What happened on May 19 ?

804 - Alcuin, English monk (b. c. 735)

988 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)

1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois

1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)

1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)

1319 - Louis d'ÿvreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)

1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)

1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)

1531 - Jan ?aski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)

1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England (executed)

1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer

1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)

1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)

1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman

1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)

1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)

1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)

1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)

1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)

1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)

1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)

1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)

1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)

1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)

1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)

1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)

1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)

1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)

1912 - Boles?aw Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)

1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)

1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888)

1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)

1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)

1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)

1958 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)

1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777)

1969 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)

1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)

1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)

1984 - John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)

1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)

1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)

1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)

1998 - Uno Sosuke, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)

2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)

2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)

2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)

2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)

2006 - Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink, oldest Dutch citizen (b. 1895)

2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)