Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 19
Births
[edit]- 1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
- 1885 - Charles E. Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
- 1931 - John le Carré, English novelist (d. 2020)
- 1945 - John Lithgow, American actor (pictured)
- 1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
- 1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
- 1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
Deaths
[edit]- 1216 - John, King of England (b. 1166)
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
- 1851 - Marie Thérèse of France (b. 1778)
- 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)