Famous people born on 19 April

• José EchegaraySpanish playwright · 1832–1916
  84 yrs
• Getúlio VargasPresident of Brazil · 1882–1954
  72 yrs
• Glenn Theodore SeaborgAmerican chemist · 1912–1999
  86 yrs
• Jayne MansfieldAmerican actress · 1933–1967
  34 yrs
• Ferdinand I of AustriaAustrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia · 1793–1875
  82 yrs
• Fernando Botero ↗Colombian painter and sculptor · 1932–2023
  91 yrs
• Gustav Fechner ↗German scientist · 1801–1887
  86 yrs
• Gratian ↗Roman emperor from 367 to 383 · AD 359–383
  24 yrs
• John I of Portugal ↗King of Portugal from 1385 to 1433 · 1357–1433
  76 yrs
• Erich Hartmann ↗German officer and fighter pilot during World War II · 1922–1993
  71 yrs
• Dudley Moore ↗British actor, comedian, composer and musician · 1935–2002
  66 yrs
• Andronikos IV Palaiologos ↗Byzantine emperor · 1348–1385
  37 yrs
• Jiroemon Kimura ↗Japanese supercentenarian, verified longest–lived man in history · 1897–2013
  116 yrs
• Wilfried Martens ↗Belgian politician · 1936–2013
  77 yrs
• Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ↗German biologist · 1795–1876
  81 yrs
• Fred Brooks ↗American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering · 1931–2022
  91 yrs
• Lucretia Garfield ↗First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881 · 1832–1918
  85 yrs
• Trevor Francis ↗English association football player and manager · 1954–2023
  69 yrs
• James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth ↗English nobleman and soldier · 1649–1685
  36 yrs
• Richard von Mises ↗Austrian physicist and mathematician · 1883–1953
  70 yrs
• Aleksandr Ptushko ↗Soviet animation and fantasy film director · 1900–1973
  72 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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