October 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 19, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#268 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 19 birthdays
Umberto Boccioni · Italian painter and sculptor1882
Lewis Mumford · American historian1895
Miguel Ángel Asturias · Guatemalan writer and diplomat1899
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar · Indian-American astrophysicist1910
Jean Dausset · French immunologist1916
Gunnar Nordahl · Swedish association football player1921
John le Carré · British novelist and spy1931
Michael Gambon · Irish and English actor1940
John Lithgow · American actor1945
Divine · American actor, singer and drag queen1945
Angus Deaton · British microeconomist1945
Philip Pullman · English author1946
Evander Holyfield · American boxer1962
Jon Favreau · American actor and filmmaker1966
Hibatullah Akhundzada · Supreme Leader of Afghanistan since 20211967
Trey Parker · American actor, animator and filmmaker1969
Pedro Castillo · President of Peru from 2021 to 20221969
Omar Gooding · American actor1976
Jason Reitman · Canadian-American film director1977
Rebecca Ferguson · Swedish actress1983
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
1965Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army.
2013British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.
2017Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
1973President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1987The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the stock market index's history.
1988The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.
2005Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).
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