General Events and Observations of July 19

514: Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy
931: Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1374: Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
1415: Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1543: Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1631: Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687: Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1692: Sarah Good, Puritan accused of being witch during Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653)
1742: William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810: Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
1814: Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1838: Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1850: Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
1857: Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868: Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
1896: Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1913: Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1939: Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1947: Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947: U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1965: Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1972: Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1974: Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1974: Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
1975: Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1980: Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
1981: Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982: John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984: Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985: Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989: Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990: Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
1998: Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002: Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003: Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003: Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004: Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004: Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005: Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2005: John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2006: Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007: A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)

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