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October 19

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2025 Louvre robbery

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Born this day

1899

Miguel Ángel Asturias

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John, King of England

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Famous births27

1433 · 593 yrs

Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino (Italian:; Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.

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PhilosophyDied aged 65

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1605 · 421 yrs

Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne ( "brown"; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science, medicine, religion and the esoteric.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1882 · 144 yrs

Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni (US:; Italian:; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.

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1899 · 127 yrs

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish:; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.

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1910 · 116 yrs

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Henri Troyat

Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; 1 November 1911 – 2 March 2007) was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.

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1916 · 110 yrs

Jean Dausset

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Gunnar Nordahl

Nils Gunnar Nordahl (Swedish pronunciation:; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer.

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1931 · 95 yrs

John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), known by his pen name John le Carré ( lə-KARR-ay), was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television.

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1940 · 86 yrs

Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon ( GAM-bon; 19 October 1940 – 27 September 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre.

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1944 · 82 yrs

Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer.

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1945 · 81 yrs

John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow ( LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen.

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Famous deaths14

1216 · 810 yrs

John, King of England

John (Christmastide 1166/7 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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RoyaltyDied aged 49

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1682 · 344 yrs

Thomas Browne

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1745 · 281 yrs

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1851 · 175 yrs

Marie Thérèse of France

Marie-Thérèse (Marie-Thérèse Charlotte; 19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood.

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RoyaltyDied aged 72

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1909 · 117 yrs

Cesare Lombroso

Cesare Lombroso ( lom-BROH-soh, US also lawm-; Italian:; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1936 · 90 yrs

Lu Xun

Lu Xun (Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn,; 25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.

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1937 · 89 yrs

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday".

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1950 · 76 yrs

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright.

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1970 · 56 yrs

Lázaro Cárdenas

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (Spanish pronunciation:; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican general, statesman, and revolutionary who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.

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1983 · 43 yrs

Maurice Bishop

Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary, politician and the leader of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), a party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and true black liberation.

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1986 · 40 yrs

Samora Moisés Machel

Samora Moisés Machel (September 29, 1933 – October 19, 1986) was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which killed 34 people, including several Mozambican…

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2003 · 23 yrs

Alija Izetbegović

Alija Izetbegović (8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosopher and author who served as the president of the presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996.

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Events5

1466 · 560 yrs

Second Peace of Thorn (1466)

The Peace of Thorn or Toruń of 1466, also known as the Second Peace of Thorn or Toruń (German: Zweiter Friede von Thorn; Polish: drugi pokój toruński), was a peace treaty signed in the Hanseatic city of Thorn (Toruń) on 19 October 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Knights, which ended…

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Politics

1914 · 112 yrs

First Battle of Ypres

The First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium.

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War

1987 · 39 yrs

Black Monday

{\textstyle } Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was a global, severe and largely unexpected stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987. Worldwide losses were estimated at US$1.71 trillion.

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Disaster

2023 · 3 yrs

Red Sea crisis

The Red Sea crisis is an ongoing armed conflict and maritime crisis instigated by the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen.

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War

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Louvre robbery

On 19 October 2025, thieves disguised as construction workers stole eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels valued at approximately €88 million from the Galerie d'Apollon (lit. 'Apollo's Gallery') of the Louvre in Paris, France.

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