19 January
Notable Births
Jonathan Taylor
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Donyell Malen
b. 1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Emre Guler
b. 1998
Turkey international rugby league player (born 1998)
Jakub Jankto
b. 1996
Czech footballer (born 1996)
Matthias Ginter
b. 1994
German association football player
Alfie Mawson
b. 1994
English footballer
Marvelous Nakamba
b. 1994
Zimbabwean footballer (born 1994)
Erick Torres (footballer, born 1993)
b. 1993
Mexican footballer
João Mário (footballer, born January 1993)
b. 1993
Portuguese footballer
Ricardo Centurión
b. 1993
Argentine footballer
Walter Benítez (footballer)
b. 1993
Argentine footballer (born 1993)
Jack Schlossberg
b. 1993
American writer and political commentator (born 1993)
Shawn Johnson East
b. 1992
American artistic gymnast (born 1992)
Logan Lerman
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Mac Miller
b. 1992
American rapper (1992–2018)
Petra Martić
b. 1991
Croatian tennis player (born 1991)
Erin Sanders
b. 1991
American actress (born 1991)
Tatiana Búa
b. 1990
Argentine tennis player
Shaunette Renée Wilson
b. 1990
American actress (born 1990)
Tyler Breeze
b. 1988
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Valentino (fashion designer)
d. 2026
Italian fashion designer (1932–2026)
Jeff Torborg
d. 2025
American baseball player and manager (1941–2025)
Miguel Ferrer
d. 2017
American actor (1955–2017)
Richard Levins
d. 2016
American Marxist biologist (1930–2016)
Ettore Scola
d. 2016
Italian screenwriter and film director (1931–2016)
Sheila Sim
d. 2016
English actress (1922–2016)
Justin Capră
d. 2015
Romanian engineer (1933–2015)
Michel Guimond
d. 2015
Canadian politician
Ward Swingle
d. 2015
Musical artist
Azaria Alon
d. 2014
Christopher Chataway
d. 2014
British runner, broadcaster and politician (1931–2014)
Taihō Kōki
d. 2013
Japanese sumo wrestler (1940–2013)
Stan Musial
d. 2013
American baseball player (1920–2013)
Frank Pooler
d. 2013
American conductor
Earl Weaver
d. 2013
American baseball manager (1930–2013)
Toktamış Ateş
d. 2013
Turkish academic and political commentator
Sarah Burke
d. 2012
Canadian freeskier (1982–2012)
Rudi van Dantzig
d. 2012
Dutch dancer and choreographer
Suzanne Pleshette
d. 2008
American actress (1937–2008)
John Stewart (musician)
d. 2008
American singer-songwriter (1939–2008)
On This Day in History
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2025
Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
ByteDance
2024
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
JAXA
2014
A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
2014 Bannu bombing
2012
The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
Megaupload
2007
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
Hrant Dink
2007
Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
Henry Cookson
2006
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes near Hejce, Hungary, killing 42.
Slovak Air Force
1999
British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
British Aerospace
1997
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
Yasser Arafat
1996
The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
North Cape oil spill
1995
After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C
1993
Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
Czech Republic
1991
Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
Gulf War
1990
Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
1988
Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, Colorado, killing nine.
Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286
1981
Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
Iran hostage crisis
1978
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
Volkswagen Beetle
1977
President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
Gerald Ford
1969
Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
Jan Palach
1966
Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.
Indira Gandhi