Born on September 19
September 19 birthdays & history
If you were born on September 19, you share a birthday with Jeremy Irons, Henry III of France and Masatoshi Koshiba. September 19 babies are Virgo, with sapphire as their birthstone and the aster as their birth flower. September 19 is the 263rd day of the year in leap years (262nd in other years).
Famous people born on September 19
- 1948Jeremy Irons, English actor, winner of multiple accolades (Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe)
- 1551Henry III of France, King of France from 1574 to 1589
- 1926Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1977Ryan Dusick, American musician and record producer
- 1985Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor
- 1921Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic
- 1922Emil Zátopek, Czech runner
- 1974Jimmy Fallon, American comedian, television host, actor, singer, writer, and producer
- 1990Kieran Trippier, English footballer
- 1963David Seaman, English footballer
What happened on September 19
- 1846Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France, shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1846Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
- 1852Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
- 1893New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.
- 1926Football stadium San Siro is inaugurated in Milan, Italy
- 1946The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
- 1960Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Indus Waters Treaty for the control and management of the Indus, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers.
- 1970The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
- 1978The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
- 1982Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
- 2011Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career leader in saves.
- 2023Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.
Also observed on September 19
- Armed Forces Day (Chile)
- Day of the First Public Appearance of the Slovak National Council
- Second day of Fiestas Patrias (Chile)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United Kingdom in 1983.
Questions, answered
What star sign is September 19?
People born on September 19 are Virgo. Their birthstone is sapphire and their birth flower is the aster.
Which famous people were born on September 19?
Jeremy Irons (1948), Henry III of France (1551), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Ryan Dusick (1977), Song Joong-ki (1985), Paulo Freire (1921) were all born on September 19.
What happened on September 19 in history?
Among other things: in 1982, Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system; in 2011, Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career leader in saves; in 2023, Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.
Can I get a newspaper front page from September 19?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any September 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, “September 19”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.