19 October

Notable Births

Carlotta Truman

b. 1999

German singer

Chance Perdomo

b. 1996

American and British actor (1996–2024)

Sammis Reyes

b. 1995

Chilean basketball and gridiron football player (born 1995)

Cal Petersen

b. 1994

American ice hockey player (born 1994)

Anthony Santander

b. 1994

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1994)

Agnė Sereikaitė

b. 1994

Lithuanian speed skater (born 1994)

Abby Sunderland

b. 1993

American sailor (born 1993)

Lil Durk

b. 1992

American rapper (born 1992)

Colton Dixon

b. 1991

American musician (born 1991)

Janet Leon

b. 1990

Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1990)

Ciara Renée

b. 1990

American actress (born 1990)

Endō Shōta

b. 1990

Japanese sumo wrestler

James Gavet

b. 1989

Samoa international rugby league footballer

Mindaugas Kuzminskas

b. 1989

Lithuanian basketball player (born 1989)

Miroslav Stoch

b. 1989

Slovak professional footballer

Janine Tugonon

b. 1989

Filipino model ang beauty pageant titleholder

Zeph Ellis

b. 1988

British rapper (1988–2026)

Markiyan Kamysh

b. 1988

Ukrainian novelist

Chris Lawrence (rugby league)

b. 1988

Australia international rugby league footballer

Tsunenori Aoki

b. 1987

Japanese actor and model

Notable Deaths

Daniel Naroditsky

d. 2025

American chess grandmaster (1995–2025)

Atsushi Sakurai

d. 2023

Japanese musician (1966–2023)

Umberto Lenzi

d. 2017

Italian director and writer (1931–2017)

Bill Daley (American football)

d. 2015

American football player (1919–2015)

Fleming Mackell

d. 2015

Canadian ice hockey player

Ali Treki

d. 2015

Libyan diplomat (1937–2015)

Stephen Paulus

d. 2014

American composer (1949–2014)

Raphael Ravenscroft

d. 2014

British musician, composer, and author (1954–2014)

Serena Shim

d. 2014

Lebanese-American journalist (1985 –2014)

Noel Harrison

d. 2013

English actor and singer (1934–2013)

Ronald Shannon Jackson

d. 2013

American jazz drummer (1940–2013)

Mahmoud Zoufonoun

d. 2013

Musical artist

Lincoln Alexander

d. 2012

Canadian lawyer and politician (1922–2012)

Wiyogo Atmodarminto

d. 2012

Indonesian general and diplomat

Mike Graham (wrestler)

d. 2012

American professional wrestler (1951–2012)

Fiorenzo Magni

d. 2012

Italian cyclist

Kakkanadan

d. 2011

Indian Malayalam-language writer (1935–2011)

Tom Bosley

d. 2010

American actor (1927–2010)

Howard Unruh

d. 2009

American mass murderer (1921–2009)

Joseph Wiseman

d. 2009

Canadian and American actor (1918–2009)

On This Day in History

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2025

Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..

French Crown Jewels

2019

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

House of Lords

2013

One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

2013 Buenos Aires train crash

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2012

A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

Assassination of Wissam al-Hassan

2005

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Saddam Hussein

2005

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

Hurricane Wilma

2004

Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.

Corporate Airlines Flight 5966

2003

Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Mother Teresa

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2001

SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

SIEV X

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1989

The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

Guildford Four and Maguire Seven

1988

The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions