March 2019

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2019 was designated as International Year of the Periodic table, Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly given that it coincided with the 150th anniversary of its creation by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.

2019 is noted as the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared the following year.

2019 was described as the "best year in human history" by multiple newspapers and media outlets, including The New York Times and WNYC.

Events

January

* January 1
**''New Horizons'' makes a close approach to the Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC.
** Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
** Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
** Works published by authors who died in 1948 enter the public domain in International copyright law, many countries. In the U.s. copyU.S., all works published in 1923 enter the public domain, the first entry of published works into the public domain since Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, 1998.
* January 3 – Chinese space program, Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first artificial object to land on the far side of the Moon.
* January 5 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople issues a Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church), formal decree granting Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church.
* January 6 – Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicates the federal throne as the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, monarch of Malaysia, the first Malaysian monarch to do so.
* January 7 – A faction of the Armed Forces of Gabon attempts a 2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt, coup d'état.
* January 10 – Venezuela enters a Venezuelan presidential crisis, presidential crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly declare incumbent President of Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate".
* January 23 – Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and Nicolás Maduro, President Maduro severs United States–Venezuela relations, U.S. diplomatic ties.
* January 25 – A mine tailings dam Brumadinho dam disaster, breaks in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing.
* January 28 – The United States Department of Justice, U.S. Justice Department charges Chinese technology, Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising China–United States relations, U.S.–China tensions.

February

* February 1 – U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987, citing Russian non-compliance. The next day, Russia follows suit with suspension of its obligations to the treaty.
* February 3
** Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
** 2019 Salvadoran presidential election: Nayib Bukele is elected President of El Salvador, president.
* February 6 – The Freedom House declares that Hungary is no longer a free country, making it the Member state of the European Union, first country in the EU to be labelled "partly free". It also states that Serbia is no longer free as well.
* February 7 – 2019 Haitian protests: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of President of Haiti, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.
* February 12 – The North Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia Prespa agreement, renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, officially ending a decades-old Macedonia naming dispute, dispute with Greece and paving the way for the former's integration into NATO and the European Union, EU.
* February 21 – SpaceIL launches the ''Beresheet'' probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.
* February 23
** Venezuelan presidential crisis: President of Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro, Maduro severs diplomatic ties with Colombia amid attempts to send humanitarian aid to the country across Colombia–Venezuela border, the border.
** 2019 Nigerian general election: Incumbent President of Nigeria, president Muhammadu Buhari is reelected and the All Progressives Congress party wins 63 out of 109 seats in the Senate of Nigeria and 202 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives (Nigeria), House of Representatives.
*February 24
** 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum: The Constitution of Cuba, new constitution was approved by 90.61% of valid votes.
** The 2019 Moldovan parliamentary election is held to elect all 101 members of the Parliament of Moldova.
** 2019 Senegalese presidential election: Incumbent President of Senegal, president Macky Sall is reelected.
* February 26 – February 27, 27 – The Indian Air Force launches 2019 Balakot airstrike, airstrikes on purported Terrorist training camp, militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan. It precedes a series of events that lead to the India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2019), 2019 India–Pakistan standoff.
* February 27 – February 28, 28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between President of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader (North Korean title), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

March

* March 3
** An uncrewed demonstration flight of the new crew capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.
** The 2019 Estonian parliamentary election is held to elect all 101 members of the Riigikogu.
* March 5 – A second case of sustained Remission (medicine), remission from HIV is reported, ten years after the Berlin Patient.
* March 6 – Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuela Foreign relations of Venezuela, expels German ambassador Foreign relations of Germany, Daniel Kriener for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.
* March 10 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board. All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are Boeing 737 MAX groundings, subsequently grounded worldwide.
* March 15
**Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
** 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in Christchurch mosque shootings, terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in History of New Zealand, New Zealand's history.
* March 19 – Nursultan Nazarbayev resigns as President of Kazakhstan after 29 years in office and appoints Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as acting president. Astana is renamed Nur-Sultan the following day in his honor.
* March 20 – European Union competition law, Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google €1.49 billion (US$1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business, bringing the total cost of EU fines against Google at nearly €8.76 billion.
* March 23 – The final territory of the Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, located in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, Syria, is Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, liberated.
* March 26 – The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites and includes the controversial Article 13.
* March 31 – Taiwan Scramble (aviation), scrambles its fighter aircraft after two China, Chinese jets crossed the Taiwan Strait, maritime border between Cross-Strait relations, the two nations. Just the day before, Japan had similarly scrambled its jets after Chinese jets flew between Miyako-jima, Miyako and Okinawa Island, Okinawa.

April

* April 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria amid 2019–2021 Algerian protests, widespread protests, after nearly two decades in office.
* April 4 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a 2019 Western Libya offensive, surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli and capturing Gharyan.
* April 6 – 2019 Maldivian parliamentary election: The Maldivian Democratic Party wins 65 out of the 85 seats in the People's Majlis.
* April 10
** Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the Messier 87, M87 galaxy.
** Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of a new species of human, the ''Homo luzonensis''. The species is named after Luzon, Luzon island, where the fossils were discovered.
* April 11
**WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange, arrested after seven years in Embassy of Ecuador, London, Ecuador's embassy in London.
** Amid 2018–19 Sudanese protests, mass protests, Omar al-Bashir is deposed as President of Sudan in 2019 Sudanese coup d'état, a coup d'état, after nearly 30 years in office.
* April 15 – During Holy Week, a major Notre-Dame fire, fire engulfs Notre-Dame de Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, resulting in the roof and main spire collapsing.
* April 16 – The Howse Peak avalanche kills three noted mountaineers: Austrians Hansjörg Auer and David Lama, and Canadian Jess Roskelley.
* April 18 – NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
* April 21 – 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, A series of Islamist bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter, Easter Sunday, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured. It is the first major attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009.
* April 25 – Supreme Leader (North Korean title), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Russia to hold a Kim–Putin meetings, series of summits with Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin.
* April 28 – Victor Vescovo achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft).
* April 29 – Elusive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in undated footage released by the group, his first appearance on video since 2014.
* April 30
**Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito of Japan 2019 Japanese imperial transition, abdicates from his Chrysanthemum Throne, throne, the first abdication by a Japanese monarchy, Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the Heisei Japanese era names, era of Japan and ushers in the Reiwa, Reiwa era with new emperor Naruhito ascending the throne on May 1.
** Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan opposition leader and disputed interim President Juan Guaidó leads 2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt, an attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro.

May

* May 1
** King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida, Suthida Tidjai – a commoner – in a surprise ceremony, making her List of Thai royal consorts, queen consort of Thailand.
** Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "Network Sovereignty, sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian government, Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Internet in Russia, Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers.
* May 3 – The number of deaths from the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic, Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest List of Ebola outbreaks, Ebola outbreak in history, only surpassed by the Western African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016.
* May 3 – May 6, 6 – Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019), May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes: The Gaza–Israel conflict escalates after the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza Strip, Gaza killing more than 20 Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a toddler following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
* May 5 – Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash-lands and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board.
* May 6
** In its first report since 2005, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity loss is "accelerating", with over a million species now threatened with extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented" and largely a result of human actions, according to the report.
** Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Army launches a Northwestern Syria offensive (April 2019–present), major ground offensive against one of the last Syrian opposition, rebel strongholds in the country.
* May 8 – A British teenager, Isabelle Holdaway, 17, is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a Antimicrobial resistance, drug-resistant infection.
* May 10 – Amid ongoing negotiations, the U.S.'s 25% tariff hike on US$200 billion worth of List of the largest trading partners of the United States, Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing China–United States trade war.
* May 12 – May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident: Four commercial ships, including two Saudi Aramco oil tankers, are damaged near Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman. The United Arab Emirates, UAE claims it as a "sabotage attack", while an early U.S. assessment blames Iran. The incident occurs after increased U.S.-Iran tensions provoked by the deployment of U.S. military to the Persian Gulf in response to an US - Iran Relations, alleged plot by Iran to attack U.S. Forces, U.S. forces.
* May 13 – Prosecutors in Sweden reopen the Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority, rape allegation investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Swedish prosecutors mention their intent to seek extradition of Assange from the United Kingdom, U.K. after he has served his 50-week prison sentence for skipping bail.
* May 14 – May 18, 18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is won by Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest, Dutch entrant Duncan Laurence with the song "Arcade (song), Arcade".
* May 17 – Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament becomes the first in Asia to legalise Same-sex marriage in Taiwan, same-sex marriage.
* May 18 – 2019 Australian federal election: Scott Morrison's Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition Morrison Government, Government is narrowly re-elected, defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.
* May 19 – China–United States trade war: Google pulls Android (operating system), Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play, Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the company's blacklisting by the U.S. Government, U.S. government.
* May 20 – The 2019 redefinition of SI base units, redefinition of the SI system of measurement adopted by the majority of countries in the world takes effect.
* May 23 – 2019 Indian general election: Narendra Modi secures a landslide victory, with his party Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP alone gaining 303 of the 543 seats in Parliament of India, parliament, and his political alliance winning 353 seats of the 543.
* May 24
** Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Conservative Party (UK), Conservative leader, effective June 7, 2019.
** Acarigua prison riot, A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.
* May 26 – May 27, 27 – Amazonas prison massacres: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Brazil.
* May 27 – U.S. President Donald Trump, during an official List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump, state visit to Japan, becomes the first foreign leader to meet with Japanese emperor Naruhito.
* May 30 – July 14 – The 2019 Cricket World Cup is held in England and Wales, and is won by England cricket team, England.

June

* June 1 – Liverpool F.C., Liverpool F.C win their 6th UEFA Champions League title against fellow English club Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 at the Metropolitano Stadium, with goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi.
*June 2
** Nearly five years after Juan Carlos I of Spain#Abdication, abdication, List of Spanish monarchs, King Juan Carlos I of Spain retires from public life.
** 2019 Sammarinese referendum, 2019 San Marino referendum: Sammarinese voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the Government of San Marino, reform of the electoral system.
* June 3 – Khartoum massacre: More than 100 people are killed when Rapid Support Forces (Sudan), Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a 2018–19 Sudanese protests, protest camp outside of a military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
* June 3 – June 5, 5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the United Kingdom, U.K., meeting with Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. - U.S. relations, U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends Normandy landings, D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
* June 5 – June 8, 8 – President of the People's Republic of China, Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
* June 6 – 2018–19 Sudanese protests: The African Union suspends Sudan's membership "with immediate effect" after the Khartoum massacre.
* June 7 – British prime minister, British Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party.
* June 7 – July 7 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in France and is won by the United States women's national soccer team, United States.
* June 9
**2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, proposed legislation regarding extradition to mainland China. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the Handover of Hong Kong, 1997 handover.
** A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia sends a 7,000-meter Eruption column, ash column into the air, generating a pyroclastic flow 3–3.5 kilometers long towards the south and southeast of the mountain.
* June 11 – Botswana LGBT rights in Botswana, decriminalizes homosexuality.
* June 12
** The Supreme Court of Ecuador rules in favor of Same-sex marriage in Ecuador, same-sex marriage, making it legal throughout the country.
** 12 June 2019 Hong Kong protest, June 12, 2019 Hong Kong protest: The Hong Kong government and Hong Kong Police Force, police controversially declare that the protest has "turned into a riot".
* June 13 – June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident: Two oil tankers are attacked near the Strait of Hormuz while transiting the Gulf of Oman amid heightened tension between Iran-U.S. relations, Iran and the U.S., with the latter blaming the former for the incident.
* June 15 – 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial Hong Kong Extradition Bill 2019, extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
* June 16 – A large-scale 2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, power outage hits Energy in Argentina, Argentina, Energy in Uruguay, Uruguay and Energy in Paraguay, parts of Paraguay, affecting nearly 50 million people.
* June 17 – 2019 Borno bombings, A triple suicide blast kills 30 and injures over 40 in Borno State, Borno, Nigeria, at a hall where people were watching a football match.
* June 18 – The United States, U.S. sends an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran.
* June 19 – Four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, an airliner shot down while flying over Eastern Ukraine in July 2014.
* June 20 – June 21, 21 – President of the People's Republic of China, Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a Kim–Xi meetings#Fifth meeting, state visit to North Korea. It is his first visit to the country as president and the North Korea China relations, first visit to North Korea by a Chinese leader since Hu Jintao's visit 14 years prior.
* June 20 – June 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone: Iran shoots down a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz after claiming it violated their airspace. The U.S. claims it has been shot down in international airspace in an "unprovoked attack".
* June 22 – 2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt: In the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, regional president Ambachew Mekonnen and national-military chief of staff Se'are Mekonnen are assassinated.
* June 30 – During a 2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit, trilateral gathering at the Joint Security Area, Panmunjom Truce Village between South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean leader, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. president to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone and enter North Korea. Trump and Kim also agree to restart stalled North Korea and weapons of mass destruction, denuclearization negotiations.

July

* July – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports, on August 15, that July 2019 has been the hottest month on record globally, at 0.95 °C (1.71 °F) above the List of periods and events in climate history, 20th-century average.
* July 1
** Japan resumes Whaling in Japan, commercial whaling after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission.
** Japan announces tightening high-tech exports to South Korea, thus begin the 2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute, trade dispute between the two countries.
** The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium.
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: During the annual July 1 protests that mark the anniversary of the Handover of Hong Kong, British handover of the city to China, a group of a few hundred protesters stormed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, defacing various portraits and destroying furniture before being dispersed by police using tear gas.
** A fire on the Russian deep-diving submarine ''Russian submarine Losharik, Losharik'' kills 14 crew members. Submarine commander Denis Dolonsky is among those killed.
* July 2 – A total Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019, solar eclipse occurs over South America. It is the 58th solar eclipse from Solar Saros 127, Saros cycle 127.
* July 3 – 2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike: An airstrike by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli, Libya, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injures 130 others.
* July 7– 2019 Greek legislative election: The New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy party wins 158 of 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament.
* July 10 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla (city), Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
* July 12 – Asasey Hotel attack: A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26 people, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. Islamist group Al-Shabaab (militant group), al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
* July 13 – Hurricane Barry (2019), Hurricane Barry strikes the Gulf Coast, killing one and causing over $500 million (2019 USD) in damages.
* July 16 – The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission. Succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker, she will be sworn in on December 1, 2019. She is the first female to be elected to this office in EU history.
* July 17
**''United States v. Guzmán'': Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.
** The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic, Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, public health emergency of international concern.
* July 18 – 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an Kyoto Animation arson attack, arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the List of massacres in Japan, deadliest massacres in the country's history since the end of World War II and the deadliest building fire in the country in 18 years, since the Myojo 56 building fire in 2001.
* July 19 – The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures United Kingdom, British tanker ''Stena Impero'' and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker ''Mesdar'' in the Persian Gulf. The British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.
* July 21 – A mob of over 100 suspected Triad (organized crime), triad members dressed in white and armed with batons 2019 Yuen Long violence, attack commuters indiscriminately at MTR Yuen Long station in Hong Kong, injuring 45, including a pro-democracy legislator and a pregnant woman. Hong Kong Police Force, Hong Kong police have been accused of allowing the violence to happen due to their delayed response and decision to limit emergency services in the area
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* July 24 – Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.
* July 26 – August 11 – The 2019 Pan American Games are held in Lima, Peru.
* July 30 – India bans Triple talaq in India, triple ''talaq''.

August

* August 1 – Danish polar research institution Polar Portal reports a large spike in Greenland ice loss, with 11 billion tons melted in one day and 197 gigatonnes during the month of July.
* August 2
** The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
** 2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute: Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28.
* August 5
** Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir: India revokes the Article 370 of the Constitution of India, part of its constitution that gives Jammu and Kashmir (state), Indian-administered Kashmir special status in an unprecedented move.
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Amid ongoing protests, Hong Kong is hit by the first general strikes of their kind since 1967.
* August 7 – The Singapore Convention on Mediation, also known as the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, comes into effect with 46 countries ratifying it. States that have ratified the treaty will have to ensure that international commercial settlement agreements are enforced by their courts.
* August 8 – Nyonoksa radiation accident: Reports indicate that there may have been a nuclear explosion at the Nyonoksa weapons-testing site in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. At least five people were killed and three others injured in the blast, with radiation levels in Severodvinsk, from the site, being 20 times above normal levels temporarily.
* August 10
** Morogoro tanker explosion: A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.
** 32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima (2019), Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
* August 10 – August 25, 25 – 2019 Canary Islands wildfires: A number of wildfire, forest fires break out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria were the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and villages.
* August 11 – 2019 Indian floods: At least 114 people, including 57 in Kerala, 30 in Karnataka and 27 in Maharashtra, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in India. At least 227 died across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
* August 12
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests.
** 2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute: South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18.
** The Trump administration announces it will delay its proposal for 10 percent tariffs slated to take effect from September 1 on certain consumer goods from China while exempting other products — less than two weeks after Trump announced the new proposed tariffs.
* August 13 – The main yield curve for United States Treasury security, U.S. Treasury bonds inverts, as the yield rate for 2-year bonds rises higher than the yield rate for 10-year bonds.
* August 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the yield curve inversion.
* August 15 – The European Central Bank shuts down PNB Banka after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called Norvik Banka, has been Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and a critic of the Baltic country's financial authorities.
* August 16 – Russian airstrike kills Hass refugee camp bombing, 20 civilians in the Hass refugee camp
* August 18 – 100 activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull, Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after once covering .
* August 19 – 2019 Papua protests erupt, mainly across Indonesian Papua, in response to an incident in Surabaya where a group of Papuan students were arrested for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag. In Jayapura, Sorong, Fakfak, Timika and Manokwari, protests turned violent, with various private buildings and public facilities being damaged or burned. The protests and unrest were described by Reuters as "the most serious civil unrest in years over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination."
* August 21
** 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires: Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reports fires burning in the Amazon rainforest at a record rate, with more than 36,000 in the year to date, while smoke reaches São Paulo more than away.
** Giuseppe Conte offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy in order to avoid a no-confidence motion.
* August 23 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron describe the widespread 2019 Brazil wildfires, Amazon fires as an international emergency, urging the matter to be discussed at the weekend's 45th G7 summit, G7 summit.
* August 25 – 2019 Beirut drone crash: According to Lebanese officials, two Israeli drones attack Beirut, Lebanon. One crashed into the roof of the Hezbollah Media Center, about 45 minutes before the second exploded in the air and damaged the building. It is the first such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the 2006 Lebanon War.
* August 31 – 2019 Alta helicopter crash: A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of , Alta, Norway, killing all 6 occupants.

September

* September 1 – Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph. 43 deaths are reported.
* September 2
** Sinking of MV Conception, Sinking of MV ''Conception'': 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near Santa Cruz Island, California, United States. It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.
** Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in Iran. She dies a week later.
* September 4 – 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill, Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory.
* September 6 – Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar probe, is successfully placed in lunar orbit, but the lander ''Vikram'' crashes into the surface of the moon.
* September 7
** Afghan peace process: U.S. President Donald Trump announces he "called off" planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David after they claimed responsibility for 2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings, the September 2 and 5 bombings in Kabul which killed a U.S. soldier, among others.
** Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
* September 10 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom is 2019 British prorogation controversy, prorogued amid unprecedented protests from opposition MPs, who hold up signs in the House of Commons and refuse to back the shutdown.
* September 11 – Astronomers announce the detection of water in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b, the first such discovery for an exoplanet in the Circumstellar habitable zone, habitable zone around a star.
* September 14 – 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack: Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais oil field, Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi movement, Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack. Aramco's oil exports and production are disrupted by five million barrels a day, close to half of the entire Saudi Arabian oil exports.
* September 16 – A gas explosion in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including smallpox, Ebola virus disease, ebola and anthrax.
*September 17 – Interest rates on repurchase agreements (or "repos") in the United States experience a September 2019 events in the U.S. repo market, sudden and unexpected spike.
* September 19 – 30 Afghanistan, Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.
* September 20 – An international September 2019 climate strike, strike and protest led by young people and adults is held three days before the latest 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, UN Climate Summit, to demand action be taken to address the climate crisis. The event is one of the largest climate mobilizations in history.
* September 20 – November 2 – The 2019 Rugby World Cup, 2019 Rugby Union World Cup is held in Japan; the South Africa national rugby union team, South Africa Springboks defeat the England national rugby union team 32–12.
* September 21 – U.S. President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack, September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran vow to defend themselves.
* September 22 – Nearly three weeks after Effects of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, the official death toll stands at 52 and 1,300 are reported missing. Rescuers report the widespread stench of rotting bodies in the rubble.

* September 23
** One of the largest and oldest travel firms, Thomas Cook Group, Thomas Cook, goes bankrupt as last-minute rescue negotiations fail, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.
** Russia formally adopts the Paris Agreement, Paris climate agreement.
* September 24
** The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously rules in ''R (Miller) v The Prime Minister'' that the 2019 British prorogation controversy, September 2019 prorogation of Parliament is unlawful and void.
** The Supreme Court of Spain unanimously rules in favour of the exhumation of the remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the Valle de los Caídos. He is finally exhumed on October 24, being re-inhumed in a private crypt with his wife.
** U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
* September 27 – 500,000 people march in a climate change protest led by activist Greta Thunberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, Canada. 4,000,000 go on strike around the world.
* September 30 – The Republic of Ireland promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to climate change mitigation, combat climate change.

October

* October 1
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: A protester is shot in the chest with a live round of ammunition and critically injured.
** The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others.
* October 2 – 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali.
* October 3 – European Commission spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the Tariff in United States history, United States imposes a US$7.5-billion (approximately €6.8-billion) tariff on products such as olives, whiskey, wine, cheese, yogurt, and airplanes. The tariffs are scheduled to take place on October 18.
* October 4 – 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Order in Council, Chief Executive in Council invokes the Emergency Regulations Ordinance and banning the Surgical mask, face mask in public gatherings with immediate effect.
* October 5 – 2018–19 Iraqi protests, 2019 Iraqi protests: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in Iraq.
* October 8
** 2019 Ecuadorian protests: The Government of Ecuador, headed by President Lenín Moreno, moves to Guayaquil as the Carondelet Palace in Quito is overtaken by protesters and chaos persists in the capital.
** About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.
* October 9
** 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey announces a military invasion of north-eastern Syria, targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF and other Kurdish militias.
** The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, U.N. Human Rights Office issue a report that says that U.S. bombings in Nimroz and Farah Province, Afghanistan, that killed 39 civilians are unlawful. The U.S. said the attacks were against drug labs that fund the Taliban.
* October 12 – Typhoon Hagibis (2019), Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate.
* October 14
** Trial of Catalonia independence leaders: The Supreme Court of Spain sentences nine Catalan independence movement leaders to 9 to 13 years of prison for sedition and misuse of public funds. Three others are disqualified for 1 year and 8 months for disobedience. Violent 2019 Catalan protests, protests erupt across Catalonia.
** A ''The New York Times, New York Times'' investigation reveals that Russian planes had bombed at least 50 hospitals and clinics in opposition-held Idlib, Syria.
* October 16 – Venezuelan councilman and opposition politician Edmundo Rada is reported missing. He is found dead the following day on the side of the road out of Petare, Caracas, burned and with two coup de grâce shots in the back of his neck.
*October 17 – Shootouts erupt in Culiacán, Mexico, after the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, on an arrest warrant for drug dealing in the United States. Eight people are killed and 56 convicts escape from prison; 7 are recaptured by October 18. Guzmán López is released in an effort to restore peace and to prevent more bloodshed.
* October 18
** NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.
** 2019 Chilean protests, Riots in Chilean capital city Santiago erupt as civil unrest escalated as a reaction to a series of economic measures and Government's declarations labeled as abuse by protesters
* October 19 – An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit.
* October 23
** Essex lorry deaths, The bodies of 39 people are found in a truck container in Essex, England. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder.
** Google announces that its 53-qubit Sycamore processor, "Sycamore" processor has achieved quantum supremacy. IBM disputes the claim.
* October 25 – Tourists visit the summit of Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) for the last time, as a ban on climbing the famous rock in Australia's Northern Territory comes into effect.
* October 26 – The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, Amazon Catholic bishops synod proposes that married men be ordained as priests, which would reverse the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.
* October 27
** U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in a U.S. special forces Barisha raid, operation. It is reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.
* October 30
** Social media website Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide.
** 2019 Cotabato earthquakes, An earthquake of 6.5. M_w rocks the Philippine island of Mindanao two days after an earthquake killed at least five and left around 12,000 people homeless.
* October 31
** A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese Shurijo, Shuri Castle, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO World Heritage Site.
** 2019 Pakistan train fire, A train catches fire near Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan. The blaze, sparked by gas used by passengers cooking on board, kills at least 74 people.
** Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200,000 people are homeless in Beledweyne, Somalia. Meanwhile, 29 are dead and 29,000 homeless due to flooding in nearby Kenya.

November

* November 4
** LeBarón and Langford families massacre: Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about south of the Mexico–United States border.
** Amnesty International alleges that Bangladesh killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of Extrajudicial killing, extrajudicial executions.
** The United States formally begins process to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
* November 5 – 11,000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal ''BioScience'', warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency".
* November 6 – 2019 Fada N'Gourma attack: At least 37 people are killed and 60 others injured when gunmen attack Semafo, a Canadian gold mining company convoy on a road in Burkina Faso.
* November 7 – Former Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda is sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the longest sentence ever handed down by the International Criminal Court.
* November 9
** The Supreme Court of India awards a holy site in Ayodhya dispute, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. The move is likely to spur sectarian disputes.
** Cyclone Bulbul kills seven in West Bengal, India and seven in Bangladesh. 2,000,000 people are evacuated.
* November 10 – 2019 Bolivian protests: Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera resigns in response to fierce three-week long protests. Within hours, Adriana Salvatierra and Víctor Borda also tender their resignations, leading to a 2019 Bolivian political crisis, political crisis.
* November 11
** A transit of Mercury occurs.
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: A traffic officer shoots a youth in Sai Wan Ho during a city-wide strike. A man is also set on fire by protesters on the same day.
* November 12 – 2019 Bolivian protests: Jeanine Áñez took power as interim President of Bolivia amidst political crisis.
* November 13
** Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, Public impeachment hearings against U.S. President Donald Trump begin in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives.
** 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: The Chinese University of Hong Kong officially announces a premature end to the semester as a result of large-scale protests and civil unrest. Besides CUHK, several Hong Kong universities switch to online learning and suspend on-campus class. The Education Bureau in Hong Kong officially announces to close all schools in Hong Kong due to the ongoing protests.
* November 14
** A Saugus High School shooting, shooting occurs at Saugus High School (California), Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, United States, resulting in 3 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 3 injuries.
** Italy declares a state of emergency in Venice following record flooding.
* November 17 – 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Police use tear gas and water cannons against protesters who try to break through cordons and reach The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which is at the center of a week-long standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement. Protesters fight back with Molotov cocktails, arrows, and bricks.
* November 19 – Google enters the video game market with the launch of Google Stadia, Stadia.
* November 21 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
* November 23
** An 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum, independence referendum begins in Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Voters overwhelmingly choose independence.
** The last known Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia dies.
* November 24 – 2019 Busy Bee crash: A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground.
* November 25
** The World Meteorological Organization reports that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the Atmosphere of Earth, atmosphere have reached another new record high of 407.8 parts per million, with "no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline."
** IPv4 address exhaustion: The RIPE NCC, which is the official regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, officially announces that it has run out of IPv4 addresses.
* November 26
** 2019 Albania earthquake: 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years, and List of earthquakes in 2019#By death toll, the world's deadliest earthquake in 2019.
** 2019 Chilean protests: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issue reports on Chile's situation denouncing grave human rights violations, including excessive violence use and detention abuses by police forces. Among police brutality acts there are records of police agents firing non-lethal ammunition to protesters' faces against provider's regulations, resulting in more than 200 people with severe eye trauma and more than 50 requiring prosthetic eyes.
* November 27 – The U.S. Government passes the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.
* November 30 – December 11 – The 2019 Southeast Asian Games are held in the Philippines.

December

* December 1 – COVID-19 pandemic: First known human case of Coronavirus disease 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
* December 2 – Typhoon Kammuri (2019), Typhoon Kammuri hits the Philippines, causing the evacuation of 200,000 people, but without reports of injuries or serious damage.
* December 2 – December 13, 13 – The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Madrid, Spain, after Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced in October that his country could not host the conference due to 2019 Chilean protests, political unrest in the country.
* December 5
** The 2019 Burundi landslide is reported to have caused at least 26 deaths.
** Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asks the House Judiciary committee, House Judiciary Committee to begin drafting the articles of impeachment against President of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump.
* December 8 – Delhi factory fire, A fire at a factory in Delhi, India, kills 43 people and injures at least 50 others.
* December 9
** The World Anti-Doping Agency votes unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offences, meaning it will be excluded from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
** A volcano 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption, erupts on Whakaari/White Island, White Island in New Zealand, killing 20 people and injuring 27 others.
** 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: A Chilean military transport aircraft crashes while en route to Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva in Antarctica, killing all 38 people on board. The crash site is located on December 12.
* December 10
** Sanna Marin, at the age of 34, becomes the world's youngest serving prime minister after being selected to lead Finland's Social Democratic Party of Finland, Social Democratic Party.
** Democratic Party (United States), Democrats in the United States House of Representatives announce formal charges against President of the United States, President Donald Trump, accusing him of abusing power and "obstructing Congress"; he becomes the fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.
* December 11 – The World Trade Organization is left unable to intervene in trade disputes after the U.S. blocks the appointment of new panel members.
* December 16 – Pope Francis abolishes Pontifical secret, pontifical secrecy in Catholic Church sexual abuse cases, sex abuse cases; the move follows the Vatican's Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church months prior. The Pope also raises the definition of "Legality of child pornography, child pornography" from 14 to 18 years old.
* December 17 – ''Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong, Shandong'', China's first fully domestically built aircraft carrier, enters naval service.
* December 18
** The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched.
** The U.S. House of Representatives approves two First impeachment of Donald Trump, articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third President of the United States, president to be impeached in the nation's history.
* December 19
** Libya's Government of National Accord activates a cooperation accord with Turkey, allowing for a potential Turkish military intervention in the Libyan Civil War (2014–present), Second Libyan Civil War.
** A locust plague devastates 173,000 acres (70,000 hectares) of crop and grazing land in Ethiopia and Somalia.
** A court in the Philippines convicts Andal Ampatuan Jr., his brother Zaldy Ampatuan and 31 others including three members of the Ampatuan clan, of 57 counts of murder and sentences them to reclusion perpetua, life imprisonment without parole for their role in the Maguindanao massacre.
* December 20
** The United States founds the United States Space Force, a Military branch, branch of the United States Armed Forces dedicated to space warfare.
** The Dutch Supreme Court affirms that the Dutch government is responsible for management of carbon dioxide emissions for the country and is bound to protect human rights. The ruling reiterated from the Court of Appeals is that "every country is responsible for its share" of emissions.
* December 23
** Five men are sentenced to death and another three face 24 years in prison for their roles in the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, murder of dissident journalist and ''Washington Post'' columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
** 28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South Sumatra.
* December 24 – Thousands of Muslims protest the December 20 burning of four mosques in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.
* December 26 – An annular Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019, solar eclipse is visible from South Asia. This is a part of Solar Saros 132, Saros 132.
* December 27 – Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.
* December 28 – A December 2019 Mogadishu bombing, truck bomb attributed to Al-Shabaab (militant group), al-Shabaab kills at least 78 and wounds 125 in Mogadishu, Mogadishu, Somalia.
* December 29
** A report by the Multi-Sector Epidemic Response Committee (CMRE) indicates that 2,231 people have died so far in the Kivu Ebola epidemic, 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
** The Taliban's ruling council agrees to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, opening a door to a peace agreement with the United States.
* December 30 – Chinese authorities announce that He Jiankui, who claimed to have created the world's He Jiankui affair, first genetically edited human babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000) for his genetic research efforts.
* December 31
** Iraqi militiamen and protesters 2019–20 attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad, breach the front gate checkpoint of the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, United States embassy in Baghdad following a U.S. 2019 United States bombing of Kata'ib Hizbollah, military operation that targeted an Iraqi militia on December 29.
** COVID-19 pandemic: First official reports of "viral pneumonia" from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission

Births

* May 6 – Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, first child of the Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Duke and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Duchess of Sussex and seventh in the line of succession to the British throne

Deaths

January

* January 1 – Ivan Dimitrov (footballer), Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1935)
* January 2
** Paulien van Deutekom, Dutch world champion speed skater (born 1981)
** Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (born 1942)
** Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer and television host (born 1942)
* January 3 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (born 1931)
* January 5 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1937)
* January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, diplomat, and politician (born 1925)
* January 10 – Theo Adam, German opera singer (born 1926)
* January 11 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (born 1929)
* January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (born 1965)
* January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (born 1921)
* January 17
** Babiker Awadalla, 8th List of Prime Ministers of Sudan, Prime Minister of Sudan (born 1917)
** Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (born 1930)
** Mary Oliver, American poet (born 1935)
* January 19 – Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (born 1924)
* January 20 – Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (born 1922)
* January 21
** Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019), Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (born 1933)
** Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (born 1990)
* January 23
** Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (born 1922)
** Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1952)
** Erik Olin Wright, American Marxist sociologist (born 1947)
* January 24 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (born 1929)
* January 25
** Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (born 1932)
** Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (born 1925)
* January 26
** Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (born 1930)
** Michel Legrand, French composer (born 1932)
* January 27 – Nina Fyodorova, Russian cross-country skier (born 1947)
* January 29 – James Ingram, American R&B musician (born 1952)

February

* February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (born 1921)
* February 3
** Julie Adams, American actress (born 1926)
** Detsl, Russian musician (born 1983)
* February 4 – Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (born 1963)
* February 6
** Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)
** Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924)
* February 7
** Albert Finney, English actor (born 1936)
** Jan Olszewski, 3rd List of Prime Ministers of Poland, Prime Minister of Poland (born 1930)
** Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1935)
* February 8 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer (born 1917)
* February 9
** Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (born 1988)
** Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator (born 1931)
* February 10 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1945)
* February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (born 1925)
* February 12
** Gordon Banks, English footballer (born 1937)
** Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (born 1942)
* February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (born 1956)
* February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (born 1933)
* February 16
** Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (born 1941)
** Li Rui (politician), Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian and dissident (born 1917)
* February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian folk singer (born 1951)
* February 18
** Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist (born 1931)
** Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer (born 1931)
* February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (born 1933)
* February 20 – Dominick Argento, American composer (born 1927)
* February 21
** Stanley Donen, American film director (born 1924)
** Peter Tork, American musician and actor (born 1942)
** Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (born 1917)
* February 22 – Morgan Woodward, American actor (born 1925)
* February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (born 1929)
* February 24
** Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1925)
** Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (born 1922)
* February 25 – Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (born 1934)
* February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (born 1959)
* February 27 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (born 1935)
* February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (born 1929)

March

* March 1
** Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (born 1930)
** Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (born 1922)
* March 2
** Yannis Behrakis, Greek photojournalist (born 1960)
** Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1936)
* March 4
** King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (born 1957)
** Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (born 1934)
** Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (born 1969)
** Klaus Kinkel, German politician (born 1936)
** Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (born 1925)
** Luke Perry, American actor (born 1966)
* March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (born 1934)
* March 6 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (born 1939)
* March 6 – Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (born 1949)
* March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (born 1927)
* March 9
** Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (born 1916)
** Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (born 1922)
* March 10 – İrsen Küçük, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (born 1940)
* March 11 – Hal Blaine, American drummer (born 1929)
* March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (born 1961)
* March 14
** Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (born 1933)
** Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (born 1952)
* March 15
** W. S. Merwin, American poet (born 1927)
** Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 3rd Military Committee for National Salvation, Head of State of Mauritania (born 1943)
* March 16
** Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (born 1937)
** Richard Erdman, American actor (born 1925)
** Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (born 1939)
** Alan Krueger, American economist (born 1960)
* March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker (born 1925)
* March 20
** Donald Kalpokas, 2nd Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1943)
** Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Mary Warnock, British philosopher (born 1924)
* March 22
** Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (born 1929)
** Scott Walker (singer), Scott Walker, American-born British singer-songwriter (born 1943)
* March 23
** Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (born 1936)
** Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (born 1926)
* March 27
** Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1934)
** Abdul Latif Dayfallah, 2nd Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic (born 1930)
* March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French filmmaker (born 1928)
* March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (born 1985)

April

* April 1
** Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (born 1948)
** Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (born 1927)
* April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (born 1930)
* April 5
** Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (born 1927)
** Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (born 1939)
* April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (born 1934)
* April 7
** Seymour Cassel, American actor (born 1935)
** Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (born 1949)
* April 9
** Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (born 1940)
** Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (born 1926)
* April 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
* April 12 – Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945), Tommy Smith, English footballer (born 1945)
* April 13
** Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (born 1942)
** Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (born 1925)
** Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (born 1920)
** Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (born 1929)
* April 14
** Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (born 1935)
** Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia (born 1942)
** Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (born 1931)
* April 17 – Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (born 1949)
* April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (born 1990)
* April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (born 1944)
* April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (born 1922)
* April 22
** Lê Đức Anh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (born 1920)
** Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1940)
* April 23 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1921)
* April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (born 1932)
* April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (born 1940)
* April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (born 1930)
* April 27 – Negasso Gidada, Ethiopian politician, 4th President of Ethiopia (born 1943)
* April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1968)
* April 29 – Les Murray (poet), Les Murray, Australian poet (born 1938)
* April 30 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (born 1944)

May

* May 2
** Red Kelly, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (born 1927)
** Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (born 1939)
* May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (born 1930)
* May 6 – Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (born 1933)
* May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher (born 1928)
* May 8
**Sprent Dabwido, 13th President of Nauru (born 1972)
** Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian composer (born 1934)
* May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (born 1927)
* May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (born 1951)
* May 11
** Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (born 1946)
** Silver King (wrestler), Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (born 1968)
* May 12
** Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (born 1924)
** Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (born 1920)
* May 13
** Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (born 1933)
** Doris Day, American actress and singer (born 1922)
* May 14
** Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (born 1933)
** Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (born 1932)
* May 16
** Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
** Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (born 1979)
** I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)
* May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (born 1915)
* May 19
** Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1922)
** Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (born 1936)
* May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (born 1949)
* May 21 – Glauco Sansovini, List of Captains Regent of San Marino, Captain Regent of San Marino (born 1938)
* May 22
** Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator (born 1923)
** Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science popularizer (born 1936)
** Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (born 1930)
* May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American Nobel physicist (born 1929)
* May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (born 1926)
* May 26
** Bart Starr, American football player and coach (born 1934)
** Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)
* May 27 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (born 1949)
* May 28
** Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (born 1940)
** Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1930)
* May 30 – Leon Redbone, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (born 1949)
* May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (born 1947)

June

* June 1
** José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (born 1983)
** Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (born 1930)
** Ani Yudhoyono, 6th First Lady of Indonesia (born 1952)
* June 2 – Ken Matthews (race walker), Ken Matthews, English race walker (born 1934)
* June 3
** Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1977)
** Jurica Jerković, Croatian footballer (born 1950)
* June 4
** Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official (born 1929)
** Nechama Rivlin, Israeli socialite, 10th First Lady of Israel (born 1945)
* June 5 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (born 1928)
* June 6 – Dr. John, American musician (born 1941)
* June 8 – Andre Matos, André Matos, Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer (born 1971)
* June 9 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)
* June 10
** Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (born 1938)
** Lee Hee-ho, South Korean peace activist, 15th First Lady of South Korea (born 1922)
* June 11
** Gabriele Grunewald, American track-and-field athlete (born 1986)
** Billy McKee, Northern Irish paramilitary leader and founder of the Provisional IRA (born 1921)
* June 12 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (born 1924)
* June 13 – Edith González, Mexican actress (born 1964)
* June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (born 1923)
* June 16 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (born 1924)
* June 17
** Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (born 1951)
** Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite (born 1924)
* June 19 – Etika, American YouTuber (born 1990)
* June 20 – Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (born 1929)
* June 21 – Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus (born 1946)
* June 22
** Miguel Ángel Falasca, Argentine-born Spanish volleyball player and coach (born 1973)
** Thalles (footballer, born 1995), Thalles, Brazilian footballer (born 1995)
* June 23
** Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer (born 1918)
** George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (born 1916)
* June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (born 1945)
* June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (born 1929)
* June 26
** Beth Chapman (bounty hunter), Beth Chapman, American bounty hunter and reality star (born 1967)
** Édith Scob, French film and theatre actress (born 1937)
** Max Wright, American actor (born 1943)
* June 29
** Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (born 1970)
** Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine cartoonist (born 1932)
* June 30
** Momir Bulatović, 1st President of Montenegro, President of the Republic of Montenegro (born 1956)
** Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (born 1944)

July

* July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (born 1924)
* July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (born 1929)
* July 4
** Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (born 1924)
** Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (born 1929)
** Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (born 1930)

* July 6 – João Gilberto, Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter (born 1931)
* July 7 – Artur Brauner, German film director (born 1918)
* July 9
** Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (born 1937)
** Rip Torn, American actor (born 1931)
* July 10 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (born 1923)
* July 12
** Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (born 1926)
** Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (born 1932)
* July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (born 1934)
* July 14
** Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (born 1930)
** Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (born 1964)
* July 16 – Johnny Clegg, South African musician and anthropologist (born 1953)
* July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (born 1925)
* July 18
** David Hedison, American actor (born 1927)
** Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (born 1947)
* July 19
** Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (born 1944)
** Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (born 1929)
** César Pelli, Argentine architect (born 1926)
* July 20 – Ilaria Occhini, Italian actress (born 1934)
* July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (born 1926)
* July 22
** Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (born 1924)
** Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1928)
* July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President of Tunisia, President and 18th Head of Government of Tunisia, Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)
* July 26
** Russi Taylor, American voice actress (born 1944)
** Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (born 1936)
* July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American Nobel physicist (born 1931)
* July 28 – George Hilton (actor), George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (born 1934)
* July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (born 1933)
* July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (born 1928)

August

* August 1
** Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (born 1942)
** D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (born 1925)
** Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (born 1943)
* August 3
** Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (born 1932)
** Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (born 1929)
** Mike Troy, American swimmer (born 1940)
* August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1926)
* August 5 – Toni Morrison, American Nobel writer (born 1931)
* August 7 – Kary Mullis, American Nobel biochemist (born 1944)
* August 8
** Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (born 1932)
** Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1929)
* August 9
** Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (born 1938)
** Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-born Serbian footballer and manager (born 1939)
* August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (born 1953)
* August 11
** Walter Martínez (footballer, born 1982), Walter Martínez, Honduran footballer (born 1982)
** Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (born 1931)
* August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer (born 1956)
* August 13 – Cecilia Caballero Blanco, Colombian socialite, 24th First Lady of Colombia (born 1913)
* August 16
** Princess Christina of the Netherlands (born 1947)
** Peter Fonda, American actor (born 1940)
** Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (born 1942)
** José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (born 1940)
** Richard Williams (animator), Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (born 1933)
* August 17 – Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (born 1938)
* August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (born 1942)
* August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, List of Jordanian consorts, Queen consort of Jordan (born 1929)
* August 22
** Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (born 1979)
** Tim Fischer, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (born 1946)
* August 23
** David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (born 1940)
** Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (born 1939)
* August 24 – Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine ski racer (born 1963)
* August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (born 1937)
* August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (born 1928)
* August 27
** Jessi Combs, American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator (born 1980)
** Dawda Jawara, 2nd Prime Minister of the Gambia, Prime Minister of Gambia and 1st President of Gambia (born 1924)
* August 28
** Michel Aumont, French actor (born 1936)
** Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (born 1947)
* August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (born 1923)
* August 30
** Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (born 1941)
** Valerie Harper, American actress (born 1939)
* August 31
** Anthoine Hubert, French racing driver (born 1996)
** Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (born 1930)

September

* September 2 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (born 1934)
* September 3
** Halvard Hanevold, Norwegian biathlete (born 1969)
** Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (born 1944)
** Carol Lynley, American actress (born 1942)
** José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian cardinal (born 1919)
* September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (born 1922)
* September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican Zapotec painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940)
* September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
* September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (born 1946)
* September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (born 1924)
* September 11
** B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (born 1936)
** Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and visual artist (born 1961)
* September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)
* September 13
** Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (born 1934)
** Rudi Gutendorf, German footballer and manager (born 1926)
** György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and political dissident (born 1933)
** Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (born 1949)
* September 15
** Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (born 1939)
** Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (born 1936)
** Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1944)
* September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (born 1928)
* September 17
** Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress (born 1979)
** Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (born 1943)
* September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (born 1976)
* September 19
** Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 14th Head of Government of Tunisia, Prime Minister and 2nd President of Tunisia (born 1936)
** Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (born 1925)
** Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (born 1927)
* September 20 – Su Beng, Taiwanese dissident, political activist and historian (born 1918)
* September 21
** Sid Haig, American actor (born 1939)
** Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut (born 1937)
** Günter Kunert, German writer (born 1929)
* September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Soviet and Russian equestrian (born 1928)
* September 23 – Robert Hunter (lyricist), Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (born 1941)
* September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (born 1927)
* September 26
** Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (born 1932)
** William Levada, American cardinal (born 1936)
** Gennadi Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1950)
* September 28
** José José, Mexican singer and actor (born 1948)
** Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (born 1949)
** Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian director and playwright (born 1933)
* September 30
** Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (born 1941)
** Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist (born 1945)

October

* October 1
** Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (born 1939)
** Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (born 1926)
* October 2
** Giya Kancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (born 1935)
** Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (born 1987)
* October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1941)
* October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (born 1935)
* October 6
** Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939)
** Martin Lauer, German athlete (born 1937)
** Rip Taylor, American comedian and actor (born 1931)
* October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (born 1924)
* October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (born 1937)
* October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (born 1940)
* October 11
** Robert Forster, American actor (born 1941)
** Alexei Leonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1934)
* October 12
** Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (born 1962)
** Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (born 1984)
** Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (born 1936)
* October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (born 1939)
* October 14
** Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (born 1930)
** Sulli, South Korean singer and actress (born 1994)
* October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (born 1929)
* October 16 – John Tate (mathematician), John Tate, American mathematician (born 1925)
* October 17
** Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (born 1920)
** Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (born 1924)
* October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (born 1952)
* October 19 – Alexander Volkov (tennis), Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (born 1967)
* October 20 – Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (born 1933)
* October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (born 1930)
* October 22
** Raymond Leppard, British conductor, composer and editor (born 1927)
** Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor (born 1927)
** Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer (born 1979)
* October 26
** Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (born 1948)
** Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (born 1930)
* October 27
**Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL (born 1971)
** Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (born 1942)
* October 29 – John Witherspoon (actor), John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)

November

* November 2
** Norbert Eder, German footballer (born 1955)
** Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (born 1930)
** Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (born 1940)
** Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (born 1939)
* November 4
** Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster and radio personality (born 1934)
** Jacques Dupont (cyclist), Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (born 1928)
* November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (born 1935)
* November 6 – Jan Stráský, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1940)
* November 7
** Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (born 1927)
** Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (born 1938)
* November 8 – Anatoly Krutikov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1933)
* November 10 – István Szívós (water polo, born 1948), István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (born 1948)
* November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (born 1933)
* November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (born 1955)
* November 13 – Raymond Poulidor, French bicycle racer (born 1936)
* November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (born 1932)
* November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (born 1923)
* November 16
** John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (born 1947)
** Terry O'Neill (photographer), Terry O'Neill, British photographer (born 1938)
* November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Acting List of Prime Ministers of Iraq, Prime Minister of Iraq (born 1923)
* November 18 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina (born 1943)
* November 19 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1931)
* November 20
** Mary L. Good, American chemist (born 1931)
** Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (born 1923)
* November 21
** Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (born 1940)
** Jean Douchet, French film critic, actor and director (born 1929)
** Michael J. Pollard, American actor (born 1939)
* November 22
** Eugène Camara, 7th List of prime ministers of Guinea, Prime Minister of Guinea (born 1942)
** Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (born 1926)
* November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)
* November 26
** Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (born 1923)
** Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (born 1943)
* November 27
** Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (born 1984)
** Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (born 1934)
* November 28 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1956)
* November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1918)
* November 30 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (born 1943)

December

* December 2
** D. C. Fontana, American television writer (born 1939)
** Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (born 1937)
* December 4
** Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (born 1941)
** Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese-Afghan physician (born 1946)
** Bob Willis, English cricketer (born 1949)
* December 5 – Robert Walker (actor, born 1940), Robert Walker, American actor (born 1940)
* December 6
** Ron Leibman, American actor (born 1937)
** Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (born 1922)
* December 7
** Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (born 1940)
** Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1965)
* December 8
** René Auberjonois, American actor (born 1940)
** Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (born 1931)
** Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer (born 1933)
** Paul Volcker, American economist (born 1927)
** Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (born 1943)
** Juice Wrld, American rapper (born 1998)
* December 9
** Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (born 1958)
** Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (born 1923)
* December 10 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (born 1922)
* December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (born 1933)
* December 12
** Danny Aiello, American actor (born 1933)
** Jorge Hernández (boxer), Jorge Hernández, Cuban boxer (born 1954)
** Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete (born 1938)
* December 14 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress (born 1940)
* December 17 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (born 1938)
* December 18 – Claudine Auger, French actress (born 1941)
* December 20
** Roland Matthes, German swimmer (born 1950)
** Marko Orlandić, 10th President of Montenegro (born 1930)
* December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer (born 1943)
* December 22
** Tony Britton, English actor (born 1924)
** Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (born 1931)
** Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (born 1933)
* December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović (Bosnian politician), Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th List of Prime Ministers of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1954)
*December 24 – Allee Willis, American songwriter, artist, and art director (born 1947)
* December 25
** Ari Behn, Norwegian author (born 1972)
** Peter Schreier, German operatic tenor and conductor (born 1935)
* December 26
** Jerry Herman, American composer (born 1931)
** Sue Lyon, American actress (born 1946)
** Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (born 1933)
* December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (born 1940)
* December 29
** Alasdair Gray, Scottish visual artist and author (born 1934)
** Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (born 1944)
* December 30
** Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (born 1925)
** Syd Mead, American concept artist (born 1933)
* December 31
** Djimrangar Dadnadji, 16th Prime Minister of Chad (born 1954)
** Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh politician and economist (born 1937)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Peter Handke
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Abiy Ahmed
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Jim Peebles, James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – William Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza

See also

*
* List of International observances#Years, List of international years

Overviews

* 2019 national electoral calendar
* 2019 United States elections

Specific events and situations

* 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
* Brexit
* Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
* 2019 British prorogation controversy
* 2019 Italian government crisis
* Conte II Cabinet

References

External links

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