Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 19

Births

• 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
• 1882 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969) (pictured)
• 1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
• 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
• 1945 – Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
• 1951 – Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
• 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
• 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)