December 19th

Professional

•   Russia - Day of the military counterintelligence units of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
•   Ukraine - Bar Day .

  Religious

  Orthodoxy

- memory of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of the World of Lycian, the miracle worker (d. C. 335)

- memory of St. Theophilos the Confessor, Bishop of Antioch (d. 181)

- memory of St. Nicholas , Bishop of Patara (d. IV)

- Blessed Maxim , Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia (d. 1305)

- memory of the martyr Nicholas Karaman , Smirnskago (d. 1657)

Until the 20th century.

• 1863 - Englishman Frederick Walton patented linoleum .

XX century

• 1904 - destroyers Vlastny and Skory broke through from Port Arthur to Chifu (China).
• 1918 - Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars on the creation of Special Divisions (military counterintelligence) in the units of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.
• 1939
  • At a meeting of the Defense Committee, according to the results of the A-32 tests, a resolution No. 443 was adopted on the adoption of the T-34 tank for the Red Army.
  • By a resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of December 19, 1939 (a day after the tests), the KV-1 tank was adopted by the Red Army.
• 1943
  • The Kalinin Suvorov Military School was founded (now Tver).
  • The Oryol Suvorov Military School in Yelets was founded. In 1947, it was transferred to Sverdlovsk and was renamed the Sverdlovsk IED (now Yekaterinburg).
• 1944 - the beginning of the battle for Bastogne .
• 1946 - the beginning of the French war in Indochina .
• 1965 - Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France .
• 1970 - An-22 catastrophe in Panagarh ( India ). Killed 17 people.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 returns to Earth . The lunar program is minimized.
• 1980 - Tarasa Shevchenko , Petrovka , and Korneychuk Avenue (now Obolon) metro stations were opened in Kiev .
• 1981 - Kiev Metro station “Leo Tolstoy Square” and “Republican Stadium” (now “Olympic”) were opened.
• 1983 - a statuette of the original Jules Rimet Football Cup was stolen from the building of the Brazilian Football Federation.
• 1985 - Theft of the An-24 aircraft to China .
• 1991 - awarded the last in the history of the Order of the Red Star .
• 1997
  • The premiere of the film " Titanic " (directed by J. Cameron )
  • The crash of a Boeing 737 near Palembang

21st Century

• 2007 - Lakota activists proclaim the independence of the Republic of Lakota
• 2010 - opposition rally suppressed in Minsk on the day of the presidential election ^[2]

Until the 19th century

• 1683 - Philip V (d. 1746 ), king of Spain (1700-1724 and 1724-1746).
• 1773 - Prince Alexander Golitsyn (d. 1844 ), Minister of Education of the Russian Empire (1816-1824).
• 1778 - Maria Theresa of France (d. 1851 ), Queen of France (in 1830), daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette .
• 1782 - Jose da Silva Carvalho (d. 1856 ), Portuguese statesman.
• 1788 - Prince Sergey Volkonsky (d. 1865 ), Russian general, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 , Decembrist .

XIX century

• 1817 - James Archer (d. 1864 ), American general, participant in the Civil War on the side of the South.
• 1819 - James Spriggs Payne (d. 1882 ), the fourth (1868–1870) and eighth (1876–1878) president of Liberia .
• 1830 - Daniil Mordovtsev (d. 1905 ), Russian writer, historian, publicist.
• 1841 - Nikolai Leikin (d. 1906 ), Russian writer and journalist.
• 1846 - Peter Astafiev (d. 1893 ), Russian philosopher, psychologist, publicist.
• 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson (d. 1931 ), American physicist who measured the speed of light , Nobel laureate (1907).
• 1864 - Adolf Sandberger (d. 1943 ), German composer and musicologist.
• 1875 - Mileva Marich (d. 1948 ), the first wife of Albert Einstein , a teacher of physics and mathematics.
• 1900 - Nikolai Tomsky (d. 1984 ), sculptor-muralist, president of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1968-1983), people's artist of the USSR.

XX century

• 1902 - Nikolai Chaplin (executed in 1938 ), Soviet party leader, in 1924-1928 - head of the Komsomol .
• 1905 - Nikolai Kharlamov (d. 1983 ), Soviet admiral and diplomat.
• 1906 - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (d. 1982 ), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, leader of the USSR (1964-1982).
• 1910
  • Jose Lesama Lima (d. 1976 ), Cuban poet, prose writer, essayist.
  • Jean Genet (d. 1986 ), French writer, poet and playwright.
  • Nikolai Gribachev (d. 1992 ), Soviet writer and statesman.
• 1913 - Nikolai Amosov (d. 2002 ), Soviet and Ukrainian thoracic surgeon, medical scientist, writer.
• 1915 - Edith Piaf (d. 1963 ), French singer, chansonnier.
• 1919 - Andrei Petrov (d. 1990 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1923 - Nikolai Skorobogatov (d. 1987 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1923 - Gordon Jackson (d. 1990 ), Scottish actor, winner of the Emmy Award.
• 1924 - Michelle Tournier (d. 2016 ), French writer, winner of the Goncourt Prize (1970).
• 1927 - Nikolay Izmerov (d. 2016 ), Soviet and Russian hygienist scientist, one of the founders of occupational medicine in the Russian Federation, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 1933 - Galina Volchek , actress, theater director and teacher, artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1938 - Karel Svoboda (d. 2007 ), Czech film composer.
• 1942 - Nikolai Antoshkin , Honored Military Pilot of Russia, Colonel General, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1944 - Anastasia Vertinskaya , actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1957 - Kevin McHale , American basketball player.
• 1962 - Elena Fanailova , Soviet and Russian poetess.
• 1963 - Til Schweiger , German actor, director and producer.
• 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis , Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player.
• 1969 - Christine Swanson , American actress.
• 1972 - Alyssa Milano , American actress and singer.
• 1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova , Russian and Kazakhstani cyclist.
• 1975 - Vladimir Kristovsky , Russian musician, leader of the band “ Uma2rmaH ”.
• 1977 - Irina Voronina , an American fashion model of Russian origin.
• 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor.
• 1982 - Thero Pitkamäki , Finnish athlete, javelin thrower .
• 1988 - Alexis Sanchez , Chilean footballer.

Until the 19th century

• 1370 - Urban V (in the world of Guillaume de Grimaur ; p. 1310 ), the 200th pope (1362–1370).
• 1741 - Vitus Bering (b. 1681 ), a Russian navigator of Danish origin, after whom the Bering Strait is named.
• 1796 - Count Peter Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky (b. 1725 ), Russian commander and military theorist, field marshal.

XIX century

• 1848 - Emily Bronte (b. 1818 ), English writer.
• 1851 - Joseph Mallord William Turner (b. 1775 ), English romantic painter.
• 1860 - Konstantin Aksakov (b. 1817 ), Russian publicist, historian, philologist, poet.
• 1865 - Vsevolod Kostomarov (b. 1837 ), Russian poet and translator.
• 1866 - Mikhail Petrashevsky (b. 1821 ), Russian thinker and public figure.
• 1868 - Prince Alexander Dolgorukov (b. 1793 ), Russian poet and prose writer, participant in the Battle of Borodino .
• 1871 - Konstantin Lyadov (b. 1820 ), Russian conductor, pianist and composer, father of the composer Anatoly Lyadov .
• 1878 - Bayard Taylor (b. 1825 ), American diplomat, journalist, writer.
• 1889 - Ivan Glazunov (b. 1826 ), Russian publisher and bookseller, privy councilor, mayor of St. Petersburg .
• 1890 - Eugene Louis Lamy (b. 1800 ), French painter.

XX century

• 1915 - Alois Alzheimer (b. 1864 ), a German psychiatrist and neurologist named after presenile psychosis .
• 1931 - Rene Borjas (b. 1897 ), Uruguayan soccer player, Olympic champion (1928).
• 1939 - Dmitry Grave (b. 1863 ), Ukrainian mathematician, honorary academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1941
  • Alexander Vvedensky (b. 1904 ), Russian poet, children's writer.
  • Lev Dovator died (b. 1903 ), Soviet military leader, major general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1943 - Al Demi died (b. 1918 ), an anti-fascist partisan, the national Hero of Albania .
• 1948 - Amir Sharifuddin (b. 1907 ), Indonesian politician.
• 1953 - Robert Andrews Millikan (b. 1868 ), American physicist, Nobel laureate (1923).
• 1954 - Victor Abakumov (b. 1908 ), Soviet statesman and military leader, colonel general was executed.
• 1963
  • Alan Henderson Gardiner (b. 1879 ), an English Egyptologist who discovered the Leiden Papyrus.
  • Leo Kiacheli (b. 1884 ), Georgian writer, laureate of the USSR State Prize.
• 1965
  • Emil Kio (b. 1894 ), Soviet circus artist, illusionist.
  • Mauritius Slepnev (b. 1896 ), Soviet pilot, 5th Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1982 - Boris Smirnov (b. 1908 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1994 - Vadim Kozin (b. 1905 ), Soviet pop singer, songwriter, public idol in the 30-40s.
• 1996
  • Yuri Kiselev (b. 1914 ), theater director, actor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
  • Marcello Mastroianni (b. 1924 ), Italian film actor.
• 1997 - Fedor Simashev (b. 1945 ), Soviet skier, Olympic champion (1972), world champion.
• 1998 - Masaru Ibuka (b. 1908 ), one of the founders of the Japanese company Sony .
• 2000 - Diodorus (b. 1923 ), bishop of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church, in 1981-2000 - Patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine.

21st Century

• 2002
  • Boris Levinson (born 1919 ), theater director, actor, people's artist of Russia.
  • Hrant Matevosyan (b. 1935 ), Armenian Soviet writer.
  • Kote Makharadze (b. 1926 ), Soviet sports commentator, television presenter and actor.
  • Alexander Tovstonogov (b. 1944 ), Soviet and Russian theater director and actor.
• 2003
  • Dmitry Avaliani (b. 1938 ), Russian poet, palindromist .
  • Jan Fried (b. 1908 ), Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• 2004
  • Herbert Charles Brown (b. 1912 ), American organic chemist, Nobel laureate (1979).
  • Renata Tebaldi (b. 1922 ), Italian opera singer (lyrical soprano).
• 2009 - Kim Peak (b. 1951 ), an American with a phenomenal memory, the prototype of the hero of the film " Rain Man ".
• 2012 - Nikolai Khlopkin (b. 1923 ), Soviet and Russian nuclear scientist , academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 2015 - Kurt Mazur (b. 1927 ), German conductor.