November 19: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is November 19th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on November 19th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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November 19th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

November 19th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, builder and architect (The Suez Canal), was born on November 19, 1805.

Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (Armenian Rhapsody) was born on November 19, 1859.

Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (Angel and Hagar, Life of St. Bruno, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, St. Paul Preaching at Ephesus and Tobias and Tobi), was born on November 19, 1616.

Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish Baroque painter (Artemisia, Design of a Triumphal Arch, Garland of Flowers with the Holy Family, Maria met Kind, Sainte-Catherine au Mont Sinai, Martyre de Saint Laurent and Saint Thomas Touching Christ's Wounds), was born on November 19, 1607.

Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish-Icelandic sculptor (Christus, Copernicus and Dying Lion), was born on November 19, 1770.

Louis Tocque, French painter (Portrait of Ekaterina Golovkina, Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov and Portrait of Louis Grand Dauphin of France) was born on November 19, 1696.

Emile C. Wauters, Belgian Romantic painter (The Battle of Hastings: the Finding of the Body of Harold by Edith, Cairo from the Bridge of Kasr-el-Nil, Gitana Prisonnière, The Great Mosque, The Great Nave of St. Mark's, Harvest of a Journey to Spain and Tangiers, Madness of Hugo Van der Goes, The Scholar at the Table

Serpent Charmers of Sokko, Sobieski and his Staff Before Besieged Vienna and Van der Goes in the Red Monastery), was born on November 19, 1846.

November 19th Birthdays: Famous Athletes