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Indira Gandhi was India's first and only female prime minister.
Famous Birthdays on November 19
1917 — Indira Gandhi
Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (died 1984)
November 19 has 259 recorded notable births across history, from 1417 to 1999. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on November 19
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- 1985 Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. Source
- 1999 Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. Source
- 1967 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. Source
- 1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. Source
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After several independent releases, he signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, an imprint of Cash Money Records and Republic Records in 2008.
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Larry King was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Erika Alexander has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Sorum was also a member of Guns N' Roses side projects, Slash's Snakepit and Neurotic Outsiders, and has released two solo albums, Hollywood Zen (2004) and Stratosphere (2014).
More major people born on November 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1989
Tyga
American rapper
Micheal Ray Stevenson, known professionally as Tyga, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.
1933
Larry King
American journalist and talk show host (died 2021)
Larry King was an American TV and radio host, author, and spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s.
1969
Erika Alexander
American actress and screenwriter
Erika Rose Alexander is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist who played the roles of Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show from 1990 to 1992, and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living…
1960
Matt Sorum
American drummer, songwriter, and producer
Matthew William Sorum is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band The Cult, Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet…
1752
George Rogers Clark
American general (died 1818)
George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War.
1905
Eleanor Audley
American actress (died 1991)
Eleanor Audley was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work.
1905
Tommy Dorsey
American trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 1956)
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing.
1935
Rashad Khalifa
Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (died 1990)
Rashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of "Quran, the Whole Quran, and Nothing But the…
1966
Gail Devers
American sprinter and hurdler
Yolanda Gail Devers is an American retired track and field sprinter who competed in the 60 metres, 60 m hurdles, 100 m and 100 m hurdles.
1964
Eric Musselman
American basketball player and coach
Eric Musselman is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at the University of Southern California.
1900
Bunny Ahearne
Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (died 1985)
John Francis "Bunny" Ahearne was a British ice hockey administrator and businessman.
1943
Aurelio Monteagudo
Cuban-American baseball player and manager (died 1990)
Aurelio Faustino Monteagudo Cintra, nicknamed "Monty", was a Cuban right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for parts of seven seasons with the Kansas City Athletics, Houston Astros, Chicago White…
1997
Zach Collins
American basketball player
Zach Collins is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
1934
Kurt Hamrin
Swedish footballer and scout (died 2024)
Kurt Roland "Kurre" Hamrin was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a winger.
1922
Salil Chowdhury
Indian director, playwright, and composer (died 1995)
Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages.
1965
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Brazilian cryptographer and academic
Paulo Licciardi Barreto is a Brazilian-American cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers Anubis and KHAZAD, together with Vincent Rijmen.
1980
Courtney Anderson
American football player
Courtney Jerome Anderson Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL).
1959
Jo Bonner
American politician
Josiah Robins Bonner Jr. is an American academic administrator and former politician who currently serves as the fourth president of the University of South Alabama. He was previously the U.S.
1919
Alan Young
English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (died 2016)
Alan Young was a British actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland…