April 19
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Art and culture
- 1012 – Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
- 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
- 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
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Births
- 1836 - Ferdinand Cheval known as le facteur Cheval, creator of the Palais idéal (d. 1924).
- 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
- 1928 - William Klein, American photographer and filmmaker.
- 1932 - Sergio Dangelo, Italian avant-garde artist
- 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
- 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
- 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
- 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
- 1949 – Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
- 1953 – Ruby Wax, British television personality
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Deaths
- 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
- 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
- 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
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