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April 19

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American Revolutionary War

251 years ago

Born this day

1939

Ali Khamenei

Would be 87

Oldest record

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Leo IX

death anniversary

Famous births10

1832 · 194 yrs

José Echegaray

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spanish pronunciation:; 19 April 1832 – 14 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.

LiteratureWould be 194

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1882 · 144 yrs

Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

PoliticsWould be 144

Photo: Governo do Brasil · Public domain

1912 · 114 yrs

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( SEE-borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

ScienceWould be 114

Photo: Atomic Energy Commission. (1946 - 01/19/1975) · Public domain

1939 · 87 yrs

Ali Khamenei

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination by Israeli airstrikes in 2026.

LiteratureWould be 87

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1957 · 69 yrs

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, the largest public company in India by market capitalisation in 2025.

BusinessAge 69

Photo: World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0

1968 · 58 yrs

Mswati III

Mswati III (born Makhosetive Dlamini; 19 April 1968) is the Ngwenyama (King) of Eswatini and head of the Swazi royal family since 1986. He is the head of an absolute monarchy, holding executive authority over all branches of government and constitutionally immune from prosecution.

RoyaltyAge 58

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1972 · 54 yrs

Rivaldo

Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 19 April 1972), known simply as Rivaldo, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played primarily as an attacking midfielder or second striker, while also operating as a left winger.

SportsAge 54

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1978 · 48 yrs

James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).

FilmAge 48

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1979 · 47 yrs

Kate Hudson

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Born to singer Bill Hudson and actress Goldie Hawn, Hudson made her film debut in the 1998 drama Desert Blue, which was followed by supporting roles in several films.

MusicAge 47

Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0

1987 · 39 yrs

Maria Sharapova

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мария Юрьевна Шарапова, romanized: Mariya Yuryevna Sharapova, pronounced; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

SportsAge 39

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Famous deaths8

1054 · 972 yrs

Leo IX

Pope Leo IX (Italian: Leone IX, German: Leo IX.; born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg; 21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054) was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054.

ReligionWould be 1024

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1560 · 466 yrs

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems.

ReligionWould be 529

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1824 · 202 yrs

Lord Byron

George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets.

LiteratureWould be 238

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1881 · 145 yrs

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

PoliticsWould be 221

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1882 · 144 yrs

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin ( DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

ScienceWould be 217

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1914 · 112 yrs

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSE; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

ScienceWould be 187

Photo: Napoleon Sarony · Public domain

1967 · 59 yrs

Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman and politician who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963.

PoliticsWould be 150

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2021 · 5 yrs

Walter Mondale

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American politician who was the 42nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter.

PoliticsWould be 98

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Events6

1775 · 251 yrs

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the…

War

1839 · 187 yrs

Treaty of London

The Treaty of London of 1839, was signed on 19 April 1839 between the major European powers, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of Belgium.

Politics

1943 · 83 yrs

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an uprising by the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps in 1943.

War

1980 · 46 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1980

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 19 April 1980 at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague, Netherlands, and presented by Marlous Fluitsma.

Culture

1995 · 31 yrs

Oklahoma City bombing

On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an act of domestic terrorism.

Tragedy

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 Indian general election

General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 4 June to form the 18th Lok Sabha.

Politics

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