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Holidays & Observances Burmese Martyrs' Day, Liberation Day (Nicaragua) Events Seneca Falls Convention, Mister World 2016 Famous birthdays Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Padalecki, Jon Jones, Shane Dawson, Romee Strijd

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July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

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Events

484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.

711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.

998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.

1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.

1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.

1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.

1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.

1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.

1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

1817 – Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.

1821 – Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.

1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.

1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.

1848 – Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.

1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.

1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.

1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.

1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.

1940 – Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II, that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.

1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.

1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.

1943 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.

1947 – Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.

1947 – Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.

1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.

1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

1972 – Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.

1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

1980 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, opened in Moscow, Soviet Union.

1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.

1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

1989 – United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.

1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort

1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

2014 – Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

Births

810 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (d. 870)

1670 – Richard Leveridge, English singer-songwriter (d. 1758)

1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary and painter (d. 1766)

1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author and poet (d. 1806)

1759 – Marianna Auenbrugger, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1782)

1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (d. 1833)

1771 – Thomas Talbot, Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (d. 1853)

1789 – John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (d. 1854)

1800 – Juan José Flores, Venezuelan general and politician, 1st President of Ecuador (d. 1864)

1814 – Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)

1819 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (d. 1890)

1822 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)

1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (d. 1857)

1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1917)

1842 – Frederic T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)

1849 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French scholar and critic (d. 1906)

1865 – Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer (d. 1933)

1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)

1868 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator (d. 1945)

1869 – Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (d. 1927)

1876 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)

1877 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)

1881 – Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (d. 1963)

1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)

1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957)

1888 – Enno Lolling, German physician (d. 1945)

1890 – George II of Greece (d. 1947)

1892 – Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)

1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1930)

1894 – Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)

1894 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)

1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969)

1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and academic (d. 1953)

1896 – Reginald Baker, English film producer (d. 1985)

1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (d. 1981)

1896 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor (d. 1977)

1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1979)

1899 – Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1979)

1902 – Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1904 – Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer and farmer (d. 1985)

1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)

1909 – Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author (d. 2004)

1914 – Marius Russo, American baseball player (d. 2005)

1916 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)

1917 – William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2013)

1919 – Patricia Medina, English-American actress (d. 2012)

1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (d. 2005)

1919 – Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (d. 2015)

1920 – Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor

1920 – Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (d. 2015)

1921 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (d. 2013)

1921 – André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (d. 1993)

1921 – Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright

1921 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1922 – George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, and politician (d. 2012)

1923 – Theo Barker, English historian (d. 2001)

1923 – Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (d. 2004)

1923 – William A. Rusher, American lawyer and journalist (d. 2011)

1923 – Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)

1924 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2005)

1924 – Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (d. 2009)

1924 – Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1925 – Sue Thompson, American singer

1926 – Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer

1929 – Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H.

1930 – Darko Suvin, Croatian-Canadian critic and academic

1932 – Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)

1932 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish biologist and photographer (d. 1987)

1934 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)

1935 – Nick Koback, American baseball player and golfer (d. 2015)

1936 – David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist and academic

1937 – George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)

1938 – Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)

1938 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist and astronomer

1938 – Tom Raworth, English poet and academic

1941 – Vikki Carr, American singer and actress

1941 – Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

1943 – Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor and academic

1944 – Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (d. 1986)

1944 – Andres Vooremaa, Estonian chess player

1945 – Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter

1945 – George Dzundza, German-American actor

1946 – Stephen Coonts, American lawyer and author

1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer and bass player

1946 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player and politician

1947 – André Forcier, Canadian director and screenwriter

1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, German footballer and manager

1947 – Bernie Leadon, American guitarist and songwriter

1947 – Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist

1948 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 1980)

1950 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance

1950 – Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 – Adrian Noble, English director and screenwriter

1951 – Abel Ferrara, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1952 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1990)

1952 – Nancy Folbre, American economist and academic

1952 – Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer

1954 – Alvan Adams, American basketball player

1954 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (d. 2012)

1954 – Steve O'Donnell, American screenwriter and producer

1954 – Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist and historian

1955 – Roger Binny, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

1955 – Dalton McGuinty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Ontario

1956 – K. A. Applegate, American author

1956 – Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (d. 2012)

1958 – Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2013)

1958 – Robert Gibson, American wrestler

1958 – David Robertson, American conductor

1959 – Juan J. Campanella, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter

1960 – Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter

1960 – Kevin Haskins, English drummer and songwriter

1961 – Harsha Bhogle, Indian journalist and author

1961 – Maria Filatova, Russian gymnast

1961 – Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian, actress, and author

1961 – Benoît Mariage, Belgian director and screenwriter

1961 – Hideo Nakata, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter

1961 – Campbell Scott, American actor, director, and producer

1962 – Anthony Edwards, American actor and director

1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author

1964 – Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver

1964 – Mark Wigglesworth, English conductor

1965 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish musician

1965 – Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer and manager

1967 – Yael Abecassis, Israeli model and actress

1967 – Jean-François Mercier, Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host

1968 – Robb Flynn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1968 – Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and manager

1968 – Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author

1969 – Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer

1970 – Bill Chen, American poker player and software designer

1970 – Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland

1971 – Rene Busch, Estonian tennis player and coach

1971 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kiev

1971 – Michael Modest, American wrestler

1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer and manager

1973 – Martin Powell, English keyboard player and songwriter

1973 – Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1974 – Rey Bucanero, Mexican wrestler

1974 – Francisco Copado, German footballer and manager

1974 – Josée Piché, Canadian ice dancer

1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player

1974 – Preston Wilson, American baseball player and sportscaster

1975 – Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer

1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

1976 – Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer and manager

1977 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player

1977 – Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager

1977 – Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer

1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist

1979 – Rick Ankiel, American baseball player

1979 – Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

1979 – Luke Young, English footballer

1980 – Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player

1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver

1981 – Nenê, Brazilian footballer

1981 – David Bernard, Jamaican cricketer

1981 – Mark Gasnier, Australian rugby player

1981 – Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player

1981 – Grégory Vignal, French footballer

1982 – Christopher Bear, American drummer

1982 – Phil Coke, American baseball player

1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor

1982 – Stuart Parnaby, English footballer

1982 – Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer

1983 – Helen Skelton, English television host and actress

1983 – Fedor Tyutin, Russian ice hockey player

1984 – Alessandra De Rossi, English-Filipino actress

1984 – Kaitlin Doubleday, American actress

1984 – Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator and director

1984 – Matthias Laurenz Gräff, Austrian painter

1984 – Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer

1984 – Adam Morrison, American basketball player

1984 – Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – Lewis Price, Welsh footballer

1985 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player

1985 – Zhou Haibin, Chinese footballer

1985 – Marina Kuzina, Russian basketball player

1985 – Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (d. 2015)

1986 – Leandro Greco, Italian footballer

1987 – Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist

1987 – Marc Murphy, Australian footballer

1988 – Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor

1988 – Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player

1991 – Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer

1992 – Jake Nicholson, English footballer

Deaths

514 – Pope Symmachus

806 – Li Shigu, Chinese general (b. 778)

998 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine general (b. 940)

1030 – Adalberon, bishop of Laon

1234 – Floris IV, Count of Holland (b. 1210)

1249 – Jacopo Tiepolo, Doge of Venice

1333 – John Campbell, Earl of Atholl

1333 – Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick

1333 – Sir Archibald Douglas, Scottish nobleman

1333 – Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox

1333 – Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland

1374 – Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1304)

1415 – Philippa of Lancaster (b. 1359)

1543 – Mary Boleyn, English daughter of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1499)

1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1550)

1742 – William Somervile, English poet and author (b. 1675)

1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1776)

1814 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (b. 1774)

1824 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican general and emperor (b. 1783)

1838 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (b. 1785)

1850 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (b. 1810)

1855 – Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet and translator (b. 1787)

1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (b. 1796)

1868 – Okita Sōji, Japanese captain (b. 1844)

1878 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1847)

1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American publisher and religious leader (b. 1859)

1913 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1852)

1925 – John Indermaur, British lawyer (b. 1851)

1933 – Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1863)

1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and author (b. 1850)

1943 – Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (b. 1916)

1947 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (b. 1898)

1947 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician (b. 1915)

1947 – Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (b. 1886)

1963 – William Andrew, English priest (b. 1884)

1965 – Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875)

1967 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1884)

1969 – Stratis Myrivilis, Greek soldier and author (b. 1890)

1974 – Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)

1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)

1977 – Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b. 1912)

1980 – Margaret Craven, American journalist and author (b. 1901)

1980 – Nihat Erim, Turkish jurist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)

1980 – Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1904)

1981 – Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)

1982 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)

1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)

1985 – Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)

1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)

1990 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)

1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1940)

1994 – Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)

1998 – Elmer Valo, Polish-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1921)

2002 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)

2002 – Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)

2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)

2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1908)

2004 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b. 1902)

2004 – Francis A. Marzen, American priest and journalist (b. 1924)

2004 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)

2005 – Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)

2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)

2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1945)

2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (b. 1944)

2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedian and actress (b. 1907)

2009 – Frank McCourt, American author and educator (b. 1930)

2009 – Henry Surtees, English race car driver (b. 1991)

2010 – Cécile Aubry, French actress, author, television screenwriter and director (b. 1928)

2010 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (b. 1917)

2012 – Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and playwright (b. 1948)

2012 – Tom Davis, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1952)

2012 – Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (b. 1912)

2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (b. 1935)

2012 – Sylvia Woods, American businesswoman, co-founded Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem (b. 1926)

2012 – Valiulla Yakupov, Islamic cleric (b. 1963)

2013 – Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1973)

2013 – Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1931)

2013 – Mel Smith, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1952)

2013 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (b. 1923)

2013 – Phil Woosnam, Welsh-American soccer player and manager (b. 1932)

2013 – Peter Ziegler, Swiss geologist and academic (b. 1928)

2013 – Leyla Erbil, Turkish author (b. 1931)

2014 – David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (b. 1917)

2014 – Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician and author (b. 1933)

2014 – James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)

2014 – Ray King, English footballer and manager (b. 1924)

2014 – John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (b. 1919)

2015 – Van Alexander, American composer and conductor (b. 1915)

2015 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (b. 1948)

2015 – Carmino Ravosa, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1930)

2015 – Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian journalist and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Duma (b. 1947)

2016 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Arsenius (Catholic Church)

Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht

Justa and Rufina

Kirdjun

Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great

Symmachus

July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Martyrs' Day (Burma)

Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

References

July 19 Wikipedia

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