December 19th Events in History | |
| 1998 | House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice |
| 1997 | MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy |
| 1996 | Once Upon a Matress, opens at Broadhurst New York City for 187 performances |
| 1995 | Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles and Diana to divorce |
| 1993 | Red Shoes closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1993 | Guinee general Lansana re-elected president |
| 1991 | Christmas Carol opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1991 | 6,000th episode of One Life To Live |
| 1991 | Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin |
| 1991 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession |
| 1989 | American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route |
| 1989 | Larry Bird, of the Celtics, begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
| 1988 | NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars |
| 1988 | Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation |
| 1988 | Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated |
| 1987 | Bruins' Linseman and Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart |
| 1987 | Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ |
| 1986 | U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile |
| 1986 | Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency |
| 1986 | Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 |
| 1985 | Wind in the Willows opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1985 | Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart |
| 1985 | STS-61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem |
| 1984 | China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty |
| 1984 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1984 | Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people |
| 1984 | Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach |
| 1984 | UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| 1984 | Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points |
| 1980 | Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts |
| 1980 | Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages |
| 1980 | Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1978 | Indira Gandhi ambushed in India |
| 1977 | Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms |
| 1976 | Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ |
| 1976 | John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. India Delhi |
| 1976 | President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order |
| 1976 | Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt |
| 1975 | John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| 1975 | Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones |
| 1974 | Man With Golden Gun premieres in US |
| 1974 | Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal |
| 1974 | Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President |
| 1973 | Molly closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1973 | Grenada adopts constitution |
| 1972 | Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon landing series, returns to Earth |
| 1971 | Inner City opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 97 performances |
| 1971 | CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons) |
| 1971 | NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
| 1971 | Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres |
| 1969 | Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released |
| 1968 | WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
| 1963 | Zanzibar becomes independent from UK |
| 1962 | Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| 1962 | Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission |
| 1962 | Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched |
| 1961 | British government begins decimal coin system |
| 1961 | Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization |
| 1960 | Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) |
| 1960 | Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding) |
| 1960 | Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
| 1959 | 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
| 1958 | 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") |
| 1957 | Music Man opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances |
| 1955 | Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| 1953 | KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker" |
| 1951 | Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands |
| 1950 | General Eisenhower named NATO commander |
| 1950 | Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion |
| 1949 | Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland |
| 1949 | WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra |
| 1948 | 8th largest snowfall in New York City history (15.3") |
| 1948 | Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game |
| 1948 | Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game |
| 1946 | Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London |
| 1946 | War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
| 1945 | Austrian Republic re-establishes |
| 1945 | Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris |
| 1943 | Military coup in Bolivia |
| 1941 | German submarine U-574 sinks |
| 1941 | Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
| 1941 | U.S. Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II |
| 1939 | Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa |
| 1934 | Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930 |
| 1933 | Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized |
| 1932 | British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 112 Australia vs. South Africa at cricket SCG |
| 1931 | Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia |
| 1930 | James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP |
| 1928 | 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US |
| 1924 | Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings |
| 1922 | Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times |
| 1920 | 1st U.S. indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass) |
| 1919 | American Meteorological Society found |
| 1918 | Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe) |
| 1917 | 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) |
| 1917 | Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game |
| 1916 | Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo |
| 1913 | Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title |
| 1910 | 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt) |
| 1910 | Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn |
| 1907 | 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn |
| 1907 | Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239 |
| 1904 | Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 |
| 1903 | Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan |
| 1891 | Canadian Rugby Union forms |
| 1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" |
| 1889 | Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii |
| 1888 | Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa |
| 1887 | Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw |
| 1884 | Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1881 | Opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels) |
| 1871 | Albert L Jones (New York City), patents corrugated paper |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties) |
| 1861 | Battle of Black Water |
| 1859 | Grading started for Market Street RR |
| 1854 | Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams |
| 1843 | Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England |
| 1842 | U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin approaches New Zealand |
| 1828 | South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws |
| 1823 | Georgia passes 1st U.S. state birth registration law |
| 1795 | 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky |
| 1788 | Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam |
| 1783 | English government of Pitt, Jr. forms |
| 1777 | Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for winter |
| 1776 | Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 1732 | Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| 1696 | Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris |
| 1688 | King James II's wife and son flee to France |
| 1686 | Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) |
| 1562 | Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Conde captured |
| 1551 | Dutch west coast hit by hurricane |
| 1154 | King Henry II of England crowned |
| 1055 | Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad |
| 401 | St. Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
December 19th Birthdays in History | |
| 1981 | Stevie Ficker, Miss Oregon Teen USA 1997 |
| 1980 | Jake Gyllenhaal, American Actor |
| 1978 | Lauren Petty, Miss New Jersey Teen USA 1997 |
| 1977 | Maria Joana Parizotto, Miss Universe-Brazil 1996 |
| 1975 | Casual, born in Oakland, California, born Jon Owens, rapper, hip hop, vocalist, songs use a verse-chorus-verse arrangement, member of Hieroglyphics |
| 1975 | Kristin Folkl, born in St. Louis, Missouri, volleyball outside hitter |
| 1974 | Bryant Westbrook, cornerback, Detroit Lions |
| 1974 | Jake Plummer, quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1974 | Ricky Ponting, cricketer, prodigious Tasmania batsman, Australia 1995 |
| 1973 | Kebu Stewart, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1972 | Alyssa Jane Milano, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Samantha-Who's the Boss |
| 1972 | Warren Sapp, NFL defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1972 | Waverly Jackson, DL for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1972 | Alyssa Milano, American Actress |
| 1971 | Amy Locane, Trenton, New Jersey, actress, Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place |
| 1971 | Jen[nifer] Dore, Kearny, New Jersey, rower, Olympics-4TH-1996 |
| 1971 | Mike Groh, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1970 | Jon Cleveland, born in Fresno California, Canadian 100m/200m swimmer, Bronze Medal 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Robert Lang, Teplice, Czech Republic, NHL forward, Team Czech Republic, Los Angeles |
| 1970 | Wendy Miles, Australia, golfer, 1993 T77 Alpine Australia Ladies Masters |
| 1970 | Zac Foley, rock bassist, EMF-Unbelievable |
| 1969 | Chris Robinson, Atlanta, rocker, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker |
| 1969 | Kristy Swanson, actress, Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer |
| 1969 | Michael Bates, NFL wide receiver, Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers |
| 1969 | Mike Alexander, WLAF corner for the Rhein Fire |
| 1969 | Nayan Mongia, cricketer, Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- |
| 1969 | Santana Dotson, NFL defensive tackle, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1969 | Scott Pearson, Cornwall, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres |
| 1969 | Tom Gugliotta, NBA forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1968 | Jennifer Devine, born in Portland, Oregon, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Doug Johns, South Bend, Indiana, pitcher for the Oakland A's |
| 1966 | Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier, Gold Medal 1988, 1992 Olympics |
| 1966 | Courtney Griffin, CFL defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1966 | Eric Weinrich, Roanoke, NHL defenseman, Chicago Blackhawks |
| 1966 | Monique Oliver, Malibu California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-4th-1994 |
| 1966 | Rajesh Chauhan, cricketer, Indian off-spinner since 1993 |
| 1966 | Robert MacNaughton, New York City, actor, ET |
| 1966 | Roberto Beam, soccer player, Vitesse/MVV |
| 1965 | Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson |
| 1965 | Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress, Earth II, Homefront, Trial and Error |
| 1964 | Arvydas Sabonis, NBA center, Portland Trailblazers |
| 1964 | Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress, Betty Blue, Sabbath |
| 1964 | Lorie Kane, PEI Canada, LPGA golfer, du Maurier Ltd-1994, 95 |
| 1964 | Mike Fetters, Van Nuys California, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1964 | Randall McDaniel, NFL guard for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1963 | Chris Greatrex, LPGA golfer, 1995 Fielcrest Cannon Classic-71st |
| 1963 | Jennifer Beals, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Flashdance, Bride |
| 1963 | Karen Bliss-Livingston, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Bettina Huebers, born in Hamburg, Germany, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney |
| 1962 | Charith Senanayake, cricketer, played for Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand 1991 |
| 1961 | Reggie White, NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1961 | Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist |
| 1960 | Daryl Hannah, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Splash |
| 1960 | Mike Lookinland, born in Mount Pleasant, Utah, actor, Bobby-Brady Bunch |
| 1959 | Edward Metgod, Dutch soccer goalie, Haarlem, Sparta |
| 1959 | Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall, Michigan, fencer-epee 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Iqbal Sikander, cricketer, Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup |
| 1958 | Limahl, British rocker, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy |
| 1958 | Rick Pearson, Marianna, Florida, Nike golfer, 1990 Yuma Open |
| 1957 | Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist, Loverboy-Get Lucky |
| 1957 | Kevin McHale, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics |
| 1957 | Liz Glazowski, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, April, 1980 |
| 1956 | Alice Barrett, born in New York City, actress, Frankie Frame-Another World |
| 1955 | Susil Fernando, cricketer, 5 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983 |
| 1955 | Rob Portman, American Politician |
| 1953 | Peter McEwan, cricketer, New Zealand batsman early 80's |
| 1951 | Fred W. Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut, STS-73 |
| 1949 | Claudia A. Kolb, U.S., 200m breast stroke swimmer 1964 Olympic silver |
| 1949 | Lenny White, born in New York City, New York, musician, drummer, performed on Miles Davis' 'Bitches' Brew', recorded 'No Mystery', 'Romantic Warrior' with Return to Forever |
| 1947 | Janie Fricke, South Whitley, Indiana, singer, It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy |
| 1946 | Marianne Faithfull, born in Hampstead, England, singer, Money, As Tears Go By |
| 1946 | Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor, SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$ |
| 1945 | Elaine Joyce, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, City of Angels, Mr. Merlin |
| 1945 | John McEuen, rocker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 1944 | Alvin Lee, Nottingham England, rock vocals/guitarist, 10 Years After |
| 1944 | Richard Leakey, anthropologist |
| 1944 | Tim Reid, born in Norfolk, Virginia, comedian, Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place |
| 1944 | Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist, Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic |
| 1943 | William De Vries, Brooklyn, surgeon-inventor, Symbion artifical heart |
| 1942 | Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer |
| 1941 | Maurice White, born in Memphis, Tennessee, nicknamed Reese, rocker, singer, songwriter, record producer, founded band Earth, Wind and Fire |
| 1940 | Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over |
| 1934 | Al Kaline, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Hall of Fame outfielder for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1934 | Rudi Carrell, Rudolf W. Kesselman, Dutch showmaster |
| 1933 | Cicely Tyson, born in Harlem, New York City, actress, Roots, Miss Jane Pittman |
| 1933 | James Booth, born in London, England, actor and writer, Zulu, Robbery, Revenge |
| 1933 | Mel Gussow, American Critic |
| 1929 | Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member, VVD |
| 1928 | Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer, Letting Down My Hair |
| 1928 | Michael Hurd, composer |
| 1926 | Bobby Layne, NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions |
| 1926 | Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to UN |
| 1925 | Jimmy Dickens, Bolt, West Virginia, country singer, Grand Ole Opry |
| 1924 | Edmund Purdom, England, actor, Asissi Underground, Pieces |
| 1924 | Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1923 | Luigi Innocenti, designer |
| 1922 | Walter Hollerer, writer |
| 1921 | Ludvik Podest, composer |
| 1920 | David Susskind, New York City, TV host, Open End, David Susskind Show |
| 1920 | Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer 1936 Olympics silver |
| 1917 | Graham Sharp, ice skater |
| 1916 | Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer, Sister at Sea |
| 1916 | Hal Hastings, New York City, orchestra leader, Chevrolet on Broadway |
| 1916 | Mervyn Wallace, cricketer, 13 Tests for New Zealand, latterly as captain |
| 1915 | Edith Piaf, E Giovanna Gassion, Paris, chanteuse, Little Sparrow |
| 1910 | Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks |
| 1910 | Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist |
| 1906 | H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole |
| 1906 | Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964 - 1982 |
| 1906 | Leonid I. Brezhnev, Politician |
| 1905 | Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer |
| 1903 | Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist, hereditary mechanisms |
| 1903 | George Davis Snell, Bradford Massachusetts, geneticist, H-2 gene |
| 1903 | George Snell, genetecist |
| 1903 | George D. Snell, American Scientist |
| 1902 | Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch |
| 1902 | Ralph Richardson, born in England, actor, Anna Karenina, Dr. Zhivago |
| 1901 | Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist |
| 1901 | Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author, Presenea |
| 1897 | Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator |
| 1896 | John Seldon Whale, theologian |
| 1895 | Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre |
| 1895 | Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, Jazz Player |
| 1894 | Ford Frick, baseball commissioner, 1951 - 1965 |
| 1894 | Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter, Berlin, 1925-33 |
| 1894 | Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo, Japan, architect, modern sukiya style |
| 1893 | Harry Blomberg, Swedish author, Master Jacob |
| 1891 | Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, president-in-exile, 1979 - 1986 |
| 1890 | Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar, Occupied Territory |
| 1888 | Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| 1885 | F S Flint, born in London, England, translator/poet, imagist movement |
| 1884 | Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1884 | Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer |
| 1883 | Louis Davids, Simon David, Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer |
| 1883 | [Francis] Barry Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, architect |
| 1882 | Walter Braunfels, composer |
| 1880 | Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer |
| 1879 | Beals C Wright, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1905 |
| 1879 | Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer |
| 1878 | Anton Lajovic, composer |
| 1876 | Carlo Gatti, composer |
| 1875 | Carter G Woodson, New Canton, Virginia, American historian, black studies |
| 1875 | Carter G. Woodson, American Historian |
| 1869 | Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist, Homer |
| 1868 | Eleanor Porter, American Novelist |
| 1865 | Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist, Indo-European Grammar |
| 1865 | Minnie Maddern Fiske, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actress, Henrik Ibsen's plays |
| 1865 | Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint |
| 1864 | Adolf Sandberger, composer |
| 1861 | Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator |
| 1861 | Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno |
| 1852 | A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907 |
| 1849 | Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation |
| 1837 | John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1836 | Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator, PTA |
| 1832 | John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone |
| 1825 | George Frederick Bristow, composer |
| 1824 | Hercules Robinson, Ire, South Africa Commissioner, 1880-89, 1895-97 |
| 1821 | Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader |
| 1819 | James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1817 | James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1814 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865 |
| 1814 | Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer |
| 1813 | Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone |
| 1809 | Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont, life cycle of tapeworms |
| 1797 | Josef Theodor Krov, composer |
| 1796 | Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright |
| 1792 | [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal |
| 1790 | William Parry, England, Arctic explorer |
| 1783 | Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician, Brianchon's theorem |
| 1779 | Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris, France, engraver |
| 1778 | Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette |
| 1753 | John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher, Jeffersonian Democracy |
| 1744 | Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland |
| 1723 | Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother |
| 1683 | Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain, 1700-24, 24-46 |
| 1676 | Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris, France, composer/organist |
| 1498 | Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist |
| 1036 | Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher |
December 19th Deaths in History | |
| 2004 | Renata Tebaldi, opera singer, dies at 82 |
| 2003 | Hope Lange, actress, movie version of Peyton Place, dies at 70 |
| 2000 | Robert Buck, rock guitarist/songwriter, ", 10,000 Maniacs, ", dies at 42 |
| 2000 | John Lindsay, American Politician |
| 1999 | Desmond Llewelyn, actor, Q in many James Bond movies, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 |
| 1997 | Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39 |
| 1993 | Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47 |
| 1993 | Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49 |
| 1991 | Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70 |
| 1990 | Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71 |
| 1990 | Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher |
| 1989 | Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Virginia C. Andrews, American Author |
| 1982 | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71 |
| 1982 | Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1979 | Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian |
| 1977 | Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 |
| 1968 | Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78 |
| 1966 | Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 |
| 1959 | Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117 |
| 1957 | John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56 |
| 1953 | Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 |
| 1953 | Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51 |
| 1945 | John Amery, British Politician |
| 1941 | L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle |
| 1939 | Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70 |
| 1939 | Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57 |
| 1925 | Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1915 | Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 |
| 1914 | Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 |
| 1911 | John Bigelow, American Lawyer |
| 1867 | Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1851 | J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76 |
| 1851 | J. M. W. Turner, English Artist |
| 1848 | Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77 |
| 1848 | Emily Bronte, English Novelist |
| 1823 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1815 | Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1815 | Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1810 | Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1804 | Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies |
| 1800 | Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1798 | Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 |
| 1749 | Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1741 | Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies |
| 1614 | Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1370 | Urban V, Guillaume de Grimoard, 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies |
| 401 | Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies |
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