Attached is a link to a site that tells you morbid crap about your birthday. These people died on mine.
People who died on December 19 (various years)
* 2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso
* 2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano
* 2004 - Herbert C. Brown, British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
* 2003 - Hope Lange, American actress
* 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer
* 2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist.
* 2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers)
* 2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist
* 2000 - Robert Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs)
* 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor
* 1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist
* 1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony)
* 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor
* 1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds)
* 1991 - Joe Cole (roadie), roadie for American band Black Flag, Henry Rollins' best friend
* 1989 - Stella Gibbons, British author
* 1982 - Dwight Macdonald, social critic, combative journalist and anarchist
* 1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist
* 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia
* 1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
* 1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist
* 1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur
* 1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt
* 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer
* 1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District
* 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed)
* 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist
* 1848 - Emily Brontë, British author
* 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician
* 1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump
* 1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
* 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer
* 1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark
* 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer
* 1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter
* 1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer
* 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland
* 1370 - Pope Urban V
* 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
* 1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
* 401 - Pope Anastasius I