Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 19

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[edit] Births

• 1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
• 1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969) (pictured)
• 1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
• 1945 - Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
• 1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)

[edit] Deaths

• 1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
• 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888)
• 1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
• 1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)