January 19
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[change] Births
- 1544 - Francis II of France
- 1736 - James Watt
- 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe
- 1923 - Jean Stapleton
- 1932 - Richard Lester
[change] Deaths
- 639 - Dagobert I, king of the Franks
- 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
- 1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
- 1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault physcisist and chemist (b. 1810)
- 1905 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1968 - Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (b. 1879)
- 1969 - Jan Palach, student, political activist (b. 1948)
- 1971 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
- 1972 - Michael Rabin, concert violinist (b. 1936)
- 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
- 1980 - William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (b. 1898)
- 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
- 1990 - Rajneesh, religious leader (b. 1931)
- 1991 - John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer
- 1997 - James Dickey, poet, novelist (b. 1923)
- 1998 - Carl Perkins, guitarist (b. 1932)
- 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
- 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1913)
- 2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
- 2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Donald Beardslee, United States murderer, executed in California (b. 1943)
- 2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
- 2005 - Hans Gratzer, Austrian director and theatre manager
- 2005 - Ardyth Kennelly, US novelist
- 2005 - Ricardo Suriñach, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003) (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Scott Bigelow, American athlete and entertainer.
[change] Events
- 1955- Scrapple debuts
