Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 19

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[edit] Births

• 1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957) (pictured)
• 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
• 1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
• 1946 - Tim Curry, British actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
• 1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1989 - Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
• 1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
• 1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)