On This Day — December 19
3824 noted people were born and 1996 died on December 19 in our archive, including Mykola Rudenko, Adolf Ivan Dobrjanský and Albert Abraham Michelson.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 19
Mykola Rudenko
1920 – 2004
Adolf Ivan Dobrjanský
1817 – 1901
Albert Abraham Michelson
1852 – 1931
Albert Wohlstetter
1913 – 1997
Alexander I. Boldyrev
b. 1951
Anne Anastasi
1908 – 2001
Antoine Louis Dugès
1797 – 1838
Antonio Caso
1883 – 1946
Barry Mazur
b. 1937
Bernhard Vogel
1932 – 2025
Carter Godwin Woodson
1875 – 1950
Charles Fitzpatrick
1851 – 1942
Charles Julien Brianchon
1783 – 1864
Claudine Hermann
1945 – 2021
David Harbater
b. 1952
Donald L. Klein
1930 – 2025
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
1916 – 2010
Eric Allin Cornell
b. 1961
François Perroux
1903 – 1987
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer
b. 1955
Galina Volchek
1933 – 2019
Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin
1845 – 1904
Hina Jilani
b. 1953
Jean-Antoine Nollet
1700 – 1770
John Godfrey
1942 – 2023
José Ángel González Jiménez
b. 1959
Konstantin Konik
1873 – 1936
Martin Stropnický
b. 1956
Michael E. Fossum
b. 1957
Mitchell Feigenbaum
1944 – 2019
Nikolay Mikhailovich Volkov
b. 1951
Paul Baudouin
1894 – 1964
Peter Ludvig Panum
1820 – 1885
Reyes Maroto
b. 1973
Richard Leakey
1944 – 2022
Richard S. Hamilton
1943 – 2024
Robert Osserman
1926 – 2011
Ronald Hutton
b. 1953
Ronan Farrow
b. 1987
Thomas Andrews
1813 – 1885
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis
1899 – 1970
Théophile Homolle
1848 – 1925
Uffe Haagerup
1949 – 2015
Wilhelm His
1863 – 1934
William Christie
b. 1944
Wojciech Polak
b. 1964
Wojciech Zajączkowski
b. 1963
A. B. Yehoshua
1936 – 2022
A.D.G.
1947 – 2004
Abel Bonnard
1883 – 1968
Abigail Johnson
b. 1961
Adina Bar-On
b. 1951
Alain Goriely
b. 1967
Alan Walsh
1916 – 1998
Aleksandr Golitsyn
1773 – 1844
Alyssa Milano
b. 1972
Ann Lewis
b. 1937
Archie Michaelis
1889 – 1975
Arne Fjellbu
1890 – 1962
Artashes Laparitovich Shahinyan
1906 – 1978
Arthur Rosenberg
1889 – 1943
Beatriz Morales-Nin
b. 1951
Blaže Koneski
1921 – 1993
Brandon Sanderson
b. 1975
Bukola Saraki
b. 1962
Carl Joseph Schröter
1855 – 1939
Charles Dancla
1817 – 1907
Chris van Veen
1922 – 2009
Christian Friedrich Neue
1799 – 1886
Craig Symonds
b. 1946
David Rowe-Beddoe, Baron Rowe-Beddoe
1937 – 2023
Deborah Paredez
b. 1970
Dominik Boesl
b. 1983
Douglas Houghton Campbell
1859 – 1953
Earl Hancock Ellis
1880 – 1923
Eckart Altenmüller
b. 1955
Eduardo Serra Rexach
b. 1946
Edward Bernard Raczyński
1891 – 1993
Emmanuel Adamakis
b. 1958
Ernst Stuhlinger
1913 – 2008
Eusebio Bardají y Azara
1776 – 1842
Faraj Garayev
b. 1943
Frans-Jozef van Thiel
1906 – 1993
Gao Yaojie
1927 – 2023
George Mellish
1814 – 1877
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
1828 – 1892
Geronima Pecson
1896 – 1989
Hans Fränkel
1916 – 2003
Heinrich August Winkler
b. 1938
Herb Stempel
1926 – 2020
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
1824 – 1897
Hermann Hirt
1865 – 1936
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
1715 – 1786
Hélène Ruiz Fabri
b. 1960
James L. Jones
b. 1943
Jan de Leeuw
b. 1945
Jean-Pierre Filiu
b. 1961
Jennifer Beals
b. 1963
Jessikka Aro
b. 1980
John Brown
b. 1931
John Graham Nicholls
1929 – 2023
John Lavarack
1885 – 1957
John McSweeney
1890 – 1969
John Skipper
b. 1955
Juan Landázuri Ricketts
1913 – 1997
Julius Vincenz von Krombholz
1782 – 1843
Katō Sadakichi
1861 – 1927
Kazimierz Tymieniecki
1887 – 1968
Kevin Fenton
b. 1966
Kristina Keneally
b. 1968
Lazar Mojsov
1920 – 2011
Lee Myung-bak
b. 1941
Lee Rich
1918 – 2012
Leonid Brezhnev
1906 – 1982
Lisa Wilkinson
b. 1959
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
1897 – 1980
Ludwig Döderlein
1791 – 1863
Lynn N. Rivers
b. 1956
M. Cherif Bassiouni
1937 – 2017
Marcel Brillouin
1854 – 1948
Maria Matios
b. 1959
Marina Zurkow
b. 1962
Martin Hume Johnson
b. 1944
Mervyn O'Gorman
1871 – 1958
Michael Fowler
1929 – 2022
Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez
1895 – 1986
Miloslav Stingl
1930 – 2020
Mohammad Reza Aref
b. 1951
Mulatu Astatke
b. 1943
Mykola Popov
b. 1937
Nathan Oliveira
1928 – 2010
Nicolas Bergeron
1975 – 2024
Nikolai Izmerov
1927 – 2016
Nikolay Antoshkin
1942 – 2021
Norman Lamm
1927 – 2020
Otto Olsson
1879 – 1964
Pablo Macera
1929 – 2020
Pascal Allizard
b. 1962
Paul Dessau
1894 – 1979
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack
1891 – 1974
Peter Gierasch
1940 – 2023
Peter Kwint
b. 1984
Peter Roth
b. 1952
Philip William, Prince of Orange
1554 – 1618
Pratibha Patil
b. 1934
Päivi Räsänen
b. 1959
Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen
1819 – 1905
Richard Alston
b. 1941
Richard Hammond
b. 1969
Rob Portman
b. 1955
Robert M. Kimmitt
b. 1947
Robert Medley
1905 – 1994
Rolf Furuli
b. 1942
Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven
1835 – 1906
Rosanna Vaudetti
b. 1937
Rustam Emomali
b. 1987
Ruthild Hahne
1910 – 2001
Salvador Elizondo
1932 – 2006
Simon McKeon
b. 1955
Skye Kakoschke-Moore
b. 1985
Stanisław Rospond
1906 – 1982
Stephan Harbarth
b. 1971
Steven M. Wise
1950 – 2024
Steven McRae
b. 1985
Susan Lesley Barrell
b. 1953
Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta
b. 1947
Sylwester Kaliski
1925 – 1978
Sándor Szurmay
1860 – 1945
Taizō Nishimuro
1935 – 2017
Teodolinda Barolini
b. 1951
Thaisa Storchi Bergmann
b. 1955
Tiemen Brouwer
1916 – 1977
Tomiaki Fukuda
b. 1941
Turhan Përmeti
1846 – 1927
Upendranath Brahmachari
1873 – 1946
Vitorino Nemésio
1901 – 1978
Vsevolod Tkachuk
b. 1946
Walter Höllerer
1922 – 2003
Wesley Morris
b. 1975
Wilhelm Oncken
1838 – 1905
William DeVries
b. 1943
William G. Batchelder
1942 – 2022
William J. L. Sladen
1920 – 2017
William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket
1864 – 1920
Xue Qikun
b. 1963
Yuliia Paievska
b. 1968
Zheng Zhenduo
1898 – 1958
Ángel Herrera Oria
1886 – 1968
Abdelaziz Ben Dhia
1936 – 2015
Abhakara Kiartivongse
1880 – 1923
Adam Amin
b. 1986
Adolf Sandberger
1864 – 1943
Adrian Smith
b. 1970
Ahmad Tibi
b. 1958
Al Kaline
1934 – 2020
Alan Eustace
b. 1956
Albert Oppel
1831 – 1865
Alfred Nalepa
1856 – 1929
Alfredo Castro
b. 1955
Altus Lacy Quaintance
1870 – 1958
… and 3,624 more
Died on December 19
Balfour Stewart
1828 – 1887
Paul Langevin
1872 – 1946
Robert Homer Simpson
1912 – 2014
Althea Warren
1866 – 1958
Andrei Karlov
1954 – 2016
Antoine Brutus Menier
1795 – 1853
Ed van Thijn
1934 – 2021
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
1934 – 2024
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier
1819 – 1898
Gerard Vissering
1865 – 1937
Herbert C. Brown
1912 – 2004
Hugh Iltis
1925 – 2016
Hugo Münsterberg
1863 – 1916
Ivor Jennings
1903 – 1965
José Antonio Maravall
1911 – 1986
Konrad Osterwalder
1942 – 2025
Pernel Strachey
1876 – 1951
René Maheu
1905 – 1975
Robert Bork
1927 – 2012
A. Maceo Smith
1903 – 1977
Ahmet Emin Yalman
1888 – 1972
Albert Vander Veer
1841 – 1929
Alois Alzheimer
1864 – 1915
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
1944 – 2012
Andrés Martínez Trueba
1884 – 1959
Aristide Merloni
1897 – 1970
Arthur Williams Wright
1836 – 1915
Benjamin Smith Barton
1766 – 1815
Börje Wallberg
1923 – 2014
Carl Busch
1862 – 1943
Carl Gustav Fleischer
1883 – 1942
Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer
1857 – 1941
Charles Camsell
1876 – 1958
Charles Read
1819 – 1898
Constantin Tomaszczuk
1840 – 1889
Dmitry Grave
1863 – 1939
Dmitry Shuvayev
1854 – 1937
Elizabeth Phillips Hughes
1851 – 1925
Florica Bagdasar
1901 – 1978
Francis Greenlief
1921 – 1999
Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam
1771 – 1848
Frederic William Maitland
1850 – 1906
Frederick Terman
1900 – 1982
Fritiof Fryxell
1900 – 1986
Giulio Alessio
1853 – 1940
Gunnar Isachsen
1868 – 1939
H. L. A. Hart
1907 – 1992
H. Norman Abramson
1926 – 2022
Harold Holt
1908 – 1967
Horst Ueberhorst
1925 – 2010
Hrant Matevosyan
1935 – 2002
Héctor José Cámpora
1909 – 1980
Igor Rodionov
1936 – 2014
Iichirō Hatoyama
1918 – 1993
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
1812 – 1860
James McGill
1744 – 1813
James Monroe Taylor
1848 – 1916
Jamila Ksiksi
1968 – 2022
Janos Galambos
1940 – 2019
Jaya Krishna Cuttaree
1941 – 2018
Jiang Ping
1930 – 2023
Jimmy Hill
1928 – 2015
Johann Friedrich von Schulte
1827 – 1914
John Bigelow
1817 – 1911
John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan
1670 – 1746
John Strachey
1823 – 1907
Jon Oberlander
1962 – 2017
Jonas Boruta
1944 – 2022
Joseph Henry Smith
1945 – 2023
Keith Stimely
1957 – 1992
Kirill Mazurov
1914 – 1989
Kurt Masur
1927 – 2015
Kyösti Kallio
1873 – 1940
Ladislaus von Rabcewicz
1893 – 1975
Leo Kiacheli
1884 – 1963
Leo Panitch
1945 – 2020
Lincoln Gordon
1913 – 2009
Lionel Blue
1930 – 2016
Luigi Calori
1807 – 1896
Mary Clemente Davlin
1929 – 2017
Masaru Ibuka
1908 – 1997
Mauno Vannas
1891 – 1964
Mekere Morauta
1946 – 2020
Michael Oakeshott
1901 – 1990
Morton J. Gold
1917 – 2013
Niels Arntzen Sem
1782 – 1859
Paul Vinogradoff
1854 – 1925
Peter Struck
1943 – 2012
Philip Bradbourn
1951 – 2014
Pierre Appell
1887 – 1957
Robert Andrews Millikan
1868 – 1953
Robert H. Grubbs
1942 – 2021
Rolf Dahlgrün
1908 – 1969
Ross Hutchinson
1914 – 1999
Shabtai Daniel
1909 – 1981
Stanley J. Stein
1920 – 2019
Stefan Olszowski
1931 – 2023
Takeo Kurita
1889 – 1977
Theodor Wiegand
1864 – 1936
Tsuneo Watanabe
1926 – 2024
Umashankar Joshi
1911 – 1988
Urban V
1310 – 1370
Viktor Hryhorovych
1815 – 1876
Ward Just
1935 – 2019
Werner Dankwort
1895 – 1986
Yoshio Mochizuki
1947 – 2019
Yuri Zhdanov
1919 – 2006
Abbas II
1874 – 1944
Adolf Lasson
1832 – 1917
Akira Mitsutake
1931 – 2025
Al Goldstein
1936 – 2013
Al Smith
1947 – 2022
Alba Zaluar
1942 – 2019
Albert Schinz
1870 – 1943
Aleksei Severtsov
1866 – 1936
Alekso Martulkov
1878 – 1962
Alfred Benzon
1823 – 1884
Ali Demi
1918 – 1943
Alonzo Patrick Fox
1895 – 1984
Amir Sjarifuddin
1907 – 1948
Andrei Malyukov
1948 – 2021
Andrey Krasnov
1862 – 1914
Anique Poitras
1961 – 2016
Anna Walinska
1906 – 1997
Anne Borg
1936 – 2016
Anthony Howard
1934 – 2010
Anupam Mishra
1947 – 2016
Arthur Arntzen
1937 – 2025
Arthur Capper
1865 – 1951
Arthur D. Hay
1884 – 1952
Benjamin F. Montoya
1935 – 2015
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey
1739 – 1819
Bernard G. Caulfield
1828 – 1887
Bernard Tucker
1901 – 1950
Bram van der Vlugt
1934 – 2020
Brendan Hansen
1922 – 1999
C. A. Ingram
1867 – 1937
Carl Alfthan
1860 – 1940
Carl Christian Bonnevie
1849 – 1917
Carson Abel Roberts
1905 – 1983
Cecil Harcourt
1892 – 1959
Charles Caldwell McCabe
1836 – 1906
Charles Close
1865 – 1952
Charles H. Holbrow
1935 – 2023
Charles H. Sykes
1882 – 1942
Charles Manning Child
1869 – 1959
Charles S. Farnsworth
1862 – 1955
Charles Tory Bruce
1906 – 1971
Charles Young Jr.
1962 – 2024
Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay
1723 – 1780
Christina of Lorraine
1565 – 1637
Christopher Newton
1936 – 2021
Claës Wersäll
1848 – 1919
Cuthbert Orde
1888 – 1968
David Hartley
1732 – 1813
David Schramm
1945 – 1997
Dmytro Hrytsai
1907 – 1945
Edmund L. Daley
1883 – 1968
Edward Echols
1849 – 1914
Edward Joseph Garland
1885 – 1974
Edward Thomas Noonan
1861 – 1923
Edward William Harcourt
1825 – 1891
Ehm Welk
1884 – 1966
El Hortelano
1954 – 2016
Eliezer Waldman
1937 – 2021
Elsie Clews Parsons
1875 – 1941
Emily Donelson
1807 – 1836
Eugene Robert Black
1873 – 1934
Eugène Darcy
1868 – 1928
Eugène Ketterer
1831 – 1870
Fidel Segundo
1894 – 1944
Francesco Saverio de Zelada
1717 – 1801
Francis P. Murphy
1877 – 1958
Francis Planté
1839 – 1934
Francis Yeats-Brown
1886 – 1944
Frans G. Bengtsson
1894 – 1954
Franz Christian Boll
1849 – 1879
Franz Tangl
1866 – 1917
Fred J. Murphy
1886 – 1956
Friedrich Delitzsch
1850 – 1922
Fyodor Matisen
1872 – 1921
George A. Marden
1839 – 1906
George Carter-Campbell
1869 – 1921
George Isaac Smith
1909 – 1982
George L. Bartlett
1924 – 2024
George Stone
1708 – 1764
Georgios Metallinos
1940 – 2019
Gil de Albornoz y Espinosa
Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
1928 – 2015
Grigore Iunian
1882 – 1940
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck
1830 – 1916
Gustav Dannreuther
1853 – 1923
Hans Rohrbach
1903 – 1993
Haymond Maxwell
1879 – 1958
Henry Latimer
1752 – 1819
Henry Ware Lawton
1843 – 1899
Herbert Blaize
1918 – 1989
Hope Lange
1933 – 2003
Horst-Eberhard Richter
1923 – 2011
Hosea M. Knowlton
1847 – 1902
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