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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of May 1499 | EVENT | Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. |
| 19th of May 1535 | EVENT | French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). |
| 19th of May 1536 | EVENT | Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. |
| 19th of May 1568 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
| 19th of May 1643 | EVENT | Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. |
| 19th of May 1649 | EVENT | An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. |
| 19th of May 1749 | EVENT | King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River. |
| 19th of May 1780 | EVENT | New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M. |
| 19th of May 1802 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion d'Honneur. |
| 19th of May 1828 | EVENT | U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States. |
| 19th of May 1848 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD. |
| 19th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. |
| 19th of May 1897 | EVENT | Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol. |
| 19th of May 1911 | EVENT | Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. |
| 19th of May 1919 | EVENT | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. |
| 19th of May 1921 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. |
| 19th of May 1922 | EVENT | The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established. |
| 19th of May 1934 | EVENT | Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'etat and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister. |
| 19th of May 1943 | EVENT | World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather. |
| 19th of May 1950 | EVENT | A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. |
| 19th of May 1959 | EVENT | The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. |
| 19th of May 1961 | EVENT | Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). |
| 19th of May 1962 | EVENT | A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Happy Birthday. |
| 19th of May 1971 | EVENT | Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. |
| 19th of May 1991 | EVENT | Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. |
| 19th of May 2010 | EVENT | The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders. |
| 19th of May 1048 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Khayyam, Persian poet (d. 1131) |
| 19th of May 1593 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678) |
| 19th of May 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Jose de Escandon, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770) |
| 19th of May 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779) |
| 19th of May 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born wife of King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818) |
| 19th of May 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814) |
| 19th of May 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854) |
| 19th of May 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873) |
| 19th of May 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Spain (d. 1818) |
| 19th of May 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896) |
| 19th of May 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931) |
| 19th of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936) |
| 19th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963) |
| 19th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955) |
| 19th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964) |
| 19th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964) |
| 19th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938) |
| 19th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967) |
| 19th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969) |
| 19th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916) |
| 19th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918) |
| 19th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and esotericist (d. 1974) |
| 19th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007) |
| 19th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) |
| 19th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994) |
| 19th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Nicholas Winton, British wartime humanitarian |
| 19th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983) |
| 19th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949) |
| 19th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 19th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Go Seigen, Japanese Go player |
| 19th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) |
| 19th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000) |
| 19th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Mitja Ribicic, Slovenian Communist politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia |
| 19th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999) |
| 19th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist |
| 19th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Gelin, French actor (d. 2002) |
| 19th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Gilmore, Irish barkeep |
| 19th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Wilson, British composer |
| 19th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965) |
| 19th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998) |
| 19th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004) |
| 19th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author |
| 19th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009) |
| 19th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Chapman, British car designer (d. 1982) |
| 19th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach |
| 19th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gil McDougald, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 19th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008) |
| 19th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965) |
| 19th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor |
| 19th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967) |
| 19th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966) |
| 19th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007) |
| 19th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006) |
| 19th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ruskin Bond, Indian author |
| 19th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lehrer, American television journalist |
| 19th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Fitch, American basketball head coach |
| 19th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | David Hartman, American actor and television personality |
| 19th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004) |
| 19th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Moises da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (d. 1989) |
| 19th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Madge Hindle, English actress |
| 19th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | James Fox, English actor |
| 19th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Livio Berruti, Italian athlete |
| 19th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 19th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress |
| 19th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist |
| 19th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Newbury, American musician (d. 2002) |
| 19th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Ephron, American screenwriter |
| 19th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer |
| 19th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter |
| 19th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994) |
| 19th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mayhew, British-American actor |
| 19th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Townshend, English guitarist (The Who) |
| 19th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Andre the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
| 19th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Lelievre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights |
| 19th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Helfgott, Australian pianist |
| 19th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter |
| 19th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Placido, Italian actor and director |
| 19th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress |
| 19th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dusty Hill, American singer and bassist (ZZ Top) |
| 19th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Manning, American football player |
| 19th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001) |
| 19th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Slater, American professional wrestler |
| 19th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer |
| 19th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer |
| 19th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997) |
| 19th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress |
| 19th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC) |
| 19th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer |
| 19th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Ware, British musician and music producer |
| 19th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Ford, American actor |
| 19th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach |
| 19th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994) |
| 19th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director |
| 19th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Filippo Galli, Italian footballer |
| 19th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Yazz, English singer |
| 19th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Whalen, American actor |
| 19th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Miloslav Mecir, Slovakian tennis player |
| 19th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor |
| 19th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean television presenter and 1987 Miss Universe |
| 19th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maile Flanagan, American actress |
| 19th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Boris, French singer |
| 19th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist |
| 19th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Picoult, American writer |
| 19th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Polly Walker, English actress |
| 19th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor |
| 19th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician |
| 19th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean golfer |
| 19th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor |
| 19th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Dumont, Canadian politician |
| 19th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 19th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Katz, American film producer |
| 19th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base) |
| 19th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Karvan, Australian actress |
| 19th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver |
| 19th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 19th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician |
| 19th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor |
| 19th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Delma Goncalves, Brazilian footballer |
| 19th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Paul, American baseball player |
| 19th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | London Fletcher, American football player |
| 19th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Cota, American basketball player |
| 19th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Garnett, American basketball player |
| 19th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer and actress |
| 19th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer |
| 19th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Inge, American baseball player |
| 19th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress |
| 19th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Zolciak, American reality show star and singer |
| 19th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Bent, English footballer |
| 19th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Forlan, Uruguayan footballer |
| 19th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress |
| 19th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer |
| 19th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hackworth, English footballer |
| 19th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Fuller, American actor and model |
| 19th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor |
| 19th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer |
| 19th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Leighton, Canadian hockey player |
| 19th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist |
| 19th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer |
| 19th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Pal Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer |
| 19th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Angel, Hungarian pornographic actress |
| 19th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Fox, English actress |
| 19th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Lynch, British comedienne and model |
| 19th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marcedes Lewis, American football player |
| 19th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player |
| 19th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Chalmers, American basketball player |
| 19th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Lloyd, American actor |
| 19th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | David Edgar, Canadian footballer |
| 19th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer |
| 19th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Cole, English model and actress |
| 19th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmine, Japanese singer |
| 19th of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Pruitt, American singer |
| 19th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Camporese, Italian footballer |
| 19th of May 0804 | DEATH | Alcuin, English monk and scholar (Born c.735) |
| 19th of May 0988 | DEATH | Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 909) |
| 19th of May 1102 | DEATH | Stephen II, Count of Blois (Born c.1045) |
| 19th of May 1125 | DEATH | Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (Born 1053) |
| 19th of May 1296 | DEATH | Pope Celestine V (Born 1215) |
| 19th of May 1319 | DEATH | Louis d'Evreux, son of Philip III of France (Born 1276) |
| 19th of May 1389 | DEATH | Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (Born 1350) |
| 19th of May 1526 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (Born 1464) |
| 19th of May 1531 | DEATH | Jan ?aski, Polish statesman and diplomat (Born 1456) |
| 19th of May 1536 | DEATH | Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England (Born 1501 or 1507) |
| 19th of May 1601 | DEATH | Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (Born 1528 or 1529) |
| 19th of May 1610 | DEATH | Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (Born 1550) |
| 19th of May 1637 | DEATH | Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (Born 1588) |
| 19th of May 1715 | DEATH | Charles Montagu, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Born 1661) |
| 19th of May 1786 | DEATH | John Stanley, English composer (Born 1712) |
| 19th of May 1795 | DEATH | Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1729) |
| 19th of May 1795 | DEATH | James Boswell, Scottish biographer (Born 1740) |
| 19th of May 1798 | DEATH | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman, and duelist (Born 1722) |
| 19th of May 1821 | DEATH | Camille Jordan, French politician (Born 1771) |
| 19th of May 1825 | DEATH | Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (Born 1760) |
| 19th of May 1864 | DEATH | Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (Born 1804) |
| 19th of May 1865 | DEATH | Sengge Rinchen, Mongol Qing Dynasty field marshal (Born 1811) |
| 19th of May 1876 | DEATH | Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (Born 1801) |
| 19th of May 1885 | DEATH | Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (Born 1809) |
| 19th of May 1895 | DEATH | Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader (Born 1853) |
| 19th of May 1898 | DEATH | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1809) |
| 19th of May 1903 | DEATH | Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (Born 1856) |
| 19th of May 1904 | DEATH | Auguste Molinier, French historian (Born 1851) |
| 19th of May 1907 | DEATH | Benjamin Baker, English engineer (Born 1840) |
| 19th of May 1912 | DEATH | Boles?aw Prus, Polish writer (Born 1847) |
| 19th of May 1915 | DEATH | John Simpson Kirkpatrick, stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (Born 1892) |
| 19th of May 1918 | DEATH | Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (Born 1885) |
| 19th of May 1935 | DEATH | T. E. Lawrence, English soldier, known as Lawrence of Arabia (Born 1888) |
| 19th of May 1940 | DEATH | Diego Mazquiaran, Spanish matador (Born 1895) |
| 19th of May 1943 | DEATH | Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (Born 1865) |
| 19th of May 1945 | DEATH | Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (Born 1889) |
| 19th of May 1946 | DEATH | Booth Tarkington, American novelist (Born 1869) |
| 19th of May 1954 | DEATH | Charles Ives, American composer (Born 1874) |
| 19th of May 1958 | DEATH | Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (Born 1927) |
| 19th of May 1958 | DEATH | Ronald Colman, English actor (Born 1891) |
| 19th of May 1963 | DEATH | Walter Russell, American polymath (Born 1871) |
| 19th of May 1965 | DEATH | Tu'i Malila, the world's oldest tortoise (Born circa 1777) |
| 19th of May 1969 | DEATH | Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1901) |
| 19th of May 1971 | DEATH | Ogden Nash, American poet (Born 1902) |
| 19th of May 1975 | DEATH | Li Tobler, Swiss actress (Born 1948) |
| 19th of May 1983 | DEATH | Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (Born 1902) |
| 19th of May 1984 | DEATH | John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (Born 1906) |
| 19th of May 1986 | DEATH | Jimmy Lyons, American musician (Born 1931) |
| 19th of May 1987 | DEATH | James Tiptree, Jr, American author (Born 1915) |
| 19th of May 1989 | DEATH | CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (Born 1901) |
| 19th of May 1994 | DEATH | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States 1961-1963 (Born 1929) |
| 19th of May 1994 | DEATH | Luis Ocana, Spanish cyclist (Born 1945) |
| 19th of May 1998 | DEATH | Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1922) |
| 19th of May 1999 | DEATH | Candy Candido, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 19th of May 1999 | DEATH | James Blades, English percussionist (Born 1901) |
| 19th of May 2000 | DEATH | Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1933) |
| 19th of May 2001 | DEATH | Susannah McCorkle, American singer (Born 1946) |
| 19th of May 2002 | DEATH | John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1911) |
| 19th of May 2002 | DEATH | Walter Lord, American writer (Born 1917) |
| 19th of May 2003 | DEATH | Camoflauge, American rapper (Born 1981) |
| 19th of May 2004 | DEATH | Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (Born 1907) |
| 19th of May 2005 | DEATH | Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (Born 1921) |
| 19th of May 2006 | DEATH | Freddie Garrity, English vocalist (Freddie and the Dreamers) (Born 1940) |
| 19th of May 2007 | DEATH | Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (Born 1914) |
| 19th of May 2008 | DEATH | Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (Born 1928) |
| 19th of May 2009 | DEATH | Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1916) |
| 19th of May 2009 | DEATH | Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Born 1954) |
| 19th of May 2009 | DEATH | Nicholas Maw, British composer (Born 1935) |
| 19th of May 2009 | DEATH | Herbert York, American physicist (Born 1921) |