1451, 19th April: Bahlol Khan Lodi captured Delhi.
1526, 19th April: Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.
1770, 19th April: Captain James Cook became the first Western man to reach Australia.
1775, 19th April: Beginning of the American Revolutionary war.
1910, 19th April: Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve, and Vinayak Deshpande were executed.
1948, 19th April: Burma joined the United Nations.
1971, 19th April: Sierra Leone became a republic.
1975, 19th April: Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, launched from the Russian space station.
2011, 19th April: Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
1868: Paul Harris, founder of the Rotary Club.
1933: Dickie Bird, an English retired international cricket umpire.
1956: Mukesh Rishi, an Indian actor.
1957: Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.
1968: Arshad Warsi, an Indian film actor.
1977: Anju Bobby George, a retired Indian athlete.
1987: Maria Sharapova, a Russian retired professional tennis player.
1882: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist.
1906: Pierre Curie, a French physicist.
1910: Anant Laxman Kanhere, an Indian independence fighter.
1955: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.
1974: Muhammad Ayub Khan, the second President of Pakistan.
2003: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
2004: Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records.
2008: Sarojini Babar, an Indian-Marathi writer, and politician.