Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 19

Births

• 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
• 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
• 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849) (pictured)
• 1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
• 1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress

Deaths

• 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
• 1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Wilson Pickett, soul singer (b. 1941)