October 19

October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
• 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
• 1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
• 1386 – The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
• 1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
• 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
• 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
• 1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
• 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
• 1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
• 1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
• 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
• 1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
• 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
• 1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
• 1866 – Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
• 1900 – Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck's law).
• 1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• 1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
• 1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
• 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
• 1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.
• 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
• 1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
• 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• 1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
• 1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
• 1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
• 1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
• 1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu.
• 1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
• 1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
• 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
• 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
• 1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
• 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
• 1986 – The Boston Red Sox win Game 2 of the 1986 World Series versus the New York Mets 9-3 at Shea Stadium.
• 1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• 1987 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
• 1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
• 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
• 2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
• 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
• 2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
• 2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
• 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
• 2007 – Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
• 2012 – Big Tex, a 52-foot statue and cultural icon in Dallas, Texas, is destroyed by fire during the final weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas.
• 2013 – At least 105 people have been injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.

Births

• 1276 – Prince Hisaaki of Japan (d. 1328)
• 1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (d. 1499)
• 1562 – George Abbot, English archbishop (d. 1633)
• 1582 – Dmitry of Uglich (d. 1591)
• 1605 – Thomas Browne, English author (d. 1682)
• 1610 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English-Irish general, academic, and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1688)
• 1658 – Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
• 1680 – John Abernethy, Irish minister (d. 1740)
• 1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
• 1701 – Helen and Judith of Szony, Hungarian conjoined twins (d. 1723)
• 1718 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (d. 1804)
• 1720 – John Woolman, American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (d. 1772)
• 1721 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist and sinologist (d. 1800)
• 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English poet and critic (d. 1859)
• 1784 – John McLoughlin, Canadian-American fur trader (d. 1857)
• 1789 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and philosopher (d. 1853)
• 1810 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American journalist, lawyer, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (d. 1903)
• 1814 – Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter (d. 1878)
• 1826 – Ralph Tollemache, English clergyman (d. 1895)
• 1850 – Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935)
• 1851 – Empress Myeongseong of Korea (d. 1895)
• 1858 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (d. 1937)
• 1862 – Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (d. 1954)
• 1868 – Bertha Knight Landes, American politician, Mayor of Seattle (d. 1943)
• 1873 – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (d. 1925)
• 1873 – Bart King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1876 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1945)
• 1876 – Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Estonia (d. 1941)
• 1882 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
• 1884 – Eugen Habermann, Estonian architect (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Charles Merrill, American banker, co-founded Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Frank Durbin, American soldier (d. 1999)
• 1895 – Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)
• 1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (d. 1994)
• 1899 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
• 1900 – Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (d. 1991)
• 1900 – Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
• 1901 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
• 1903 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer (d. 1962)
• 1908 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• 1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (d. 2009)
• 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (d. 1974)
• 1916 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
• 1917 – William Joel Blass, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and educator
• 1918 – Charles Evans, English-Welsh mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Russell Kirk, American theorist and author (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 2003)
• 1920 – LaWanda Page, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Harry Alan Towers, English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Ruth Carter Stevenson, American founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Joel Feinberg, American philosopher (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter and illustrator
• 1928 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Ed Emberley, American illustrator
• 1931 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013)
• 1931 – John le Carré, English intelligence officer and author
• 1932 – Robert Reed, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1992)
• 1934 – Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian general and politician, 3rd Head of State of Nigeria
• 1936 – James Bevel, American minister and activist (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor and director
• 1936 – Sylvia Browne, American psychic and author (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
• 1937 – Peter Max, German-American illustrator
• 1940 – Larry Chance, American singer-songwriter (The Earls)
• 1940 – Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor and singer
• 1940 – Rosny Smarth, Haitian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1941 – Simon Ward, English actor (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Andrew Vachss, American lawyer and author
• 1943 – Robin Holloway, English composer and academic
• 1943 – Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1943 – L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American author and poet
• 1944 – George McCrae, American singer
• 1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley & The Wailers) (d. 1987)
• 1945 – Divine, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Patricia Ireland, American lawyer and activist
• 1945 – Gloria Jones, American singer-songwriter (T. Rex)
• 1945 – John Lithgow, American actor and singer
• 1945 – Jeannie C. Riley American singer
• 1945 – Martin Welz, South African journalist
• 1946 – Philip Pullman, English author
• 1947 – Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian author and illustrator
• 1948 – Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1948 – Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Doobie Brothers)
• 1949 – Lynn Dickey, American football player and radio host
• 1949 – Jamie McGrigor, English-Scottish politician
• 1950 – Yeslam bin Ladin, Saudi Arabian-Swiss businessman
• 1951 – Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematician and physicist
• 1952 – Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
• 1953 – Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 – Sam Allardyce, English footballer and manager
• 1954 – Deborah Blum, American journalist and author
• 1954 – Joe Bryant, American basketball player and coach
• 1955 – Dan Gutman, American author
• 1955 – Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
• 1956 – Steve Doocy, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Grover Norquist, American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform
• 1956 – Didier Theys, Belgian race car driver
• 1956 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
• 1956 – Bruce Weber, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Dorinda Clark-Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Clark Sisters)
• 1957 – Ray Richmond, American journalist and critic
• 1957 – Karl Wallinger, Welsh singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (World Party and The Waterboys)
• 1958 – Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
• 1958 – Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
• 1958 – Michael Steele, American journalist and politician, 7th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• 1959 – Nir Barkat, Israeli businessman and politician, Mayor of Jerusalem
• 1960 – Jennifer Holliday, American actress and singer
• 1960 – Susan Straight, American author
• 1961 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor and producer
• 1962 – Tracy Chevalier, American-English author
• 1962 – Evander Holyfield, American boxer and actor
• 1963 – Sinitta, American-English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1963 – Kool Keith, American rapper and producer (Ultramagnetic MCs, Analog Brothers, and Masters of Illusion)
• 1963 – Prince Laurent of Belgium
• 1964 – Jorge Luis González, Cuban-American boxer
• 1965 – Brad Daugherty, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1965 – Ty Pennington, American carpenter and television host
• 1966 – Roger Cross, Jamaican-Canadian actor
• 1966 – Jon Favreau, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright
• 1967 – Amy Carter, American daughter of Jimmy Carter
• 1967 – Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
• 1968 – Rodney Carrington, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1969 – John Edward, American psychic and author
• 1969 – Trey Parker, American actor, animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ and producer
• 1969 – Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager
• 1970 – Chris Kattan, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Pras, American rapper and producer (Fugees)
• 1972 – Keith Foulke, American baseball player
• 1973 – Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
• 1973 – Marc Beckers, German footballer
• 1973 – Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Joy Bryant, American actress
• 1976 – Paul Hartley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Omar Gooding, American actor
• 1976 – Desmond Harrington, American actor
• 1976 – Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Michael Young, American baseball player
• 1977 – Habib Beye, French-Senegalese footballer
• 1977 – Louis-José Houde, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1977 – Jason Reitman, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
• 1978 – Zakhar Dubensky, Russian footballer
• 1978 – James Roberts, English ice hockey player
• 1978 – Henri Sorvali, Finnish guitarist and keyboard player (Moonsorrow and Finntroll)
• 1979 – Marc Elliott, English actor
• 1979 – José Luis López, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends)
• 1979 – Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer and actress (Country Musume) (d. 1999)
• 1980 – José Bautista, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 – Rajai Davis, American baseball player
• 1980 – Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
• 1981 – Christian Bautista, Filipino singer and actor
• 1981 – Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
• 1982 – Gillian Jacobs, American actress
• 1982 – Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer
• 1982 – Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
• 1982 – Daan van Bunge, Dutch cricketer
• 1983 – Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and blogger
• 1984 – Kaio de Almeida, Brazilian swimmer
• 1984 – Saki Fujita, Japanese voice actress
• 1988 – Dot Rotten, English rapper and producer
• 1989 – Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
• 1990 – Tom Kilbey, English footballer
• 1990 – Janet Leon, Swedish singer-songwriter and dancer (Play)
• 1991 – Colton Dixon, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1993 – Abby Sunderland, American sailor
• 1994 – Agnė Sereikaitė, Lithuanian speed skater

Deaths

• 727 – Frithuswith, English saint (b. 650)
• 1216 – John, King of England (b. 1167)
• 1432 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
• 1608 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and author (b. 1551)
• 1636 – Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician (b. 1566)
• 1682 – Thomas Browne, English author (b. 1605)
• 1723 – Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (b. 1646)
• 1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish priest and poet (b. 1667)
• 1790 – Lyman Hall, American physician and politician, 16th Governor of Georgia (b. 1724)
• 1796 – Michel de Beaupuy, French general (b. 1755)
• 1813 – Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (b. 1763)
• 1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1755)
• 1842 – Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
• 1851 – Marie Thérèse of France (b. 1778)
• 1856 – William Sprague III, American politician, 14th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1799)
• 1889 – Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1893 – Lucy Stone, American activist (b. 1818)
• 1897 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (b. 1831)
• 1901 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (b. 1829)
• 1904 – Galen Spencer, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1916 – Ioannis Frangoudis, Greek general and target shooter (b. 1863)
• 1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1936 – Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (b. 1881)
• 1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1956 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
• 1960 – George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1964 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (b. 1881)
• 1970 – Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican politician, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Aruban-Grenadian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
• 1984 – Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded Newswatch Magazine (b. 1947)
• 1986 – Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
• 1987 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
• 1987 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Son House, American singer and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1994 – Martha Raye, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Don Cherry, American trumpet player (Codona, New York Contemporary Five, and Old and New Dreams) (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1999 – James C. Murray, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French lawyer and author (b. 1900)
• 2000 – Hortense Ellis, Jamaican singer (b. 1941)
• 2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Road Warrior Hawk, American wrestler (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author (b. 1902)
• 2005 – Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
• 2006 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Randall Forsberg, American activist and author (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Michael Maidens, English footballer (b. 1987)
• 2007 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Rudy Ray Moore, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Howard Unruh, American murderer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Tom Bosley, American actor and singer (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Kakkanadan, Indian author (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Wissam al-Hassan, Lebanese general (b. 1965)
• 2012 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Mike Graham, American wrestler (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Walter Harrison, English politician (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Johann Kniewasser, Austrian skier (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Raúl Valencia, Spanish footballer (b. 1976)
• 2013 – John Bergamo, American drummer and composer (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and skier (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (Last Exit) (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Russian geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Jon Locke, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2013 – K. Raghavan, Indian composer (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Mikihiko Renjō, Japanese author (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Armilustrium (Roman Empire)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aaron (Coptic Church)
  • Frideswide
  • Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions
  • Paul of the Cross
  • Henry Martyn (Anglican Communion)
  • William Carey (Episcopal Church)
  • October 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue)
• Mother Teresa Day (Albania)

External links

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