2019: The Year in People

Generation Alpha · Year of the Pig 🐖 · Born in 2019 turn 7 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$2.60

Median home

$224,400

Minimum wage

$7.25/hr

Movie ticket

$9.16

US population

7.71B

US president

Donald Trump

Top song

"Old Town Road" — Lil Nas X

Top film

Avengers: Endgame

Top TV show

Sunday Night Football

Best Picture

Parasite

In the news: First image of a black hole; Hong Kong protests

What happened in 2019

2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.

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Died in 2019

Cameron Boyce1999–2019 · American actor
Doris Day1922–2019 · American actress and singer
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi1971–2019 · Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019
Albert Finney1936–2019 · English actor
Alexei Leonov1934–2019 · Soviet cosmonaut
Carol Channing1921–2019 · American actress
André Previn1929–2019 · American musician
Bob Einstein1942–2019 · American actor and comedy writer
Beth Chapman1967–2019 · American reality television star
Arun Jaitley1952–2019 · Indian politician and attorney
Ashley Massaro1979–2019 · American professional wrestler
Danny Aiello1933–2019 · American actor