Today in History
March 19, 2026
15 notable people were born on this day
Born on March 19
View all →José María Velasco Ibarra
1893 – 1979
President of Ecuador (1934 - 1935) / (1944 - 1947) / (1952 - 1956) / (1960 - 1961) / (1968 - 1972)
Albert Speer
1905 – 1981
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
GermanyAdolf Eichmann
1906 – 1962
German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)
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Mahathir Mohamad
1925 – Present
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020
Klaus Iohannis
1959 – Present
President of Romania from 2014 to 2025
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
1945 – Present
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
1961 – Present
President of the United Arab Emirates
Alexis Tsipras
1974 – Present
Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019)
Dani Rodrik
1957 – Present
Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)