The 139th day of the year, the 140th in a leap year
Born on 19 May
Every 19 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 19 May in any year.
Which weekday 19 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 May falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 19 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,813 babies were born on 19 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 171st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 19 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 1881–1938 | founding father of the Republic of Turkey |
| Ho Chi Minh | 1890–1969 | Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam |
| Malcolm X | 1925–1965 | American Black rights activist |
| Pol Pot | 1925–1998 | Cambodian politician, leader of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | 1762–1814 | German philosopher |
| Natalia Oreiro | 1977– | Uruguayan actress, singer, host, and model |
| Diego Forlán | 1979– | Uruguayan association football player and manager |
| Andrea Pirlo | 1979– | Italian association football player and manager |
| Nora Ephron | 1941–2012 | American film director and writer |
| Sam Smith | 1992– | British singer-songwriter |
| Julius Evola | 1898–1974 | Italian philosopher and esotericist |
| Max Perutz | 1914–2002 | Austrian-born British molecular biologist |
| James Gosling | 1955– | Canadian computer scientist |
| Pete Townshend | 1945– | British musician |
| Nicholas Winton | 1909–2015 | British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1913–1996 | Sixth President of India |
| Kevin Garnett | 1976– | American basketball player |
| Marshmello | 1992– | American DJ and electronic music producer |
Died on 19 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804–1864 | American author |
| Anne Boleyn | 1501–1536 | second wife of Henry VIII of England |
| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | 1929–1994 | First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 1809–1898 | British Liberal prime minister |
| José Martí | 1853–1895 | Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist |
| Ebrahim Raisi | 1960–2024 | President of Iran from 2021 to 2024 |
| T. E. Lawrence | 1888–1935 | British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat |
| Pope Celestine V | 1215–1296 | Pope in 1294 |
| Henri de Saint-Simon | 1760–1825 | French early socialist theorist |
| Alcuin | died 804 | 8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher |
| Bolesław Prus | 1847–1912 | Polish novelist |
| Dmitry Donskoy | 1350–1389 | Prince of Moscow |
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