What happened in 2019?
493 recorded events in 2019, including 296 in people, 54 in sports & entertainment and 33 in disasters & pandemics. A further event is dated only to the wider period.
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Major Events 1
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Notre-Dame Cathedral fire
A major fire severely damages the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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Wars & Conflicts 15
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Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
Battle fought in 2019 during the Syrian Civil War involving ISIL and the Syrian Democratic Forces
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2019 Hong Kong Polytechnic University conflict
2019 conflict between Hong Kong police and protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Arbinda attack
2019 militant attack in Burkina Faso
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Battle of Derna
Battle in Libya fought from 2018 to 2019
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Battle of Culiacán
2019 Mexican National Guard operation to capture Ovidio Guzmán López
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Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Conflict during 2019–20 Hong Kong protests
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2019 Southern Yemen clashes
Conflict between the STC and the Hadi-led government
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Battle of the Jabara Valley
2019 battle in the Yemeni Civil War
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2019 Koutougou attack
2019 battle in Burkina Faso
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Battle of Boulikessi (2019)
2019 conflict in the Mali War
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Battle of Kouri Bougoudi
2019 battle
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Second Battle of Ras al-Ayn
2019 battle in the Syrian civil war
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JNIM-ISGS War
Armed conflict
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Battle of Darak
Battle of Darak (Wars & Conflicts).
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Battle of Al-Watiya Airbase
Battle of Al-Watiya Airbase (Wars & Conflicts).
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Politics & Government 7
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Treaty of Aachen
Bilateral agreement between Germany and France
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2019 Sudanese coup d'état
Military coup against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on 10 April 2019
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Moscow City Duma election, 2019
Election held in Moscow, Russia
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Regional Roaming Agreement
International agreement
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Riyadh Agreement
2019 agreement to end hostilities between the Hadi government of Yemen and the Southern Transitional Council
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Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic
International maritime treaty
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Treaty for the Establishment of the African Medicines Agency
International treaty to establish the African Medicines Agency, to address availability and quality of medical products in Africa
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People 296
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Jean Starobinski died
Swiss writer (1920-2019)
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Martin Feldstein died
American economist (1939–2019)
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Mohamed Morsi died
President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
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Murray Gell-Mann died
American physicist (1929–2019)
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Alexey Leonov died
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)
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Zhores Alferov died
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
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B. J. Habibie died
3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)
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Sydney Brenner died
South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 (1927–2019)
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David J. Thouless died
British physicist (1934–2019)
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Kary Mullis died
American biochemist (1944–2019)
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Manfred Eigen died
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
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John Robert Schrieffer died
American physicist (1931-2019)
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Nipsey Hussle died
American rapper (1985–2019)
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Albert Razin died
Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist
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Shelley Lubben died
Author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornographic actress (1968-2019)
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Molara Ogundipe died
Nigerian writer
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Borka Pavićević died
Dramaturge, newspaper columnist, activist (1947-2019)
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Sahar Khodayari died
Iranian football fan
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Yelena Grigoryeva died
Russian LGBT rights activist
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Doris Day died
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
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Peter Fonda died
American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)
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Rutger Hauer died
Dutch actor (1944–2019)
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Albert Finney died
British actor (1936–2019)
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Pierre Riché died
French historian (1921-2019)
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Roberto Fernández Retamar died
Cuban politician and writer (1930-2019)
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Ambachew Mekonnen died
Ethiopian politician
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Dominique Noguez died
French writer and film critic (1942–2019)
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Julio César Trujillo died
Ecuadorian politician
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Alain de Mijolla died
French psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1933–2019)
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Jean Guiart died
French anthropologist (1925-2019)
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Jean-Maurice Rouquette died
French historian (1931–2019)
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André Damien died
French politician, writer and lawyer (1930–2019)
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Jacques Boyon died
French politician (1934–2019)
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Joseph Gourmelon died
French politician (1938-2019)
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Bertrand Collomb died
French business executive (1942–2019)
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Georges Mesmin died
French politician and official (1926-2019)
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Georgette Elgey died
French historian and journalist (1929-2019)
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Haïm Vidal Séphiha died
Belgian linguist, university teacher and Holocaust survivor (1923-2019)
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Xavier Gouyou-Beauchamps died
French official (1937–2019)
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Yury Luzhkov died
Russian politician (1936–2019)
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Michael Atiyah died
British mathematician
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Lee Iacocca died
American businessman (1924–2019)
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Valery Bykovsky died
Soviet cosmonaut (1934-2019)
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David Koch died
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
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Kevin Roche died
Irish-born American architect (1922-2019)
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Nikolai Kardashev died
Soviet and Russian astronomer
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Christopher C. Kraft died
American aerospace engineer (1924–2019)
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John Tate died
American mathematician (1925-2019)
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Fernando J. Corbató died
American computer scientist (1926–2019)
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Luciano De Crescenzo died
Italian writer and engineer (1928–2019)
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Gene Wolfe died
American science fiction and fantasy writer (1931–2019)
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Owen K. Garriott died
American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)
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Moshe Arens died
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset, and professor of aeronautics (1925-2019)
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Ferdinand Piëch died
Austrian manager (1937-2019)
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Gorō Shimura died
Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)
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Mitchell Feigenbaum died
American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)
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Harold Brown died
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1927-2019)
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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba died
Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)
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Patricia Bath died
American ophthalmologist and inventor (1942-2019)
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Barbara Hillary died
American adventurer (1931-2019)
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Howard Samuel Irwin died
American botanist and taxonomist (1928-2019)
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Julia Nicol died
South African LGBT+ activist and librarian
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Denise DuBarry died
American actress and activist (1956-2019)
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María Auxiliadora Delgado died
Uruguayan civil servant (1937–2019)
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Su Beng died
Activist and former Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan (1918–2019)
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Carmen Duncan died
Australian actress
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Jaya Arunachalam died
Women welfare activist (1935–2019)
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Conxita Grangé i Beleta died
Spanish activist; member of the French Resistance during WW2 (1925-2019)
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Rawshan Ara Bachchu died
Bangladeshi activist
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Franz Weber died
Swiss activist (1927-2019)
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Michirō Endō died
Japanese musical artist (1950–2019)
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Şule Yüksel Şenler died
Turkish writer (1938–2019)
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Kim Bok-dong died
South Korean activist (1926-2019)
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Theresa Burroughs died
American civil rights activist
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Sana Solh died
Lebanese political activist
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Kochavi Shemesh died
Israeli lawyer and social activist of the Black Panthers movement (1944-2019)
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Félicienne Lusamba Villoz-Muamba died
DRC-Swiss politician and jurist
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Abou Iyadh died
Tunisian islamist militant (1965–2019)
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Roberta L. Raymond died
Actor (1938-2019)
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James Hart Stern died
American civil rights activist
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S.M. Mohamed Idris died
Malaysian activist
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Sam Watson died
Indigenous Australian activist (1952-2019)
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Charlot Jeudy died
Haitian activist
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Laila Nur died
Bangladeshi academic
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Miriam Butterworth died
American educator, activist, politician, historian and writer (1918-2019)
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Luis Ortiz Alfau died
Spanish activist (1916-2019)
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Telésforo Santiago Enriquez died
Periodista mexicano
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Magaly Quintana died
Nicaraguan feminist historian and activist
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Nikki Araguz died
American same-sex marriage activist (1975-2019)
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Nehanda Abiodun died
African American hip hop activist (1950–2019)
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Alia Abdulnoor died
Activist, was arrested and died tied up to a bed from breast cancer
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Isaac Lesiba Maphotho died
South African anti-apartheid activist (1931-2019)
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Julia Grant died
British transgender activist
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Franco Zeffirelli died
Italian director and politician (1923-2019)
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Tim Conway died
American actor and comedian (1933–2019)
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Luke Perry died
American actor (1966–2019)
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Michel Legrand died
French film score composer (1932–2019)
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João Gilberto died
Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)
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Anna Karina died
Danish-French actress (1940–2019)
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Georgiy Daneliya died
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1930–2019)
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Matti Nykänen died
Finnish ski jumper (1963–2019)
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Cameron Boyce died
American actor (1999–2019)
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Peter Mayhew died
British-American actor
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Marie Fredriksson died
Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette (1958–2019)
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Rip Torn died
American actor (1931–2019)
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Bob Einstein died
American comedian, actor (1942–2019)
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Karel Gott died
Czech singer and actor (1939–2019)
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Carol Channing died
American actress (1921–2019)
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Sulli died
South Korean singer and actress (1994-2019)
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Marie Laforêt died
French-Swiss singer and actress
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Danny Aiello died
American actor
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Robert Forster died
American actor (1941–2019)
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Edith González died
Mexican actress (1964-2019)
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Goo Hara died
South Korean pop singer (1991–2019)
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André Previn died
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
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Diahann Carroll died
American actress, singer, model and activist (1935–2019)
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René Auberjonois died
American actor (1940–2019)
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Valentina Cortese died
Italian actress (1923–2019)
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Keith Flint died
British singer and musician (1969-2019)
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Julie Adams died
American actress (1926–2019)
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Ginger Baker died
British drummer (1939–2019)
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Sue Lyon died
American actress (1946–2019)
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Peggy Lipton died
American actress and singer (1946-2019)
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Claudine Auger died
French actress (1941-2019)
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Katherine Helmond died
American actress (1929–2019)
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John Singleton died
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1968–2019)
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Harrison Dillard died
American athlete (1923–2019)
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Gloria Vanderbilt died
American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
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Chuy Bravo died
Mexican-American comedian and actor (1956-2019)
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Valerie Harper died
American actress (1939-2019)
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Caroll Spinney died
American puppeteer (1933–2019)
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Roland Matthes died
German swimmer (1950–2019)
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Branko Lustig died
Croatian film producer (1932–2019)
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Seymour Cassel died
American actor (1935–2019)
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Dr. John died
American singer-songwriter (1941-2019)
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Johnny Clegg died
British and South African musician, anthropologist and anti-apartheid icon
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Girish Karnad died
Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
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Godfrey Gao died
Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model (1984-2019)
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Carmen Argenziano died
Actor from the United States (1943-2019)
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Machiko Kyō died
Japanese actress (1924-2019)
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Sylvia Miles died
American actress (1924-2019)
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Michael J. Pollard died
American actor (1939–2019)
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Scott Walker died
British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (1943–2019)
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Lee Radziwill died
American socialite (1933–2019)
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Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp died
American mathematician (1940-2019)
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Ken Kavanagh died
Australian motorcycle racer (1923-2019)
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Stanton T. Friedman died
American ufologist (1934–2019)
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Luigi Colani died
German industrial designer and design professor (1928-2019)
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Henry E. Holt died
Astronomer (1929–2019)
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Walter Munk died
American oceanographer (1917–2019)
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Gianni De Michelis died
Italian politician (1940–2019)
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Charles Kittel died
American physicist (1916–2019)
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Carlo Maria Abate died
Italian racing driver (1932-2019)
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Mary L. Good died
American chemist (1931–2019)
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Kornel Morawiecki died
Polish politician (1941-2019)
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Joe Armstrong died
British computer scientist (1950-2019)
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Jacques Diouf died
Senegalese politician (1938–2019)
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Wolfgang Rindler died
Austrian physicist (1924–2019)
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Chuck Peddle died
American electrical engineer (1937-2019)
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Yuri Artsutanov died
Russian engineer (1929–2019)
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Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof died
Polish-French engineer and Esperantist
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Aharon Razin died
Israeli biochemist (1935-2019)
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Vahakn Dadrian died
American academic (1926–2019)
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Richard Askey died
American mathematician known for his expertise in the area of special functions (1933–2019)
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George Laurer died
American inventor
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Chris Dobson died
British chemist (1949-2019)
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Brian Stowell died
Manx writer
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Suzanne Eaton died
American molecular biologist
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Lodewijk Woltjer died
Dutch astronomer (1930-2019)
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Geoffrey Chew died
American theoretical physicist (1924–2019)
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Robin Herd died
English engineer, designer, and businessman (1939–2019)
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Gary Starkweather died
American inventor and engineer (1938–2019)
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Vicente Álvarez Areces died
Politician (1943–2019)
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Elizabeth Edgar died
New Zealand botanist (1929–2019)
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Gustav Andreas Tammann died
Swiss astronomer (1932-2019)
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Egon Balas died
American mathematician (1922–2019)
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Nikola Hajdin died
Serbian engineer
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Lowell North died
American sailor (1929-2019)
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Alberto Goldman died
Brazilian politician (1934-2019)
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Nils John Nilsson died
American computer scientist and AI researcher (1933-2019)
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Tim Fischer died
Australian politician, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1946–2019)
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Stewart Adams died
British chemist known for inventing ibuprofen
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Calvin Quate died
American electrical engineer (1923–2019)
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Vladimir Boltyansky died
Russian mathematician
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Patrick Winston died
American computer scientist (1943-2019)
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Michael Woolfson died
British physicist (1927–2019)
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Michael Rossmann died
German-American physicist and microbiologist
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Muhammad Shahrur died
Syrian Islamic scholar (1938–2019)
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E Dongchen died
Chinese earth scientist and polar explorer
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Trevor Clifford died
Australian botanist, palaeontologist and explorer
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Michal Marek died
Polish cave diver
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Susan Rathbone died
Chinese-born community leader in New York
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Melissa Ede died
English transgender rights campaigner and social media personality
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Bobbie Lea Bennett died
American activist
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Echati Maoulida died
Mahorese activist (1935-2019)
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Hermine E. Ricketts died
Jamaican-American architect, activist (1956–2019)
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Marca Bristo died
American disability rights activist
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Gertrude Newsome-Jackson died
American activist
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Barbara Mandel died
American activist and philanthropist
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Helen Engle died
American conservationist and activist (1926-2019)
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Joan Jones died
Businesswoman and activist from Canada
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Sadie Roberts-Joseph died
American community activist (1944–2019)
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Esther Mwikali died
Kenyan land rights activist
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Tauto Sansbury died
Australian Indigenous rights advocate
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Anémone died
French actress (1950–2019)
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Jan-Michael Vincent died
American actor (1944–2019)
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Franco Columbu died
Italian bodybuilder and actor (1941–2019)
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Tania Mallet died
British actress and model (1941–2019)
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Jean-Pierre Mocky died
French film director and actor (1929–2019)
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Isabel Sarli died
Argentine actress (1929-2019)
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Med Hondo died
Mauritanian actor (1935–2019)
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Daniel Johnston died
American musician (1961–2019)
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Princess Christina of the Netherlands died
Dutch princess (1947-2019)
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Marlen Khutsiev died
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1925-2019)
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Ric Ocasek died
American musician (1944–2019)
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Sid Haig died
American actor (1939–2019)
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Vladimir Etush died
Soviet and Russian actor (1922–2019)
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Stoyanka Mutafova died
Bulgarian actress (1922–2019)
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Paul Badura-Skoda died
Austrian musician (1927-2019)
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Russi Taylor died
American voice actress (1944–2019)
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Carol Lynley died
American actress (1942–2019)
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Kelly Catlin died
American cyclist
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Rob Garrison died
American actor (1960-2019)
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Don Bragg died
American athletics competitor (1935–2019)
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Max Wright died
Actor from the United States (1943-2019)
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Billy Drago died
American actor (1946-2019)
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Jean-Pierre Marielle died
French actor (1932–2019)
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Peter Tork died
American musician and actor (1942–2019)
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Dick Miller died
American actor (1928-2019)
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Mark Zakharov died
Russian theatre director (1933-2019)
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Robert Evans died
American film producer (1930–2019)
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Peter Schreier died
German tenor and conductor (1935-2019)
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Günter Kunert died
German writer (1929-2019)
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David Hedison died
American actor (1927-2019)
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D. A. Pennebaker died
American filmmaker (1925-2019)
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Georgia Engel died
American actress (1948–2019)
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Ellen Schwiers died
German actress (1930-2019)
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Christian Bach died
Argentine-born Mexican actress (1959-2019)
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Ken Kercheval died
American actor (1935–2019)
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Eddie Money died
American musician and singer-songwriter (1949–2019)
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Václav Vorlíček died
Czech director and scriptwriter (1930-2019)
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Sergei Yursky died
Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter (1935-2019)
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Gershon Kingsley died
American composer and musician (1922–2019)
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Hannelore Elsner died
German actress (1942–2019)
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Freddie Jones died
English character actor (1927-2019)
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Shelley Morrison died
American actress (1936–2019)
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Mark Hollis died
British singer (1955–2019)
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Ron Leibman died
American actor (1937–2019)
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Jerry Herman died
American composer and lyricist (1931-2019)
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Alexey Buldakov died
Russian actor (1951–2019)
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Elina Bystritskaya died
Soviet-Russian actress (1928–2019)
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Yulia Nachalova died
Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter (1981–2019)
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Édith Scob died
French actress (1937-2019)
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Michel Aumont died
French actor (1936–2019)
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Andre Matos died
Brazilian musician (1971–2019)
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Inger Berggren died
Swedish singer (1934–2019)
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Martin Lauer died
Athletics competitor (1937–2019)
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Catherine Burns died
American actress and writer (1945-2019)
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Camilo Sesto died
Spanish singer
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Sogyal Rinpoche died
Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition
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Susan Bernard died
American actress (1948-2019)
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Rudi Assauer died
German football player and executive (1944–2019)
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Verna Bloom died
American actress (1938–2019)
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Dave Bartholomew died
American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer (1918–2019)
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Hal Blaine died
American drummer (1929–2019)
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Julie Gibson died
American actress and singer (1913–2019)
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Oliver Mtukudzi died
Zimbabwean musician (1952–2019)
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Rip Taylor died
American actor and comedian (1931–2019)
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Galina Volchek died
Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher (1933–2019)
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Lisa Martinek died
German actress (1972-2019)
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Morgan Woodward died
American actor (1925-2019)
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Clive Swift died
British actor (1936–2019)
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Ilaria Occhini died
Italian actress (1934-2019)
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Heinz Fütterer died
West German athlete (1931-2019)
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Dorothy Masuka died
Jazz singer (1935-2019)
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Stephanie Niznik died
American actress (1967–2019)
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Eduardo Fajardo died
Spanish actor (1924-2019)
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Pino Caruso died
Italian actor (1934–2019)
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Neil Innes died
English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)
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Hungarian gymnast (1924–2019)
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Jonathan Miller died
British theatre director (1934-2019)
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Jean Guillou died
French composer, organist, pianist (1930–2019)
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Alain Barrière died
French singer (1935–2019)
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Robert Hunter died
American lyricist, musician, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet
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American actor (1935–2019)
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Indian actress (1947-2019)
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Barbara Perry died
American actress (1921-2019)
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Theo Adam died
German bass-baritone opera singer
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Muriel Pavlow died
British actress (1921-2019)
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Johannes Schaaf died
German film and stage director (1933-2019)
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Robert Walker Jr. died
American actor (1940–2019)
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Aron Eisenberg died
American actor
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Lisa Sheridan died
American actress (1974-2019)
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Therese Zenz died
West German canoeist (1932–2019)
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Pua Magasiva died
New Zealand actor (1980–2019)
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Barbara Hillary died
Died in Far Rockaway. American adventurer (1931-2019).
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Science & Technology 18
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Natural history museum and research center in the Leiden, The Netherlands
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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Graduate-level, a research-based academic institution in Abu Dhabi
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Luxor University
Egyptian public university
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INSA Hauts-de-France
French engineering College
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Assam Hills Medical College and Research Institute
Indian institute of medical education
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani
Public Medical School in Kalyani, West Bengal
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ESIC University
University in Spain
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Madhabdev University
State public university in Lakhimpur, Assam, India
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Curaçao Medical Center
Hospital in Curaçao
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Jinnah Hospital
Hospital in Afghanistan
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Levy Mwanawasa Medical University
Public university in Lusaka, Zambia
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Medini Rai Medical College and Hospital, Palamu
Medical College in Jharkhand, India
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Bandarban University
University in Bandarban, Bangladesh
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Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Punjab Sports University, Patiala
State public university in Patiala, Punjab, India
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American University of Bahrain
Private university in Riffa, Bahrain
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Al-Qadir University
University in Pakistan
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Imperial Hospital Limited
Hospital in Bangladesh
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Ankara Bilkent City Hospital
City Hospital
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Exploration & Discovery 6
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Sinking of MV Conception
2019 maritime disaster
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BLC1
Narrowband radio signal detected in April and May 2019
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Wikimeetup in Saint Petersburg 2019-08-11
Wikimeetup in Saint Petersburg 2019-08-11 (Exploration & Discovery).
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Icon of Mani
Icon of Mani depicted on a hanging scroll
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Takanawa Embankment
Historical railway embankment
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Ellerby Area Hoard
Post-Medieval coin hoard
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Religion & Belief Systems 18
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Çamlıca Mosque
Mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
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Djamaa El Djazaïr
Third largest mosque in the world and the tallest minaret in the world, located in Mohammadia, Algiers, Algeria
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Al-Fattah al-Alim mosque
Mosque in Egypt
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Abdülhamid II Mosque
Mosque in Djibouti
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Holy Mother of God Cathedral
Former church in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan
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Massalikoul Djinane Mosque
Mosque in Dakar, Senegal
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Cambridge Mosque
Mosque in Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Jameh Mosque of Germi
Mosque in Germi, Ardabil, Iran
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Sharjah Mosque
Mosque in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Imam Abu Hanifa Grand Mosque
Mosque in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Al Abu Stit mosque
Modern mosque in Basuna village in Egypt
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Indian Mosque
Mosque in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Mubarak Mosque
Mosque in Islamabad, Tilford
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Sri Sendayan Mosque
Mosque in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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Räxmätulla Mosque
Mosque in Russia
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Great Central Mosque of Avcılar
Great Central Mosque of Avcılar (Religion & Belief Systems).
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New Synagogue Dessau
Synagogue in central Dessau
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Bilal Saygılı Mosque
Bilal Saygılı Mosque (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Economy & Trade 7
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Paramount Global
American multinational mass media corporation
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All Elite Wrestling
American professional wrestling promotion
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Warner Records Inc.
American record company; subsidiary of Warner Music Group
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L3Harris Technologies
Company in Melbourne, United States
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Daimler Truck
German commercial vehicle manufacturer
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Foxtel
Australian pay television company
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UzAuto Motors
Automobile manufacturer in Uzbekistan
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Disasters & Pandemics 33
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COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (2019–2023)
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2019 Albania earthquake
Seismic event on 26 November 2019
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2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes
July 4–5, 2019, earthquakes in California
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2019 Iran Floods
Flash floods across Iran
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Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion
2019 gasoline pipeline explosion in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico
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2019 Kashmir earthquake
Earthquake
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2019 Ambon earthquake
Earthquake on 25 September 2019 in Piru Bay, between the islands of Seram and Ambon, Indonesia
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2019 Peru earthquake
Earthquake in the Department of Loreto in Peru, struck on May 26, 2019
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2019 Luzon earthquake
Earthquake in Luzon, Philippines
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Morogoro tanker explosion
Fuel explosion in Tanzania in August 2019
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2019 Cotabato earthquakes
Series of earthquakes in the Philippines
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2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion
21 March 2019 explosion in Chenjiagang Town, Xiangshui County, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China
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2019 Hualien earthquake
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Taiwan
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2019 Yamagata earthquake
Earthquake 18 June 2019 off the coast of Tsuruoka Japan
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İstanbul earthquake of 2019
5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck İstanbul in northwestern Turkey on September 26, 2019
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2019 Coquimbo earthquake
Earthquake in Chile
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2019 South Sulawesi floods
Natural disaster in Indonesia
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2019 Jayapura flood and landslide
Natural disaster in Indonesia
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2019 Lombok earthquake
Earthquake in Indonesia
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2019 Yibin earthquake
5.8 Mw earthquake in Sichuan, China
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2019 Halmahera earthquake
Earthquake on 14 July 2019 in South Halmahera, Indonesia
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2019 Batanes earthquake
Natural disaster
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2019 East Azerbaijan earthquake
Earthquake in Sarab County, Iran
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2019 Visayas earthquake
2019 earthquake in the Philippines
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2019 Athens earthquake
Earthquake on Friday, July 19th 2019
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2019 Ecuador earthquake
Very strong quake in Ecuador
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2019 Townsville flood
Flood in Queensland, Australia
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2019 Kerala floods
Severe flooding due to heavy monsoon rainfall on 8 August 2019
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2019 Zigong earthquake
2019 earthquake in Zigong City, China
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2019 Durban Easter floods
2019 flooding in Durban, South Africa
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2019 Sunda Strait earthquake
7 July 2019, earthquakes in Indonesia
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2019 Davao del Sur earthquake
Earthquake in the Philippines
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2019 England floods
Severe flooding in England
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Social Movements & Revolutions 20
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2019–2021 Chilean protests
Period of major social and civil unrest in Chile.
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2019–2021 Algerian protests
Protests in Algeria
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2019 Ecuadorian protests
Protests in Ecuador
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2019 Bolivian protests
Protests against electoral fraud allegations in the 2019 Bolivian elections
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2019–2020 Georgian protests
2019–2020 protests in Georgia
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2019 Moscow protests
2019 Moscow City Duma elections protests
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2019–20 Venezuelan protests
Venezuelan protests related to the presidential crisis
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1 July 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protest
Hong Kong protests
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2019 Ethiopian protests
Deadly Ethiopian protests in the Oromo region
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2019 Gaza economic protests
Protests in Gaza as a part of 2018-19 Arab protests
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July 2019 Restoration of Tuen Mun Park
6 July 2019 Hong Kong protest
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25 August 2019 Hong Kong protest
Anti-extradition bill protest happened on 25 August 2019 in Hong Kong
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Johannesburg riots, 2019
Riot in South Africa
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September 2019 Guangfu Tuen Mun Park
21 September 2019 Hong Kong protest
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2019 Sheung Shui protest
13 July 2019 Hong Kong protest
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Cieneguillas prison riots
Prison riots
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17 August 2019 Hong Kong protest
17 August 2019 Hong Kong protest (Social Movements & Revolutions).
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2019 Azadi march
2019 protest march against Pakistan government
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2019 Sistan and Baluchestan protests
2019 series of protests in Iran
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2019 Belarusian anti-Russian protests
Belarusian protests against integration with Russia in 2019
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Architecture & Engineering 18
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Al Janoub Stadium
Football stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar
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Western Sydney Stadium
Stadium in Parramatta, NSW
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Bridge over Saint Volodymyr Descent
Pedestrian bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Stadion Rudolf Illovszky
Stadium in Hungary
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Addis Ababa National Stadium
Building in Ethiopia
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ATCO Field
Canadian soccer stadium
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UMMC Arena
Multifunctional ice arena in Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Los Pynandi World Cup Stadium
Beach soccer stadium in Paraguay
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Szent Gellért Fórum
Sports venue in Szeged, Hungary
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Estadio Borregos
Multi-purpose stadium in Monterrey, Mexico
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Brisbane Arena
Netball arena located in the southern Brisbane suburb of Nathan
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Champlain Bridge
Bridge in Montreal, commissioned in 2019
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Haiwen Bridge
Bridge in People's Republic of China
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Museo de Intramuros
Ecclesiastical museum
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Church of the Epiphany of the Lord
Catholic church building in Senegal
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Ayn al-Tamr Stadium
Stadium in Ayn al-Tamr, Iraq
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Fayetteville Ballpark
Baseball park in Fayetteville, North Carolina
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G-Mobile Arena
Stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Sports & Entertainment 54
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2019 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
2019 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships (Sports & Entertainment).
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2019 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
International speed skating competition
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2019 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships
International athletics championship event
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2019 American League Championship Series
50th edition of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series
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The Match Europe v USA
International athletics championship event
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2019 National League Championship Series
50th edition of Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series
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World Roller Games 2019
World Roller Games 2019 (Sports & Entertainment).
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2019 Czech Indoor Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
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2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship
International basketball tournament
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2019 FIBA U16 Women's African Championship
International basketball tournament
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2019 Spanish Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
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2019 FIBA U16 African Championship
International basketball tournament
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2019 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships
Track and field competition
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2018–19 Australian Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
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2019 International Women's Football Tournament
The ninth edition of the International Women's Football Tournament
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2020 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships
2020 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships (Sports & Entertainment).
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2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final
Final match of the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
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2019 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships
Commonwealth weight lifting championship
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2019 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Annual Australian yacht race
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curling at the 2019 Canada Winter Games
Curling competition at Red Deer, Alberta
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2019 World Team Trophy
Team cue sports event
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2019 Cannes Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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2019 World Snooker Championship
Professional snooker world championship tournament, April–May 2019
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76th Venice International Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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69th Berlin International Film Festival
2019 film festival
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Formula Regional European Championship
Single-Seater Racing Championship
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2019 Sundance Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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Sanremo Music Festival 2019
Italian music festival, 69th edition
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2019 Toronto International Film Festival
44th edition of the festival
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The International 2019
Dota 2 video game tournament
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2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships
Competition climbing event
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Festivali i Këngës 58
58th edition of Festivali i Këngës
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41st Moscow International Film Festival
Film festival
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2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival
Film festival edition
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Melodi Grand Prix 2019
57th edition of Melodi Grand Prix
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2019 American League Championship Series
50th edition of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series
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IJF World Tour Tel Aviv
Judo competitions
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Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019
Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 (Sports & Entertainment).
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72nd Locarno Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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2019 National League Championship Series
50th edition of Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series
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Summer Biathlon World Championships 2019
Summer Biathlon World Championships 2019 (Sports & Entertainment).
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ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019
ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 (Sports & Entertainment).
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2019 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering
2019 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering (Sports & Entertainment).
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54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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2019 Tokyo International Film Festival
Film festival edition
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24th Busan International Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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2019 Sitges Film Festival
Film festival edition
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Woodstock 50
Music festival
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America-Pacific Luge Championship 2020
America-Pacific Luge Championship 2020 (Sports & Entertainment).
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Kinotavr 2019
Film festival edition
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2019 Sarajevo Film Festival
25th edition of the festival
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37th Torino Film Festival
2019 film festival edition
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2019 World Women's Snooker Championship
Snooker tournament
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2019 world 3-cushion championship
2019 world 3-cushion championship (Sports & Entertainment).
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2010s 1
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Latin American Spring
Series of protests in Latin America
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