Born on January 19
January 19 birthdays & history
If you were born on January 19, you share a birthday with Edgar Allan Poe, James Watt and Paul Cézanne. January 19 babies are Capricorn, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on January 19
- 1809Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic
- 1736James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer
- 1839Paul Cézanne, French painter
- 1798Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher
- 1946Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1807Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general
- 1943Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter
- 1980Jenson Button, English racing driver
- 1912Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic
What happened on January 19
- 1795The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
- 1853Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1883The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1899Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1909A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in northern California to his brother John for $10 ($358.33 in .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}2025).
- 1920The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
- 1920The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1937Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1953Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1966Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.
- 2007A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
- 2012The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
Also observed on January 19
- Husband's Day (Iceland)
- Kokborok Day (Tripura, India)
Questions, answered
What star sign is January 19?
People born on January 19 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.
Which famous people were born on January 19?
Edgar Allan Poe (1809), James Watt (1736), Paul Cézanne (1839), Auguste Comte (1798), Dolly Parton (1946), Robert E. Lee (1807) were all born on January 19.
What happened on January 19 in history?
Among other things: in 1966, Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister; in 2007, A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot; in 2012, The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
Can I get a newspaper front page from January 19?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 19 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 19”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.