July 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 19, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#70 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 19 birthdays
Gottfried Keller · Swiss poet and writer of German literature1819
Edgar Degas · French Impressionist artist1834
Edward Charles Pickering · American astronomer1846
Florence Foster Jenkins · American soprano1868
Vladimir Mayakovsky · Russian and Soviet poet1893
A. J. Cronin · Scottish novelist1896
Herbert Marcuse · German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist1898
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow · American medical physicist1921
George McGovern · American historian and politician1922
Pat Hingle · American actor1924
Thomas J. Sargent · American economist1943
Brian May · British musician1947
Kgalema Motlanthe · President of South Africa1949
Nicola Sturgeon · First Minister of Scotland from 2014 to 20231970
Vitali Klitschko · Ukrainian boxer and politician1971
Benedict Cumberbatch · English actor1976
Jared Padalecki · American actor1982
Jon Jones · American mixed martial arts fighter1987
Shane Dawson · American Internet personality1988
Neto · Brazilian association football player1989
On this day in history
1848The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
1997The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
2013The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
2024Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
1934The rigid airship USS Macon surprises the USS Houston near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, demonstrating its potential for tracking ships at sea.
1936The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona begins.
1942World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
1957The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.
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