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On This Day · The 200th day of the year

July 19

July 19's record stretches 1,013 years, from 998 to 2011. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and conflict is a recurring thread.

♋ZodiacCancer ◈BirthstoneRuby ❀Birth flowerLarkspur

Cancer is the sign for July 19 — read more on the Cancer page, or see July's birthstone & birth flower.

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What happened on July 19?

July 19 is the 200th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 998 and 2011. Famous people born on July 19 include Brian May, Vitali Klitschko and Demi Moore.

Released on July 19

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • TV Nukitashi the Animation

2024

  • Game EA Sports College Football 25
  • Game Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

2023

  • Movie Barbie

2022

  • Game As Dusk Falls
  • Game Stray
  • Game Endling: Extinction is Forever

2021

  • Game Cris Tales

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 998

    Arab–Byzantine wars

  2. 1702

    Great Northern War

  3. 1845

    Great New York City Fire of 1845

  4. 1903

    Maurice Garin

  5. 1916

    World War I

  6. 1940

    World War II

  7. 1947

    Myanmar

  8. 1992

    Via D'Amelio bombing

  9. 1997

    The Troubles

  10. 2011

    Guinea

Famous birthday twins

Born on July 19

Brian May

b. 1947

Vitali Klitschko

b. 1971

Demi Moore

b. 1950

Seraphim of Sarov

b. 1759

Edgar Degas

b. 1834

Vince Spadea

b. 1974

Herbert Marcuse

b. 1898

Princess Augusta of Cambridge

b. 1822

Deaths

  • 2014James Garner
  • 2013Peter Ziegler
  • 1989Kazimierz Sabbat
  • 1980Hans Morgenthau
  • 1374Petrarch
  • 1234Floris IV

Holidays & observances

  • —Palace Day
  • —Christian feast day: Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht
  • —Christian feast day: Justa and Rufina
  • —Christian feast day: Kirdjun (or Abakerazum)
  • —Christian feast day: Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great
  • —Christian feast day: Symmachus
  • —Christian feast day: July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • —Martyrs' Day (Myanmar)

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