October 19th, 1742

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Born on October 19th, 1742 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on October 19th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on October 19th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (October 1742)

Born on October 19th, 1742

Weekday

Friday

October 19th, 1742 was a Friday.

Age

281

People born on October 19th, 1742 will turn 282 this year (2024), in exactly 174 days .

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

September 24th, 1742 - October 23rd, 1742

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 102,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 175 days, exactly on October 20th, 2024, people who were born on October 19th, 1742 will be 103,000 days old!

102,825 Days

14,689 Weeks

3,378 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 19th?

October 19th, 2017

Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.

October 19th, 2013

British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.

October 19th, 2005

Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).

October 19th, 1988

The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.

October 19th, 1987

Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.

October 19th, 1955

At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

October 19th, 1943

World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.

October 19th, 1914

First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres.

October 19th, 1864

American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

October 19th, 1781

American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.

October 19th, 1752

The Pennsylvania Gazette published a statement by Benjamin Franklin describing a kite experiment (depicted) to determine the electrical nature of lightning.

October 19th, 1596

The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō.

October 19th, 1579

A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.

October 19th, 2019

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

October 19th, 2013

One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 19th

Born on October 19th, 1742

Pedro Lucas de Allende

Argentine military personnel

*October 19th, 1742, Córdoba †April 15th, 1801, Córdoba

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 19th?

Alexander Held

German actor

*October 19th, 1958, Munich

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

Michael Gambon

British actor (1940–2023)

*October 19th, 1940, Dublin †September 27th, 2023, Witham

John le Carré

British novelist and spy (1931-2020)

*October 19th, 1931, Poole †December 12th, 2020, Royal Cornwall Hospital

Nikolija Jovanović

Serbian singer and rapper

*October 19th, 1989, Zagreb

Jürgen Croy

East German association football player and manager

*October 19th, 1946, Zwickau

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Indian-American astrophysicist

*October 19th, 1910, Lahore †August 21st, 1995, Chicago

Ken Stott

British actor

*October 19th, 1954, Edinburgh

Jennifer Holliday

American actress and singer

*October 19th, 1960, Houston

Philip Pullman

English author

*October 19th, 1946, Norwich

Caroline Catz

British film, television, theatre and radio actress

*October 19th, 1969, Manchester

Leigh Hunt

British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)

*October 19th, 1784, Southgate †August 28th, 1859, Putney

Robert Beatty

Canadian actor (1909-1992)

*October 19th, 1909, Hamilton †March 3rd, 1992, London

Evander Holyfield

American boxer

*October 19th, 1962, Atmore

Jon Favreau

American actor and filmmaker (born 1966)

*October 19th, 1966, New York City

Kacey Ainsworth

Actress

*October 19th, 1968, London

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Hans Alwin Ketels

German politician (1913-2017)

*October 19th, 1913, Osterhever †April 12th, 2017, Garding

Ty Parker

American actor

*October 19th, 1998, Louisiana

Cassius M. Clay

American planter, politician and ambassador to Russia (1810-1903)

*October 19th, 1810, Madison County †July 22nd, 1903, Madison County

Angus Deaton

British microeconomist

*October 19th, 1945, Edinburgh

Same year
Born in 1742

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen

*December 9th, 1742, Stralsund †May 21st, 1786, Köping

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)

*December 16th, 1742, Rostock †September 12th, 1819, Krobielowice

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)

*April 28th, 1742, Dalkeith †May 28th, 1811, Edinburgh

Jean Baptiste Treilhard

French judge and diplomat (1742-1810)

*January 3rd, 1742, Brive-la-Gaillarde †December 5th, 1810, Paris

Pius VII

Head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823

*August 14th, 1742, Cesena †August 20th, 1823, Rome

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist, satirist

*July 1st, 1742, Ober-Ramstadt †February 24th, 1799, Göttingen

Jean Cesar Godeffroy

Merchant from Hamburg (1742-1818)

*October 16th, 1742, Hamburg †May 7th, 1818, Hamburg

Jean-Louis Carra

French journalist and politician

*March 9th, 1742, Pont-de-Veyle †October 31st, 1793, Paris

Jean Senebier

Genevan botanist

*May 6th, 1742, Geneva †July 22nd, 1809, Geneva

Johann Heinrich Tischbein

German 1742–1808 F:0

*November 28th, 1742, Haina †December 22nd, 1808, Kassel

Ignaz von Born

Czech mineralogist and nobleman (1742-1791)

*December 26th, 1742, Cavnic †July 24th, 1791, Vienna

Johan Herman Wessel

Norwegian-Danish writer

*October 6th, 1742, Vestby Municipality †December 29th, 1785, Copenhagen

Jean Dauberval

French ballet dancer and choreographer

*August 19th, 1742, Montpellier †February 14th, 1806, Tours

Claus von der Decken

German politician (1742-1826)

*January 5th, 1742, Rittershausen †February 10th, 1826, Hanover

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France (1742-1819)

*December 8th, 1742, Laon †December 21st, 1819, Paris

Johann Ernst Schulz

German author and theologian

*December 20th, 1742, East Prussia †April 9th, 1806, Königsberg

Ozias Humphry

British artist (1742-1810)

*September 8th, 1742, Honiton †March 9th, 1810, London

Charlotte von Stein

Lady-in-waiting at the court in Weimar; close friend to both Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

*December 25th, 1742, Eisenach †January 6th, 1827, Weimar

Félix Máximo López

*November 18th, 1742, Madrid †April 9th, 1821, Madrid

Alexei Wassiljewitsch Naryschkin

*August 4th, 1742, Moscow †August 20th, 1800, Moscow

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 19th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on October 19th.

Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niue_Constitution_Act

Oxfordshire Day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordshire_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XIX.X.MDCCXLII

19.10.1742

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

XL = 40

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1742 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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October 19th, 1742

Born on October 19th, 1742

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 102,000 days old!

102,825 Days

14,689 Weeks

3,378 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 19th?

Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.

British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.

Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).

The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.

Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.

At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.

First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres.

American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.

The Pennsylvania Gazette published a statement by Benjamin Franklin describing a kite experiment (depicted) to determine the electrical nature of lightning.

The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō.

A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 19th

Born on October 19th, 1742

Argentine military personnel

Same Day Who's birthday is on October 19th?

Same year Born in 1742

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 19th

Aaron (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Aquilinus of Évreux

Desiderius (Didier) of Auxerre

Frideswide

Henry Martyn (Anglican Communion)

Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions

Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko

Paul of the Cross

Ptolemaeus and Lucius

Varus

Veranus of Cavaillon

William Carey (Episcopal Church)

October 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue)

Oxfordshire Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

19.10.1742

Legend

Leap year

Calendar October 1742

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Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 102,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 19th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 19th?

Same year
Born in 1742

Calendar
October 1742

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