Did you know
Adolf Eichmann participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned.
Famous Birthdays on March 19
1906 — Adolf Eichmann
German SS officer, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust (died 1962)
March 19 has 172 recorded notable births across history, from 1206 to 1999. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 19
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- 1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England". Source
- 2004 March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. Source
- 1989 The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979. Source
- 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. Source
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On April 17, 1969, he was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges.
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Earl Warren was an American attorney and politician who served as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953.
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Andy Reid is the longest tenured coach in the league, and the only NFL coach to win 100 games with two different franchises and also the only coach to appear in four consecutive conference championships with two different franchises.
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Ricky Helton Wilson was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52s.
More major people born on March 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1944
Sirhan Sirhan
Palestinian-Jordanian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of U.S. president John F.
1891
Earl Warren
American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1974)
Earl Warren was an American attorney and politician who served as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953.
1958
Andy Reid
American football player and coach
Andrew Walter Reid is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).
1953
Ricky Wilson
American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1985)
Ricky Helton Wilson was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52s. Born in Athens, Georgia, Wilson was the brother of fellow member Cindy Wilson.
1206
Güyük Khan
Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1248)
Güyük Khan or Güyüg Khagan, mononymously Güyüg, was the third Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the eldest son of Ögedei Khan and a grandson of Genghis Khan. He reigned from 1246 to 1248.
1915
Patricia Morison
American actress and singer (died 2018)
Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer.
1986
Ahmad Bradshaw
American football player
Ahmad Bradshaw is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd.
1872
Anna Held
Polish singer (died 1918)
Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife.
1882
Gaston Lachaise
French-American sculptor (died 1935)
Gaston Lachaise was a French-born sculptor, active in America in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he is most noted for his robust female nudes such as his heroic Standing Woman.
1978
Cydonie Mothersille
Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter
Cydonie Camille Mothersille is a female former track and field sprinter from the Cayman Islands. Her speciality at the beginning of her career was the 100 metres, while the 200 metres gradually became her main event.
1844
Minna Canth
Finnish journalist, playwright, and activist (died 1897)
Minna Canth was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children.
1860
William Jennings Bryan
American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (died 1925)
William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator, and politician.
1922
Guy Lewis
American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Guy Vernon Lewis II was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston from 1956 to 1986.
1921
Tommy Cooper
British magician and prop comedian (died 1984)
Thomas Frederick Cooper was a Welsh prop comedian, actor, entertainer and magician. He was large and lumbering at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and habitually wore a red fez when performing.
1848
Wyatt Earp
American police officer (died 1929)
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws.
1986
Tyler Bozak
Canadian ice hockey player
Tyler Bozak is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1684
Jean Astruc
French physician and scholar (died 1766)
Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental…
1734
Thomas McKean
American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1817)
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father.
1864
Charles Marion Russell
American painter and sculptor (died 1926)
Charles Marion Russell was an American artist credited for his prolific work of more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition…