What happened on October 19 ?
Deaths
727 - Saint Frideswide
1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1992 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920)
1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
2003 - Faith Fancher, American television journalist and activist (b. 1950)
2003 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist and inventor of the APL programming language (b. 1920)
2005 - Dallas Cook, A trombone player in third-wave ska band Suburban Legends (b. 1982)
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