April 19

Events

Pre-1600

• AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protest the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
• 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.<ref>Smith, The Age of the Reformation, p. 122.</ref>

1601–1900

• 1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.<ref>McCavitt p.115</ref>
• 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minutemen and other militia over British forces, later referred to as the "shot heard round the world".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1782 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
• 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
• 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
• 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.

1901–present

• 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• 1925 – Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.<ref name=Salinas>Sebastián Salinas, Por empuje y coraje. Los Albos en la época amateur 1925-1933 ("By drive and courage: The Albos in the amateur era 1925-1933")(Centro de Estudios del Deporte, 2004)|p.44 Template:ISBN</ref>
• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• 1936 – The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.<ref name="HeraldTrib">"9 Jews, 2 Arabs Dead, 54 Hurt In Jaffa Riots: Moslems Slain by British Police, Foes Knifed in Batlle (sic) Following Killing of a Jew by Bandits," New York Herald Tribune, 20 April 1936, p. 1.</ref>
• 1942 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
• 1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16, an event commonly known and celebrated as Bicycle Day.
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
• 1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
• 1975 – South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1976 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least Template:Convert by the tornado and survived uninjured.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
• 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
• 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the Template:USS, killing 47 sailors.
• 1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
• 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
• 2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
• 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
• 2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.<ref name="CBC4">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="AP">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2021 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.<ref name="NBC - First Flight of Ingenuity">Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

Pre-1600

• 1452 – Frederick IV, King of Naples (d. 1504)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1593 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1647)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

• 1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1685)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1613 – Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1661)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1633 – Willem Drost, Dutch painter (d. 1659)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1655 – George St Lo(e), Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (d. 1721)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
• 1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (d. 1783)
• 1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
• 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
• 1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
• 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
• 1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (d. 1837)
• 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
• 1806 – Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (d. 1889)
• 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author (d. 1875)
• 1831 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (d. 1889)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1888)
• 1861 – Amalie Andersen, Norwegian actress (d. 1924)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1863 – Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (d. 1940)
• 1872 – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (d. 1948)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1873 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (d. 1957)
• 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
• 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
• 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (d. 1983)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (d. 2013)
• 1898 – Constance Talmadge, American actress and producer (d. 1973)
• 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
• 1900 – Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959)

1901–present

• 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1908 – Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (d. 1990)
• 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach (d. 1984)
• 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer (d. 1990)
• 1920 – Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (d. 2015)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1920 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and war historian (d. 2019)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)<ref name=Montrose>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1921 – Leon Henkin, American logician (d. 2006)<ref name="OrovilleMR">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1921 – Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German colonel and pilot (d. 1993)
• 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1927 – Cora Sue Collins, American child actress (d.2025)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (d. 1997)Template:Cn
• 1928 – John Horlock, English engineer and academic (d. 2015)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1928 – Azlan Shah of Perak, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2023)
• 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)<ref name=SPTimes>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
• 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 1935 – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
• 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author (d. 2017)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
• 1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• 1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar
• 1939 – Clay Shaw, American accountant, judge, and politician (d. 2013)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1941 – Michel Roux, French-English chef and author (d. 2020)
• 1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer
• 1943 – Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1944 – James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2016)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1952 – Simon Cowell, English conservationist and author (d. 2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref>
• 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager (d. 2023)
• 1956 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
• 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
• 1960 – Gustavo Petro, Colombian politician, 34th and current President of Colombia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1964 – Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1965 – Suge Knight, American record executive<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
• 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1968 – Mswati III, King (Ngwenyama) of Eswatini (Swaziland)<ref name="eswatine_holidays">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion
• 1972 – Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, Brazilian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor<ref name="christensen">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Lise Klaveness, Norwegian footballer and lawyer, president of the Norwegian Football Federation<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1982 – Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 – Ali Wong, American comedian and actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player<ref name="sharapova">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1989 – Simu Liu, Canadian actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1990 – Jackie Bradley Jr., American baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001 – Dalton Knecht, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2002 – Loren Gray, American singer and internet personality<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2003 – Jackson Merrill, American baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016 – The Rizzler, American internet personality<ref name="BOOM">Template:Cite Instagram</ref>

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 843 – Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress
• 1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint (b. 954)
• 1013 – Hisham II, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)
• 1044 – Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine
• 1054 – Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
• 1321 – Gerasimus I, patriarch of Constantinople
• 1390 – Robert II, king of Scotland (b. 1316)
• 1405 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1431 – Adolph III, count of Waldeck (b. 1362)
• 1560 – Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
• 1567 – Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
• 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
• 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)

1601–1900

• 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
• 1618 – Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (b. 1566)
• 1619 – Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (b. 1573)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
• 1689 – Christina, queen of Sweden (b. 1626)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
• 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
• 1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
• 1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
• 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
• 1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
• 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
• 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
• 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
• 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1893 – Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)

1901–present

• 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 – Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)<ref>Template:Cite DCB</ref>
• 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 – Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1940 – Jack McNeela, Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1952 – Steve Conway, British singer (b. 1921)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1881)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (b. 1901)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• 1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
• 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
• 2009 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2012 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• 2013 – François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919)
• 2015 – Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2016 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918)<ref name=":0">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 2017 – Lu Chao-Hsuan, Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (b. 1929)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2020 – Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2021 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2021 – Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (b. 1947)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2022 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2023 – Moonbin, South Korean singer and actor (b. 1998)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2023 – Ron Hamilton, American musician (b. 1950)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2024 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and author (b. 1942)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Conrad of Ascoli
  • Emma of Lesum
  • Expeditus
  • George of Antioch
  • Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran)
  • Pope Leo IX
  • Ursmar
  • April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Bicycle Day, a psychedelic holiday<ref name="Fusar-PoliBorgwardt2008">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="BelouinHenningfield2018">Template:Cite journal</ref>

External links

• BBC: On This Day
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• Historical Events on April 19