Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 19
Births
[edit]- AD 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (pictured) (d. 161)
- 1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- 1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
- 1911 - Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1922 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
- 1928 - Adam West, American actor (d 2017)
- 1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
- 1940 - Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
- 1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor
- 1949 - Twiggy, English model
- 1963 - David Seaman, English footballer
- 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1356 - Killed at Poitiers:
- Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
- Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)
- 1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
- 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
- 1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)