Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 19
Births
- 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957) (pictured)
- 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
- 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
Deaths
- 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
- 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
- 1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
- 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)