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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of January 1419 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. |
| 19th of January 1511 | EVENT | Mirandola surrenders to the French. |
| 19th of January 1520 | EVENT | Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. |
| 19th of January 1607 | EVENT | San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. |
| 19th of January 1764 | EVENT | John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. |
| 19th of January 1788 | EVENT | The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. |
| 19th of January 1795 | EVENT | The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. |
| 19th of January 1806 | EVENT | The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 19th of January 1812 | EVENT | Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. |
| 19th of January 1817 | EVENT | An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General Jose de San Martin, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. |
| 19th of January 1829 | EVENT | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance. |
| 19th of January 1839 | EVENT | The British East India Company captures Aden. |
| 19th of January 1840 | EVENT | Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. |
| 19th of January 1853 | EVENT | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. |
| 19th of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. |
| 19th of January 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs : The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. |
| 19th of January 1871 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. |
| 19th of January 1883 | EVENT | The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. |
| 19th of January 1893 | EVENT | Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin. |
| 19th of January 1899 | EVENT | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. |
| 19th of January 1915 | EVENT | Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. |
| 19th of January 1915 | EVENT | World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. |
| 19th of January 1917 | EVENT | Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. |
| 19th of January 1920 | EVENT | The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. |
| 19th of January 1935 | EVENT | Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs. |
| 19th of January 1937 | EVENT | Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. |
| 19th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma |
| 19th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ?odz ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. |
| 19th of January 1946 | EVENT | General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. |
| 19th of January 1949 | EVENT | Cuba recognizes Israel. |
| 19th of January 1953 | EVENT | 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. |
| 19th of January 1969 | EVENT | Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. |
| 19th of January 1975 | EVENT | An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India |
| 19th of January 1977 | EVENT | Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas. |
| 19th of January 1977 | EVENT | President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). |
| 19th of January 1978 | EVENT | The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003. |
| 19th of January 1981 | EVENT | Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. |
| 19th of January 1983 | EVENT | Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. |
| 19th of January 1983 | EVENT | The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. |
| 19th of January 1986 | EVENT | The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. |
| 19th of January 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. |
| 19th of January 1993 | EVENT | Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. |
| 19th of January 1996 | EVENT | The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. |
| 19th of January 1997 | EVENT | Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. |
| 19th of January 1999 | EVENT | British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. |
| 19th of January 2006 | EVENT | A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary. |
| 19th of January 2006 | EVENT | The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. |
| 19th of January 2007 | EVENT | Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogun Samast. |
| 19th of January 0399 | BIRTHDAY | Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) |
| 19th of January 1544 | BIRTHDAY | King Francis II of France (d. 1560) |
| 19th of January 1736 | BIRTHDAY | James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819) |
| 19th of January 1739 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808) |
| 19th of January 1752 | BIRTHDAY | James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820) |
| 19th of January 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831) |
| 19th of January 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857) |
| 19th of January 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870) |
| 19th of January 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) |
| 19th of January 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849) |
| 19th of January 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898) |
| 19th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875) |
| 19th of January 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872) |
| 19th of January 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Cezanne, French painter (d. 1906) |
| 19th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904) |
| 19th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883) |
| 19th of January 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922) |
| 19th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941) |
| 19th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906) |
| 19th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922) |
| 19th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899) |
| 19th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Wakashima Gonshiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943) |
| 19th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934) |
| 19th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925) |
| 19th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943) |
| 19th of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943) |
| 19th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Olafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964) |
| 19th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991) |
| 19th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971) |
| 19th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003) |
| 19th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009) |
| 19th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) |
| 19th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955) |
| 19th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990) |
| 19th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005) |
| 19th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005) |
| 19th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Perez de Cuellar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General |
| 19th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | 'Billy Batts' Devino, American gangster (d. 1970) |
| 19th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995) |
| 19th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 19th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Stapleton, American actress |
| 19th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006) |
| 19th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985) |
| 19th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Revel, French author (d. 2006) |
| 19th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Bawden, English author |
| 19th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Weaver, American actor |
| 19th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tippi Hedren, American actress |
| 19th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist |
| 19th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008) |
| 19th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Lester, British director |
| 19th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | George Coyne, American theologian |
| 19th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist |
| 19th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor |
| 19th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978) |
| 19th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh (d. 1981) |
| 19th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter |
| 19th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998) |
| 19th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Everly, American musician |
| 19th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992) |
| 19th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007) |
| 19th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002) |
| 19th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler |
| 19th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003) |
| 19th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Crawford, British singer and actor |
| 19th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Mayne, American Architect |
| 19th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress |
| 19th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970) |
| 19th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Margriet of the Netherlands |
| 19th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Fabares, American actress |
| 19th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Lynch, American investor |
| 19th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie London, English singer |
| 19th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Reeves, American football coach |
| 19th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Williams, English Bass Guitarist |
| 19th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Barnes, English author |
| 19th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dolly Parton, American singer and actress |
| 19th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple) |
| 19th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur |
| 19th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Compton, American news reporter |
| 19th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Frank McKenna, Canadian politician |
| 19th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003) |
| 19th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player |
| 19th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor |
| 19th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Nordman, Canadian politician |
| 19th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor |
| 19th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Legendre, Canadian politician |
| 19th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Hayden, English actress |
| 19th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Katey Sagal, American actress |
| 19th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director |
| 19th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Sherman, American photographer |
| 19th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rodriguez, Mexican/American actor and comedian |
| 19th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Rattle, English conductor |
| 19th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Carman Licciardello, American singer |
| 19th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician |
| 19th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ottis Anderson, former American football player |
| 19th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Pilson, American bass guitarist |
| 19th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | William Ragsdale, American actor |
| 19th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist |
| 19th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach |
| 19th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter |
| 19th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Adams, American basketball player |
| 19th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul) |
| 19th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist |
| 19th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer |
| 19th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Cote, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player |
| 19th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player |
| 19th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer |
| 19th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Camara, Spanish actor |
| 19th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Whitfield Crane, American musician (Ugly Kid Joe) |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Longley, Australian basketball player |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Predrag Mijatovic, Yugoslavian footballer |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Seau, American football player |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Sherman, American author |
| 19th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Staunton, Irish footballer |
| 19th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian |
| 19th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete |
| 19th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Wayans, American actor |
| 19th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground) |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joana Benedek, Mexican actress |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Kaliska, Slovak slalom canoer |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Kalina of Bulgaria |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Killings, American professional wrestler |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Drea de Matteo, American actress |
| 19th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Fisher, American entrepreneur |
| 19th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist |
| 19th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer |
| 19th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity |
| 19th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Laperriere, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Caliendo, American comedian |
| 19th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer |
| 19th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Georgeson, American musician |
| 19th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer |
| 19th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver |
| 19th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor |
| 19th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer |
| 19th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole, Chilean singer |
| 19th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Cocco, Japanese singer |
| 19th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast |
| 19th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer |
| 19th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Wiley, English rapper |
| 19th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor |
| 19th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jenson Button, English Formula One driver |
| 19th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kotoko, Japanese singer |
| 19th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer |
| 19th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer |
| 19th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lucho Gonzalez, Argentine footballer |
| 19th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress |
| 19th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jodie Sweetin, American actress |
| 19th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and songwriter |
| 19th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer |
| 19th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Kebe, Malian Footballer |
| 19th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Felicity Jones, English actress |
| 19th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver |
| 19th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player |
| 19th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Allen, American football player |
| 19th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player |
| 19th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) |
| 19th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver |
| 19th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer |
| 19th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer |
| 19th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Monfries, Australian league footballer |
| 19th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | JaVale McGee, American Basketball Player |
| 19th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Sanders, American actress |
| 19th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Lerman, American actor |
| 19th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Johnson, American gymnast |
| 19th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Miller, American rapper |
| 19th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Lewis, English actor |
| 19th of January 0639 | DEATH | Dagobert I, King of the Franks (Born c. 603) |
| 19th of January 1526 | DEATH | Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (Born 1501) |
| 19th of January 1547 | DEATH | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (Born 1517) |
| 19th of January 1576 | DEATH | Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (Born 1494) |
| 19th of January 1661 | DEATH | Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (Born 1599) |
| 19th of January 1729 | DEATH | William Congreve, English playwright (Born 1670) |
| 19th of January 1757 | DEATH | Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (Born 1674) |
| 19th of January 1766 | DEATH | Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (Born 1695) |
| 19th of January 1785 | DEATH | Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (Born 1713) |
| 19th of January 1833 | DEATH | Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (Born 1791) |
| 19th of January 1847 | DEATH | Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated) (Born 1799) |
| 19th of January 1851 | DEATH | Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (Born 1805) |
| 19th of January 1865 | DEATH | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (Born 1809) |
| 19th of January 1869 | DEATH | Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (Born 1788) |
| 19th of January 1874 | DEATH | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (Born 1798) |
| 19th of January 1878 | DEATH | Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (Born 1810) |
| 19th of January 1905 | DEATH | Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (Born 1817) |
| 19th of January 1906 | DEATH | Bartolome Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, president of the country (Born 1821) |
| 19th of January 1915 | DEATH | Thomas Herbst, German painter (Born 1848) |
| 19th of January 1925 | DEATH | Queen Maria Sophia of Two Sicilies (Born1841) |
| 19th of January 1927 | DEATH | Empress Carlotta of Mexico (Born 1840) |
| 19th of January 1929 | DEATH | Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (Born 1873) |
| 19th of January 1939 | DEATH | Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (Born 1898) |
| 19th of January 1948 | DEATH | Tony Garnier, French architect (Born 1869) |
| 19th of January 1954 | DEATH | Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (Born 1885) |
| 19th of January 1957 | DEATH | Jozsef Dudas, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (Born 1912) |
| 19th of January 1964 | DEATH | Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (Born 1886) |
| 19th of January 1965 | DEATH | Arnold Luhaaar, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (Born 1905) |
| 19th of January 1968 | DEATH | Ray Harroun, American race car driver (Born 1879) |
| 19th of January 1969 | DEATH | Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (Born 1948) |
| 19th of January 1971 | DEATH | Harry Shields, American musician (Born 1899) |
| 19th of January 1972 | DEATH | Michael Rabin, American violinist (Born 1936) |
| 19th of January 1973 | DEATH | Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (Born 1903) |
| 19th of January 1975 | DEATH | Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (Born 1889) |
| 19th of January 1976 | DEATH | Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (Born 1886) |
| 19th of January 1980 | DEATH | William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1898) |
| 19th of January 1982 | DEATH | Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (Born 1945) |
| 19th of January 1983 | DEATH | Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (Born 1956) |
| 19th of January 1984 | DEATH | Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1920) |
| 19th of January 1987 | DEATH | Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (Born 1927) |
| 19th of January 1990 | DEATH | Herbert Wehner, German politician (Born 1906) |
| 19th of January 1990 | DEATH | Semprini, English musician (Born 1908) |
| 19th of January 1990 | DEATH | Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (Born 1931) |
| 19th of January 1991 | DEATH | John Russell, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 19th of January 1991 | DEATH | Marcel Chaput, French-Canadian politician (Born 1918) |
| 19th of January 1995 | DEATH | Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (Born 1938) |
| 19th of January 1996 | DEATH | Don Simpson, American film producer (Born 1943) |
| 19th of January 1997 | DEATH | James Dickey, American writer (Born 1923) |
| 19th of January 1997 | DEATH | Adriana Caselotti, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 19th of January 1998 | DEATH | Carl Perkins, American guitarist (Born 1932) |
| 19th of January 1999 | DEATH | Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (Born 1967) |
| 19th of January 2000 | DEATH | Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (Born 1934) |
| 19th of January 2000 | DEATH | Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (Born 1913) |
| 19th of January 2001 | DEATH | Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (Born 1921) |
| 19th of January 2003 | DEATH | Francoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (Born 1916) |
| 19th of January 2004 | DEATH | Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (Born 1917) |
| 19th of January 2004 | DEATH | David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (Born 1955) |
| 19th of January 2005 | DEATH | Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (Born 1924) |
| 19th of January 2005 | DEATH | Anita Kulcsar, Hungarian handball player (Born 1976) |
| 19th of January 2005 | DEATH | K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (Born 1974) |
| 19th of January 2006 | DEATH | Anthony Franciosa, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 19th of January 2006 | DEATH | Wilson Pickett, American singer (Born 1941) |
| 19th of January 2006 | DEATH | Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (Born 1921) |
| 19th of January 2006 | DEATH | Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (Born 1933) |
| 19th of January 2007 | DEATH | Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (Born 1954) |
| 19th of January 2007 | DEATH | Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (Born 1940) |
| 19th of January 2007 | DEATH | Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (Born 1961) |
| 19th of January 2007 | DEATH | Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (Born 1969) |
| 19th of January 2008 | DEATH | John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (Born 1939) |
| 19th of January 2008 | DEATH | Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (Born 1937) |
| 19th of January 2008 | DEATH | Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (Born 1936) |
| 19th of January 2010 | DEATH | Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (Born 1923) |
| 19th of January 2010 | DEATH | Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor) (Born 1972) |
| 19th of January 2011 | DEATH | Ernest McCulloch, stem cell research pioneer (Born 1926) |