April 19
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[edit] Births
- 1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
- 1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
- 1603 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
- 1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
- 1665 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- 1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
- 1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
- 1721 - Thomas McKean, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
- 1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
- 1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
- 1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
- 1883 - Richard von Mises, mathematician (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
- 1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1897 - Constance Talmadge, actress (d. 1973)
- 1899 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Richard Hughes, novelist (d. 1976)
- 1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
- 1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographher
- 1922 - Erich Hartmann, pilot
- 1925 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor
- 1928 - Alexis Korner, musician (d. 1984)
- 1930 - Dick Sargent, actor (d. 1994)
- 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1933 - Dickie Bird, cricket umpire
- 1935 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
- 1936 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
- 1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and President of the Philippines
- 1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize
- 1944 - Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (P Funk)
- 1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
- 1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
- 1952 - Alexis Arguello, boxer
- 1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality
- 1960 - Frank Viola, baseball player
- 1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
- 1962 - Al Unser, Jr., race car driver
- 1965 - Suge Knight, record producer
- 1967 - Steven H Silver, science fiction editor
- 1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
- 1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
- 1968 - Ashley Judd, actress
- 1970 - Kelly Holmes, athlete
- 1970 - Luis Miguel, singer
- 1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian Cricketer
- 1978 - James Franco, American actor
- 1979 - Kate Hudson, actress
- 1981 - Hayden Christensen, actor
- 1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress
- 1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
