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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of October 0439 | EVENT | The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. |
| 19th of October 1216 | EVENT | King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. |
| 19th of October 1453 | EVENT | The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil. |
| 19th of October 1466 | EVENT | The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn. |
| 19th of October 1469 | EVENT | Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. |
| 19th of October 1512 | EVENT | Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia). |
| 19th of October 1649 | EVENT | New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell. |
| 19th of October 1781 | EVENT | At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau. |
| 19th of October 1789 | EVENT | Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. |
| 19th of October 1812 | EVENT | Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow. |
| 19th of October 1813 | EVENT | The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats. |
| 19th of October 1822 | EVENT | In Parnaiba; Simplicio Dias da Silva, Joao Candido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piaui. |
| 19th of October 1864 | EVENT | Battle of Cedar Creek : Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroy the Confederate Army under Jubal Early. |
| 19th of October 1864 | EVENT | St. Albans Raid : Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada. |
| 19th of October 1866 | EVENT | Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy. |
| 19th of October 1873 | EVENT | Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. |
| 19th of October 1904 | EVENT | Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley. |
| 19th of October 1912 | EVENT | Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 19th of October 1914 | EVENT | The First Battle of Ypres begins. |
| 19th of October 1917 | EVENT | The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened. |
| 19th of October 1921 | EVENT | Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. |
| 19th of October 1933 | EVENT | Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. |
| 19th of October 1935 | EVENT | The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. |
| 19th of October 1943 | EVENT | Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. |
| 19th of October 1944 | EVENT | United States forces land in the Philippines. |
| 19th of October 1950 | EVENT | The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet". |
| 19th of October 1950 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces. |
| 19th of October 1954 | EVENT | First ascent of Cho Oyu. |
| 19th of October 1956 | EVENT | The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945. |
| 19th of October 1959 | EVENT | The first discotheque opens. |
| 19th of October 1969 | EVENT | The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba. |
| 19th of October 1973 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. |
| 19th of October 1974 | EVENT | Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand. |
| 19th of October 1976 | EVENT | Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. |
| 19th of October 1983 | EVENT | Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'etat led by Bernard Coard. |
| 19th of October 1986 | EVENT | Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains. |
| 19th of October 1987 | EVENT | In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms. |
| 19th of October 1987 | EVENT | Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. |
| 19th of October 1989 | EVENT | 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. |
| 19th of October 2001 | EVENT | SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people. |
| 19th of October 2003 | EVENT | Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. |
| 19th of October 2004 | EVENT | Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption. |
| 19th of October 2004 | EVENT | Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq. |
| 19th of October 2005 | EVENT | Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. |
| 19th of October 2005 | EVENT | Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. |
| 19th of October 2007 | EVENT | Philippines. A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people. |
| 19th of October 1276 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328) |
| 19th of October 1433 | BIRTHDAY | Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499) |
| 19th of October 1562 | BIRTHDAY | George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633) |
| 19th of October 1582 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (d. 1591) |
| 19th of October 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682) |
| 19th of October 1610 | BIRTHDAY | James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688) |
| 19th of October 1658 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704) |
| 19th of October 1680 | BIRTHDAY | John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740) |
| 19th of October 1688 | BIRTHDAY | William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752) |
| 19th of October 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Victor-Francois, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804) |
| 19th of October 1720 | BIRTHDAY | John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772) |
| 19th of October 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800) |
| 19th of October 1784 | BIRTHDAY | James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859) |
| 19th of October 1784 | BIRTHDAY | John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857) |
| 19th of October 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903) |
| 19th of October 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (d. 1895) |
| 19th of October 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935) |
| 19th of October 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895) |
| 19th of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937) |
| 19th of October 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Lumiere, French inventor (d. 1954) |
| 19th of October 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Bertha Landes, American politician (d. 1943) |
| 19th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925) |
| 19th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965) |
| 19th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945) |
| 19th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916) |
| 19th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956) |
| 19th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999) |
| 19th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990) |
| 19th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
| 19th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 19th of October 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) |
| 19th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990) |
| 19th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957) |
| 19th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991) |
| 19th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996) |
| 19th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971) |
| 19th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962) |
| 19th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) |
| 19th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975) |
| 19th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (d. 2009) |
| 19th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |
| 19th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980) |
| 19th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980) |
| 19th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974) |
| 19th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009) |
| 19th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985) |
| 19th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Munk, Austrian-born American oceanographer |
| 19th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Evans, British mountaineer (d. 1995) |
| 19th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Russel Kirk, American author and political theorist (d. 1994) |
| 19th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003) |
| 19th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 19th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005) |
| 19th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (d. 2010) |
| 19th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 19th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Feinberg, American philosopher (d. 2004) |
| 19th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter |
| 19th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Scheimer, American animation producer |
| 19th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John le Carre, English novelist |
| 19th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 19th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Bevel, American activist (d. 2008) |
| 19th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Lo Bianco, American actor |
| 19th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Max, American artist |
| 19th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer |
| 19th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gambon, Irish-born British actor |
| 19th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Ward, British actor |
| 19th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney |
| 19th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 19th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Holloway, British composer |
| 19th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers) (d. 1987) |
| 19th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | George McCrae, American soul singer |
| 19th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Jones, American Soul singer |
| 19th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Divine, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 19th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist |
| 19th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Lithgow, American actor |
| 19th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer |
| 19th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Pullman, English writer |
| 19th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist |
| 19th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Simmons, American musician |
| 19th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Mallow, American voice actor |
| 19th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Dickey, American football player |
| 19th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie McGrigor, British politician |
| 19th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek physicist, recipient of the Bocher Memorial Prize |
| 19th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Castro, Mexican actress and singer |
| 19th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach |
| 19th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Allardyce, English football manager |
| 19th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Bryant, American basketball player |
| 19th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Blum, American writer |
| 19th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Melpo Kosti, Greek actress |
| 19th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver |
| 19th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Grover Norquist, American political figure |
| 19th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993) |
| 19th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Weber, American basketball coach |
| 19th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide |
| 19th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic |
| 19th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dorinda Clark-Cole, American gospel singer |
| 19th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician |
| 19th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tiriel Mora, Australian actor |
| 19th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor |
| 19th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Steele, American political figure |
| 19th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nir Barkat, Israeli politician |
| 19th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Holliday, American singer and actress |
| 19th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sunny Deol, Indian actor |
| 19th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Evander Holyfield, American boxer |
| 19th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Chevalier, American author |
| 19th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Laurent of Belgium |
| 19th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer |
| 19th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Daugherty, American basketball player |
| 19th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Pennington, American television personality |
| 19th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor |
| 19th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sinitta, American singer |
| 19th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director |
| 19th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright |
| 19th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Davina McCall, English television presenter |
| 19th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter |
| 19th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer |
| 19th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor |
| 19th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Edward, American TV Psychic |
| 19th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ |
| 19th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Sanchez, Bolivian footballer |
| 19th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor |
| 19th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher |
| 19th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Pras, American musician |
| 19th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player |
| 19th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Gooding, American actor |
| 19th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Bryant, American actress |
| 19th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Young, baseball player |
| 19th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Harrington, American actor |
| 19th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Jose Houde, Canadian stand-up comic |
| 19th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker |
| 19th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Habib Beye, Senegalese footballer |
| 19th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Tamudo, Spanish footballer |
| 19th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player |
| 19th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver |
| 19th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician |
| 19th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer |
| 19th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Elliott, British actor |
| 19th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Lopez, Mexican footballer |
| 19th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends) |
| 19th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rajai Davis, American baseball player |
| 19th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Salisbury, American actor |
| 19th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Bautista, Philippine singer |
| 19th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver |
| 19th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer |
| 19th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer |
| 19th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kaio de Almeida, Brazilian swimmer |
| 19th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Etim, English mixed martial artist |
| 19th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer |
| 19th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Leon, Swedish singer and dancer (Play) |
| 19th of October 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Abby Sunderland, American sailor |
| 19th of October 0727 | DEATH | Saint Frideswide |
| 19th of October 1187 | DEATH | Pope Urban III |
| 19th of October 1216 | DEATH | King John of England (Born 1167) |
| 19th of October 1432 | DEATH | John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (Born 1392) |
| 19th of October 1587 | DEATH | Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1541) |
| 19th of October 1608 | DEATH | Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (Born 1551) |
| 19th of October 1636 | DEATH | Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician |
| 19th of October 1682 | DEATH | Thomas Browne, English writer (Born 1605) |
| 19th of October 1723 | DEATH | Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (Born 1646) |
| 19th of October 1745 | DEATH | Jonathan Swift, Irish author (Born 1667) |
| 19th of October 1790 | DEATH | Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1724) |
| 19th of October 1796 | DEATH | Michel de Beaupuy, French general of the Revolution (Born 1755) |
| 19th of October 1813 | DEATH | Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (Born 1763) |
| 19th of October 1815 | DEATH | Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (Born 1755) |
| 19th of October 1842 | DEATH | Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (Born 1808) |
| 19th of October 1851 | DEATH | Princess Marie-Therese-Charlotte (Born 1778) |
| 19th of October 1856 | DEATH | William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (Born 1799) |
| 19th of October 1889 | DEATH | King Louis of Portugal (Born 1838) |
| 19th of October 1893 | DEATH | Lucy Stone, American suffragist and women's rights activist (Born 1818) |
| 19th of October 1897 | DEATH | George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (Born 1831) |
| 19th of October 1901 | DEATH | Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (Born 1829) |
| 19th of October 1918 | DEATH | Harold Lockwood, American actor (Born 1887) |
| 19th of October 1936 | DEATH | Lu Xun, Chinese writer (Born 1881) |
| 19th of October 1937 | DEATH | Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1871) |
| 19th of October 1943 | DEATH | Camille Claudel, French sculptor (Born 1864) |
| 19th of October 1945 | DEATH | Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico (Born 1877) |
| 19th of October 1950 | DEATH | Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (Born 1892) |
| 19th of October 1956 | DEATH | Isham Jones, American musician (Born 1894) |
| 19th of October 1960 | DEATH | George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (Born 1895) |
| 19th of October 1964 | DEATH | Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Born 1885) |
| 19th of October 1970 | DEATH | Lazaro Cardenas, President of Mexico (Born 1895) |
| 19th of October 1978 | DEATH | Gig Young, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 19th of October 1983 | DEATH | Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (Born 1944) |
| 19th of October 1984 | DEATH | Jerzy Popie?uszko, Polish priest, associated with the Solidarity union, murdered by the agents of internal intelligence agency (Born 1947) |
| 19th of October 1985 | DEATH | Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (Born 1915) |
| 19th of October 1986 | DEATH | Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist |
| 19th of October 1986 | DEATH | Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (Born 1933) |
| 19th of October 1987 | DEATH | Jacqueline du Pre, English cellist (Born 1945) |
| 19th of October 1987 | DEATH | Hermann Lang, German race car driver (Born 1909) |
| 19th of October 1988 | DEATH | Son House, American musician (Born 1902) |
| 19th of October 1994 | DEATH | Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (Born 1916) |
| 19th of October 1995 | DEATH | Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1936) |
| 19th of October 1997 | DEATH | Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Born 1947) |
| 19th of October 1999 | DEATH | Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (Born 1900) |
| 19th of October 1999 | DEATH | James C. Murray, American politician (Born 1917) |
| 19th of October 2000 | DEATH | Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (Born 1941) |
| 19th of October 2003 | DEATH | Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Born 1925) |
| 19th of October 2003 | DEATH | Margaret Murie, American conservationist (Born 1902) |
| 19th of October 2003 | DEATH | Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (Born 1960) |
| 19th of October 2005 | DEATH | Corinne Levesque, wife of Quebec premier Rene Levesque (Born 1943) |
| 19th of October 2005 | DEATH | Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (Born 1982) |
| 19th of October 2006 | DEATH | James Glennon, American cinematographer (Born 1942) |
| 19th of October 2007 | DEATH | Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (Born 1987) |
| 19th of October 2007 | DEATH | Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (Born 1943) |
| 19th of October 2007 | DEATH | Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (Born 1925) |
| 19th of October 2008 | DEATH | Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (Born 1922) |
| 19th of October 2008 | DEATH | Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (Born 1937) |
| 19th of October 2009 | DEATH | Howard Unruh, American spree killer (Born 1921) |
| 19th of October 2009 | DEATH | Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (Born 1918) |
| 19th of October 2010 | DEATH | Tom Bosley, American actor (Born 1927) |