On This Day — May 19

Abraham Pais

1918 – 2000

Aleksandr Stepanovich Osipenko

1910 – 1991

Alfredo Barnechea

b. 1952

Alice Roberts

b. 1973

Daniil Dondurey

1947 – 2017

Dieter Reiter

b. 1958

Edmond Bour

1832 – 1866

Edward de Bono

1933 – 2021

Felix Otto

b. 1966

Georgy Arbatov

1923 – 2010

Gitanas Nausėda

b. 1964

Gregorio Marañón

1887 – 1960

Günter M. Ziegler

b. 1963

Harvey Cox

b. 1929

Helen Quinn

b. 1943

James Gosling

b. 1955

John M. Ball

b. 1948

Krzysztof Mieszkowski

b. 1956

Manley Ottmer Hudson

1886 – 1960

Max Perutz

1914 – 2002

Oleg Matytsin

b. 1964

Oliver Letwin

b. 1956

Pavel Chikov

b. 1978

Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

1767 – 1837

Roger Temam

b. 1940

Rudolf E. Kálmán

1930 – 2016

Serge Lang

1927 – 2005

Sergey Mergelyan

1928 – 2008

Stanislaw Knapowski

1931 – 1967

Stefan Błachowski

1889 – 1962

Teresa Ribera

b. 1969

Theodor Zincke

1843 – 1928

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

1860 – 1952

Vittorio Grilli

b. 1957

Vladimir Khodyrev

1930 – 2024

Volodymyr Stretovych

1958 – 2023

Yosef Ahimeir

b. 1943

Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob

1923 – 1999

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky

1852 – 1927

Alexander Beglov

b. 1956

Alexander Zaitsev

1945 – 2021

Alfred Laliberté

1878 – 1953

Alfred Schmidt

1931 – 2012

Ali Nobakht

b. 1948

Alina Cała

b. 1953

Ana María Pérez del Campo

b. 1936

Anthony Forster

b. 1964

Antonín Jan Jungmann

1775 – 1854

Arthur Myers

1868 – 1926

Asghar Aghamohammadi

b. 1951

Ashraf Ghani

b. 1949

Ay-O

b. 1931

Barry Beyerstein

1947 – 2007

Beibut Bakirovich Atamkulov

b. 1964

Berl Lazar

b. 1964

Bernadotte Everly Schmitt

1886 – 1969

Blair Lee III

1916 – 1985

Blanka Waleská

1910 – 1986

Boris Vasilchikov

1860 – 1931

Brian E. Harrison

b. 1982

Buruji Kashamu

1958 – 2020

Cecil McBee

b. 1935

Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth

1752 – 1825

Cheng Wei

b. 1983

Christopher Chope

b. 1947

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

1744 – 1792

Count Nikolay Adlerberg

1819 – 1892

Danish Siddiqui

1983 – 2021

Dante Livio Bianco

1909 – 1953

Danuta Jazłowiecka

b. 1957

Dick Scobee

1939 – 1986

Domenico Prattichizzo

b. 1965

Dudley Digges

1583 – 1639

Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby

1798 – 1882

Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

1812 – 1871

Eric Teed

1926 – 2010

Erin Phillips

b. 1985

Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka

b. 1949

Fedor Zaytsev

b. 1963

Francis Biddle

1886 – 1968

Frank J. Grass

b. 1951

Gadi Eisenkot

b. 1960

Gennady Makanin

1938 – 2017

George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley

1883 – 1968

George Leveson-Gower

1858 – 1951

George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing

1826 – 1894

Gerd Bucerius

1906 – 1995

Gerwald Claus-Brunner

1972 – 2016

Gino Loria

1862 – 1954

Girish Karnad

1938 – 2019

Gregor W. Yeates

1944 – 2012

Hala Helmy Al-Saeed

b. 1957

Harald J. W. Müller-Kirsten

b. 1935

Heinz Oberhummer

1941 – 2015

Henrik Meinander

b. 1960

Ho Chi Minh

1890 – 1969

Homer A. Jack

1916 – 1993

Huda Akil

b. 1945

Igor Judge, Baron Judge

1941 – 2023

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan

b. 1938

Iva Janžurová

b. 1941

Iwao Matsuda

1937 – 2022

Jaan Talts

b. 1944

James Bilbray

1938 – 2021

Jean-Louis de Rambures

1930 – 2006

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

1762 – 1814

Johann Rafelski

b. 1950

John D. Waihee III

b. 1946

John Fillmore Hayford

1868 – 1925

John Jacob Abel

1857 – 1938

John Vachon

1914 – 1975

John Willingham

1932 – 2013

Jonas Poher Rasmussen

b. 1981

Jonathan Dee

b. 1962

Jonathan Marchini

b. 1973

Jorge Alessandri

1896 – 1986

Joseph Maria von Radowitz

1839 – 1912

Joseph Marie de Pernety

1766 – 1856

Joseph W. Estabrook

1944 – 2012

José Antonio Chang

b. 1958

José Luis Abellán García-González

1933 – 2023

Juhan Peegel

1919 – 2007

Júlio Dantas

1876 – 1962

Karel van het Reve

1921 – 1999

Kathleen Passidomo

b. 1953

Khofifah Indar Parawansa

b. 1965

Kitarō Nishida

1870 – 1945

Knut Agathon Wallenberg

1853 – 1938

Krzysztof Tchórzewski

b. 1950

Lars Andreas Oftedahl

1781 – 1843

Laurent Furst

b. 1965

Leonid Leonov

1899 – 1994

Liudas Mažylis

b. 1954

Louis B. Slichter

1896 – 1978

Majlinda Bregu

b. 1974

Marko Kilpi

b. 1969

Martin Lutz

b. 1950

Merle G. Kearns

1938 – 2014

Mikhail Kamensky

1738 – 1809

Mikhail Tikhomirov

1893 – 1965

Mindia Ugrekhelidze

b. 1942

Mitja Ribičič

1919 – 2013

Morton W. Bloomfield

1913 – 1987

Mūza Rubackytė

b. 1959

Natalya Melik Melikyan

1906 – 1989

Nick DiGiovanni

b. 1996

Nikolai Skomorokhov

1920 – 1994

Nora Ephron

1941 – 2012

Orla Lehmann

1810 – 1870

Otto Ambros

1901 – 1990

Patrick O'Reilly

1900 – 1988

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour

1827 – 1896

Peter Bowness, Baron Bowness

b. 1943

Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill

b. 1953

Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath

b. 1949

Pierre J. Thuot

b. 1955

Pol Pot

1925 – 1998

Ralph Landau

1916 – 2004

Reginald Lister

1865 – 1912

Richard Pakenham

1797 – 1868

Richard Taylor

b. 1962

Ritt Bjerregaard

1941 – 2023

Robert Kilroy-Silk

b. 1942

Robin Campbell Allshire

b. 1960

Roelof van Laar

b. 1981

Rolf Dahlgrün

1908 – 1969

Ruth Ella Moore

1903 – 1994

Sergey Vasilyevich Kravkov

1893 – 1951

Sharon Marcus

b. 1966

Sophie Davant

b. 1963

Sophie Thevenoux

b. 1957

Sven Thofelt

1904 – 1993

Tenney Frank

1876 – 1939

Theo de Raadt

b. 1968

Valmont Martin

1875 – 1935

Veran Matić

b. 1962

Viacheslav Samodurov

b. 1974

Vittorio Prodi

1937 – 2023

Vladimir Pligin

b. 1960

Waldo K. Lyon

1914 – 1998

William H. Stewart

1921 – 2008

William J. Crawford

1918 – 2000

William King Gregory

1876 – 1970

Wiwen Nilsson

1897 – 1974

Zdena Studenková

b. 1954

Aarne Ervi

1910 – 1977

Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin

b. 1985

Adil Karaismailoğlu

b. 1969

Adrien Lachenal

1849 – 1918

Ahmed Reda Benchemsi

b. 1974

Akaki Chkhenkeli

1874 – 1959

Alan Melville

1910 – 1983

Albert David

1867 – 1950

Albert William Atwater

1856 – 1929

Alex Easton

b. 1969

Alexander Y. Panchin

b. 1986

Alfred Meusel

1896 – 1960

Alfred Sharpe

1853 – 1935

Ameen Nayfeh

b. 1988

Amy Adams

b. 1971

Joseph Larmor

1857 – 1942

Alfred Baudrillart

1859 – 1942

Barney Frank

1940 – 2026

Charles Bagot

1781 – 1843

Dale Dehaven Myers

1922 – 2015

Ebrahim Raisi

1960 – 2024

Francis Maseres

1731 – 1824

Hans Mayer

1907 – 2001

Holger Forchhammer

1866 – 1946

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

1929 – 1994

Julio César Trujillo

1931 – 2019

Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

1856 – 1912

Paul Schultze-Naumburg

1869 – 1949

Shigeru Nambara

1889 – 1974

Takaharu Mitsui

1900 – 1983

William Ewart Gladstone

1809 – 1898

Zygmunt Ziembiński

1920 – 1996

Ahmet Ağaoğlu

1869 – 1939

Alphonse Hasselmans

1845 – 1912

Auguste Molinier

1851 – 1904

B. C. Khanduri

1934 – 2026

Bernard Lewis

1916 – 2018

Bernhard Dorn

1805 – 1881

Booth Tarkington

1869 – 1946

Bruno Siebert

1933 – 2024

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

1661 – 1715

Claude Villeneuve

1954 – 2024

Dick Kuiper

1938 – 2024

Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen

1873 – 1953

Dževad Karahasan

1953 – 2023

Ebara Soroku

1842 – 1922

Edward Douglass White Jr.

1845 – 1921

Ella Stack

1929 – 2023

Ernst Sieber

1927 – 2018

Eurico Dias Nogueira

1923 – 2014

Ferdinand Hodler

1853 – 1918

Frederick Barton Maurice

1871 – 1951

Garret FitzGerald

1926 – 2011

George Harris, 1st Baron Harris

1746 – 1829

Gerald Götting

1923 – 2015

Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer

1801 – 1876

H. Bruce Franklin

1934 – 2024

Hans Wiegel

1941 – 2025

Harrison White

1930 – 2024

Heinrich Quincke

1842 – 1922

Heinz-Helmich van Schewick

1940 – 2026

Herbert York

1921 – 2009

Hiroya Ino

1891 – 1980

Jacques Ellul

1912 – 1994

Jadunath Sarkar

1870 – 1958

Jean Rey

1902 – 1983

Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

1793 – 1831

John Betjeman

1906 – 1984

John Gorton

1911 – 2002

John Moorfield

1943 – 2018

Joseph Swain

1857 – 1927

Juan Bautista Fuenmayor

1905 – 1998

Jules Anspach

1829 – 1879

Jørgen Brunchorst

1862 – 1917

Kim Shin

1922 – 2016

Lola Ridge

1873 – 1941

Martin Amis

1949 – 2023

Mei Yiqi

1889 – 1962

Michael Kpakala Francis

1936 – 2013

Morley Safer

1931 – 2016

Nima Varasteh

1979 – 2014

Oran Milo Roberts

1815 – 1898

Pedro Itriago Chacín

1875 – 1936

Peter Hollingworth

1935 – 2026

Philipp Bouhler

1899 – 1945

Pierre-Paul Guieysse

1841 – 1914

Pierre-Émile Martin

1824 – 1915

Pyotr Albedinski

1826 – 1883

René de Chambrun

1906 – 2002

Robert F. Furchgott

1916 – 2009

Robert S. Wistrich

1945 – 2015

Robert Sinclair Dietz

1914 – 1995

Robert Weitbrecht

1920 – 1983

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

1874 – 1941

Samuel Matheson

1852 – 1942

Signe Marie Stray Ryssdal

1924 – 2019

Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet

1758 – 1838

Stanislav Petrov

1939 – 2017

Sōsuke Uno

1922 – 1998

T. E. Lawrence

1888 – 1935

Tapio Wirkkala

1915 – 1985

Valentín Paz-Andrade

1898 – 1987

Wiranto Arismunandar

1933 – 2021

Yury Grigorovich

1927 – 2025

Aaron Henry

1922 – 1997

Aaron Shenk Kreider

1863 – 1929

Abel Herzberg

1893 – 1989

Abhakara Kiartivongse

1880 – 1923

Adolf Dehn

1895 – 1968

Agostino Novello

1240 – 1309

Alan Howard

1905 – 1966

Albert Kivikas

1898 – 1978

Albin Polasek

1879 – 1965

Alcuin

724 – 804

Aleksandrs Golubovs

1959 – 2010

Alexander Hope

1769 – 1837

Alice Bradley Sheldon

1915 – 1987

Alphonse de Neuville

1836 – 1885

Amos W. Barber

1861 – 1915

Anna Estelle Glancy

1883 – 1975

Annie Glenn

1920 – 2020

Antanas Šurna

1940 – 2014

Anthony Sparrow

1612 – 1685

Antoine Boutros Arida

1863 – 1955

Antonio Fernández-Rañada

1939 – 2022

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria

1833 – 1896

Ashbel Green

1762 – 1848

August Kluckhohn

1832 – 1893

Augusto Góngora

1952 – 2023

Augustus N. Summers

1856 – 1927

Aviad Yafeh

1923 – 1977

Batya Gur

1947 – 2005

Behçet Uz

1893 – 1986

Belva Ann Lockwood

1830 – 1917

Benjamin Baker

1840 – 1907

Benjamin Guinness

1798 – 1868

Benjamin Joseph Franklin

1839 – 1898

Benjamin W. Fortson Jr.

1904 – 1979

Bert J. Harris, Jr.

1919 – 2019

Bob Boozer

1937 – 2012

Bolesław Prus

1847 – 1912

Brian Booth

1933 – 2023

Bruce Lundvall

1935 – 2015

Button Gwinnett

1735 – 1777

C. W. R. Knight

1884 – 1957

Carl Snoilsky

1841 – 1903

Carlos Altamirano

1922 – 2019

Cevdet Kerim İncedayı

1893 – 1951

Charles C. Hagemeister

1946 – 2021

Charles Ives

1874 – 1954

Charles Odamtten Easmon

1913 – 1994

Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning

1728 – 1810

Christoffel Brand

1797 – 1875

Claude Weaver

1867 – 1954

Cyril Clowes

1892 – 1968

Czesław Janczarski

1911 – 1971

Daniel Webster Comstock

1840 – 1917

Darío Alessandro

1951 – 2021

David Hummell Greer

1844 – 1919

David Luenberger

1937 – 2026

Dean Eyre

1914 – 2007

Donald Avenson

1944 – 2017

Dorothy Donegan

1922 – 1998

E. K. Nayanar

1918 – 2004

Edmond J. Gong

1930 – 2015

Edward Kent

1802 – 1877

Edward Roy Becker

1933 – 2006

Eiler Hagerup

1736 – 1795

Elias Owen

1833 – 1899

Evelyn Chesky

1933 – 2025

Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov

1933 – 2000

F. M. Powicke

1879 – 1963

Feliks Franciszek Loyko

1717 – 1779

Ferdinando Ughelli

1595 – 1670

Filippo Cremonesi

1872 – 1942

Francesco Loredan

1685 – 1762

Frank Darling

1850 – 1923

Frank Wall

1868 – 1950

Franz-Paul Decker

1923 – 2014

François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny

1737 – 1821

Gary Blodgett

1937 – 2021

Geoffrey Whiskard

1886 – 1957

George G. Sill

1829 – 1907

George Kennion

1845 – 1922

George W. Malone

1890 – 1961

Halvard Lange

1902 – 1970

Hans Rebel

1861 – 1940

Harry Skinner

1855 – 1929

Harvey Hall

1941 – 2018

Hector Macpherson

1888 – 1956

Henri Rivière

1827 – 1883

Henrik Tikkanen

1924 – 1984

Herb Wilkinson

1923 – 2026

Hideji Hōjō

1902 – 1996

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

1964 – 2024

Huang Wenhu

1926 – 2022

Hugh Gall

1888 – 1938

Ignác Jan Hanuš

1812 – 1869

Isaac Ben-Aharon

1906 – 2006

Ivo of Kermartin

1253 – 1303

Jack Brabham

1926 – 2014

James Boswell

1740 – 1795

James Newton Rodney Moore

1905 – 1985

James Stone

1810 – 1888

James W. Dunbar

1860 – 1943

Jan Bagiński

1932 – 2019

Jan Długosz

1415 – 1480

Jean Baptiste, marquis de Traversay

1754 – 1831

Jean-Louis Comolli

1941 – 2022

Jeffrey Catherine Jones

1944 – 2011

Jeremiah Dummer

1681 – 1739

Jim Otto

1938 – 2024

Jindřich Uzel

1868 – 1946

Joe Trees

1869 – 1943

John Beradino

1917 – 1996