January 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 19, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#337 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 19 birthdays
Robert E. Lee · Confederate States general1807
Edgar Allan Poe · American writer and literary critic1809
Paul Cézanne · French painter1839
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar · 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations1920
Patricia Highsmith · American novelist and short story writer1921
Tippi Hedren · American actress, model and activist1930
Janis Joplin · American singer1943
Dolly Parton · American singer-songwriter1946
Julian Barnes · English writer1946
Cindy Sherman · American photographer1954
Katey Sagal · American actress1954
Stefan Edberg · Swedish tennis player1966
Jenson Button · British racing driver1980
Pete Buttigieg · American politician1982
Hikaru Utada · Japanese-American singer-songwriter1983
Damien Chazelle · French-American filmmaker1985
Claudio Marchisio · Italian association football player1986
Logan Lerman · American actor1992
Mac Miller · American rapper1992
Matthias Ginter · German association football player1994
On this day in history
1920The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
1977Iva Toguri, convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
1996A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.
2025Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
1953Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1972The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
2012The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
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