Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 19

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Births

1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957) (pictured)
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1946 – Tim Curry, British actor

Deaths

1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)