd

Great Fire of Rome

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Famous births27

1223 · 803 yrs

Baibars

Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (Arabic: الْمَلِك الظَّاهِر رُكْن الدِّين بَيْبَرْس الْبُنْدُقْدَارِيّ; 1223/1228 – 30 June 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars (بَيْبَرْس) and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أَبُو الْفُتُوح, lit.

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1304 · 722 yrs

Petrarch

Francis Petrarch (born Francesco di Petracco; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374) was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.

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1754 · 272 yrs

Seraphim of Sarov

Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский; 30 July 1754 or 1759 – 14 January 1833), born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín (Mashnín), is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion.

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ReligionDied aged 78

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1819 · 207 yrs

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1834 · 192 yrs

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (UK:, US:; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French:; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced wax sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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1890 · 136 yrs

George II of Greece

George II (Greek: Γεώργιος Β', romanized: Geórgios II; 19 July 1890 – 1 April 1947) was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

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1896 · 130 yrs

A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist.

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1898 · 128 yrs

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse ( mar-KOO-zə; German:; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique.

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1943 · 83 yrs

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist and a Rowan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics.

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1946 · 80 yrs

Ilie Năstase

Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (Romanian:; born 19 July 1946) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the inaugural world No.

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Famous deaths13

1814 · 212 yrs

Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.

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1824 · 202 yrs

Agustín I of Mexico

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (Spanish pronunciation:; 27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as the first Emperor of Mexico from 1822 until his abdication in 1823.

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1850 · 176 yrs

Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.

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LiteratureDied aged 40

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1913 · 113 yrs

Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka (Ukrainian: Леся Українка, romanized: Lesia Ukrainka, pronounced; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; 25 February 1871 – 1 August 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays.

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LiteratureDied aged 42

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1947 · 79 yrs

Aung San

Aung San (Burmese: အောင်ဆန်း, MLCTS: aung hcan:, pronounced; 13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he was assassinated just six months before his goal was realized.

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1957 · 69 yrs

Curzio Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte (Italian:; born Kurt Erich Suckert; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957) was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy for his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949).

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1965 · 61 yrs

Syngman Rhee

Syngman Rhee (Korean: 이승만; Hanja: 李承晚; pronounced; 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) (also known by his art name Unam (우남; 雩南)) was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.

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1980 · 46 yrs

Hans Morgenthau

Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.

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2004 · 22 yrs

Zenkō Suzuki

Zenkō Suzuki (鈴木善幸, Suzuki Zenkō; 11 January 1911 – 19 July 2004) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982.

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2014 · 12 yrs

James Garner

James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor and producer of film and television. He was an Academy Award nominee, and won three Golden Globe Awards (out of 12 total nominations) and two Primetime Emmy Awards (out of 15 total nominations).

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2016 · 10 yrs

Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American screenwriter, director, producer and actor. Marshall began his career in the 1960s as a writer for The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show until he developed the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple.

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2019 · 7 yrs

Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (Dutch:; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, with a career that spanned over 170 roles across nearly 50 years, beginning in 1969. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.

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Events5

AD 64 · 1962 yrs

Great Fire of Rome

The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: incendium magnum Romae) began on the evening of 18–19 July 64 AD. The fire started in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium, Circus Maximus.

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Disaster

AD 711 · 1315 yrs

Battle of Guadalete

The Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, fought in July 711 at an unidentified location in what is now southern Spain between the Visigoths under their king, Roderic, and the invading forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, composed of mainly Berbers and some Arabs…

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War

1870 · 156 yrs

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Confederation led by Prussia.

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War

1980 · 46 yrs

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics (Russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, romanized: Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially branded as Moscow 1980 (Москва 1980, Moskva 1980), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

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Sports

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 FIFA World Cup final

The final match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup—the 23rd edition of the FIFA competition for men's national soccer teams—was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, part of the New York metropolitan area, on July 19, 2026. It was contested by Spain and defending champion Argentina.

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