About May 19th

Sun Sign
♉ Taurus
Earth · Venus
reliable, patient, practical, devoted
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Birthstone
Emerald
Deep green
Rebirth, fertility, wisdom
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Birth Flower
Lily of the Valley
Hawthorn
Happiness, humility, sweetness
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Celtic Tree
Hawthorn
Huath
creative, multi-talented, ironic, curious
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231 Notable deaths

Top causes of death

6 Pneumonia
5 Myocardial Infarction
5 Cancer
4 Heart Failure
4 Pancreatic Cancer

Top death years

7 2018
7 2025
6 2021
6 2020
5 1942

Deaths by gender

194 Male
37 Female

Top death places

10 Moscow
6 Vienna
6 New York City
5 Berlin
5 Los Angeles

Top 5 notable deaths.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

First lady of the united states from 1961 to 1963.

Born July 28th, 1929 in Southampton.

Died May 19th, 1994 at 64 years old in New York City (non-Hodgkin lymphoma).

T. E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935).

Born August 16th, 1888 in Tremadog.

Died May 19th, 1935 at 46 years old in Bovington Camp (traffic collision, motorcycle accident). [ref]

Jamsetji Tata

Indian industrialist, founder of the tata group (born 1839).

Born March 3rd, 1839 in Navsari.

Died May 19th, 1904 at 65 years old in Bad Nauheim.

Stanislav Petrov

Officer of the soviet air defence forces, noted for not executing a nuclear strike during a nuclear false alarm incident (1939-2017).

Born September 7th, 1939 in Vladivostok. [ref]

Died May 19th, 2017 at 77 years old in Fryazino (pneumonia). [ref]

Ebrahim Raisi

President of iran from 2021 to 2024.

Born December 14th, 1960 in Mashhad.

Died May 19th, 2024 at 63 years old in Bakrabad Rural District (helicopter crash). [ref]

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Top birth years

16 1993
15 1981
13 1992
13 1987
11 1956

Birthdays by gender

430 Male
131 Female
2 Non Binary

Top birth places

9 London
7 Berlin
5 Rome
5 Philadelphia
4 Melbourne

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche