Born on July 19
July 19 birthdays & history
If you were born on July 19, you share a birthday with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Edgar Degas and Freddy Moore. July 19 babies are Cancer, with ruby as their birthstone and the larkspur as their birth flower. July 19 is the 201st day of the year in leap years (200th in other years).
Famous people born on July 19
- 1893Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet
- 1834Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator
- 1950Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1947Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
- 1976Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
- 1921Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1898Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher
- 1971Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kyiv
- 1814Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company
- 1819Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright
What happened on July 19
- 1553Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England, deposing Lady Jane Grey after nine days of de facto rule.
- 1817Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire.
- 1821Coronation of George IV as King of the United Kingdom.
- 1832The 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.
- 1843Brunel'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.
- 1848The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
- 1900The first line of the Paris Metro opens for operation.
- 1903French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
- 1952Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1957The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.
- 2013The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance, for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
- 2024Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
Also observed on July 19
- Palace Day
- Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
Questions, answered
What star sign is July 19?
People born on July 19 are Cancer. Their birthstone is ruby and their birth flower is the larkspur.
Which famous people were born on July 19?
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Edgar Degas (1834), Freddy Moore (1950), Brian May (1947), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921) were all born on July 19.
What happened on July 19 in history?
Among other things: in 1957, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published; in 2013, The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance, for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn"; in 2024, Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
Can I get a newspaper front page from July 19?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any July 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, “July 19”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.