Famous people born on 19 September

• William GoldingBritish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate · 1911–1993
  81 yrs
• Julius IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555 · 1487–1555
  67 yrs
• Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer · 1926–2020
  94 yrs
• Emil Zátopek ↗Czech long-distance runner · 1922–2000
  78 yrs
• Lajos Kossuth ↗Hungarian politician · 1802–1894
  91 yrs
• Paulo Freire ↗Lawyer, college teacher, author · 1921–1997
  75 yrs
• Mika Waltari ↗Finnish writer · 1908–1979
  70 yrs
• Giuseppe Saragat ↗5th President of Italy · 1898–1988
  89 yrs
• Cass Elliot ↗American singer · 1941–1974
  32 yrs
• Adam West ↗American actor · 1928–2017
  88 yrs
• Brian Epstein ↗British personal manager and impresario · 1934–1967
  32 yrs
• Hiroto Muraoka ↗Japanese association football player · 1931–2017
  85 yrs
• David McCallum ↗Scottish actor · 1933–2023
  90 yrs
• Victor Weisskopf ↗Austrian American theoretical physicist · 1908–2002
  93 yrs
• Al Oerter ↗American athlete · 1936–2007
  71 yrs
• Dana Zátopková ↗Czech javelin thrower · 1922–2020
  97 yrs
• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre ↗French mathematician and astronomer · 1749–1822
  72 yrs
• Arthur Rackham ↗English book illustrator · 1867–1939
  71 yrs
• Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters ↗German-American academic and astronomer · 1813–1890
  76 yrs
• Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti ↗Italian cardinal and hyperpolyglot · 1774–1849
  74 yrs
• Frances Farmer ↗American actress · 1913–1970
  56 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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