July 19

Events

 * 1913 - publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"
 * 1923 - in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions

Births

 * 1670 –, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
 * 1925 –, American pop and country music singer
 * 1941 –, American singer
 * 1946 –, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
 * 1947 –, American musician (The Eagles)
 * 1947 –, English musician (Queen)
 * 1948 –, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
 * 1952 –, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
 * 1956 –, English musician (d. 2006)
 * 1965 –, Scottish percussionist
 * 1967 –, Canadian Operatic Tenor
 * 1968 –, American musician (Machine Head)
 * 1971 –, American musician (Symphony X)
 * 1971 –, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
 * 1972 –, Japanese actor and singer
 * 1973 –, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
 * 1981 –, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)

Deaths

 * 1975 –, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
 * 2002 –, American folksinger (b. 1952)
 * 2002 –, American folksong collector (b. 1915)