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2019 has been assigned as International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly given that it coincides with the 150th anniversary of its creation by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.

January

 * January 1
 * All works published in 1923 except sound recordings (see 2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
 * Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
 * Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) (486958) 2014 MU69 at 05:33 UTC.
 * Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
 * Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
 * January 2 – Great Belt Bridge rail accident: A DSB express passenger train is hit by a semi-trailer from a passing cargo train on the western bridge of the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark, killing eight people and making it the deadliest rail accident in the country since 1988.
 * January 3 – Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
 * January 5 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople issues a formal decree granting 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 monarch of Malaysia, making him the first Malaysian monarch to do so.
 * January 7 – A faction of the Armed Forces of Gabon announces a coup d'état. Gabon's government later declares that it has reasserted control.
 * January 10 – Venezuela enters a constitutional crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate" and start the process of attempting to remove him.
 * January 15 – Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack: A terrorist attack at an upscale hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, kills 21 people (including 5 attackers) and injures 28 more.
 * January 17 – A vehicle-bound suicide bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, kills 22 people and injures 68 others, making it the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since 2003.
 * January 18 – Fuel thieves rupture a pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, and a subsequent explosion kills at least 137 people and injures dozens more.
 * January 19 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, causing two deaths and as many as 200,000 people left without power. Despite its moderate magnitude, since it was an intraplate earthquake, it caused some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities.
 * January 21 – 2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu crash: An aircraft carrying new Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson en route from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales, goes missing over the English Channel. Sala's body is recovered on February 7.
 * January 23 – 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with the United States.
 * January 25 – A mine tailings dam breaks in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing.
 * January 27 – Two bombs at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo, Philippines, kill at least 20 people and leave more than 100 others injured.
 * January 28 – The U.S. Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising 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. 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.
 * February 5 – The Taliban kills at least 47 people in attacks while Afghan–Taliban peace talks are taking place in Moscow. 12 others are injured.
 * February 6 – The Freedom House NGO states that Hungary was no longer a free country, making it the first such country in the European Union to be so.
 * February 7 – 2019 Haitian protests: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.
 * February 12 – The Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, ending a decades-old dispute with Greece, paving the way for its integration into NATO and the European Union.
 * February 13 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle kills at least 27 Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran. It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Iran in years.
 * February 14 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir kills at least 40 Indian security personnel, making it the deadliest attack on India's security personnel in Kashmir in three decades.
 * February 20 – A major fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh kills at least 78 people.
 * February 21 – SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.
 * February 23
 * 2019 Nigerian general election, for the President; all 360 seats in the House of Representatives and all 110 seats in the Senate.
 * 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with Colombia as humanitarian aid attempts to enter the country across the border.
 * February 26–27 – The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan; according to Indian claims, "a very large number of ... terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis" were killed, although Pakistan denied the claims and a number of neutral sources suggest that this was not the case.  The following day, Pakistan retaliated, leading to the shooting down of an Indian MiG-21 fighter, whose pilot was repatriated on March 1. The incidents led to the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff.
 * February 27 – Ramses Station rail disaster: A train smashes into a barrier inside Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, causing an explosion and a fire, killing 25 people and injuring 40 others.
 * February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.

March

 * March 3
 * An unmanned 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 takes place, for all 101 seats in the Riigikogu.
 * March 5 – A second case of sustained remission from HIV is reported, ten years after the Berlin Patient.
 * March 6 – 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuela expels German ambassador Daniel Kriener for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.
 * March 10 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board. All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are subsequently grounded worldwide.
 * March 12 – Cargo ship Grande America sinks after it caught fire on March 10 in the Bay of Biscay, approximately 200 km west of France, causing a 2,200-tonne oil spill.
 * March 13
 * March 2019 North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.
 * Australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.
 * March 15
 * 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand: Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, both of which were the target of shootings by Australia-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand history and described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". Subsequently, Facebook announced they had disabled 1.5 million videos of the gunman's rampage.
 * Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
 * 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.
 * American Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics.
 * March 20 – Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.
 * March 21 – A major explosion at a chemical plant in Xiangshui, Jiangsu, China, kills at least 78 people and injures more than 600 others. Its powerful impact registered as an artificial earthquake.
 * March 23
 * The final territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, located in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, Syria, is liberated.
 * An estimated 400,000 people march in central London in protest against Brexit.
 * March 24
 * The 2019 Thai general election takes place, for all 500 seats in the House of Representatives.
 * A four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign is published by the U.S. Attorney General William Barr. It concludes that there was no collusion with Russia – the basis of the investigation – but on the issue of obstruction of justice states: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him".
 * March 26 – The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites and includes the controversial Article 13.
 * March 31 – Taiwan scrambles its fighter aircraft after two Chinese jets crossed a maritime border between the two nations. Just the day before, Japan had similarly scrambled its jets when the Chinese flew between two Japanese islands, Miyako and Okinawa.

April

 * April 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria amid widespread protests, after nearly two decades in office.
 * April 4 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli and capturing Gharyan. The LNA says that the operation, ordered by General Khalifa Haftar, is aimed at "cleansing the western zone from terrorist groups".
 * April 9 – The April 2019 Israeli legislative election takes place, for all 120 seats in the Knesset.
 * April 10
 * Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.
 * Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named after the island where it was discovered, Luzon.
 * April 11
 * WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
 * Amid mass protests, Omar al-Bashir is deposed as President of Sudan in a coup d'état, after nearly 30 years in office.
 * The 2019 Indian general election begins, along with elections in six states. Counting takes place on 23 May.
 * April 15 – During Holy Week, a major fire engulfs 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 17
 * The 2019 Indonesian general election takes place; for the President, 575 seats in the People's Representative Council, and 136 seats in the Regional Representative Council.
 * At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
 * April 18
 * The full 448-page report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Election (the Mueller Report) is released in redacted form.
 * NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
 * April 21
 * A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter Sunday, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured.  This is the first major terrorist attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009.
 * Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine in a runoff election. Zelensky previously portrayed a fictional Ukrainian president in the television series Servant of the People.
 * April 25 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Russia to hold a series of summits with Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin.
 * April 28
 * The 2019 Spanish general election takes place, for all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of the 266) seats in the Senate. The PSOE, under Pedro Sánchez, wins the most seats, but not an outright majority.
 * 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 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization, appears in undated footage released by the group, his first appearance on video since 2014. In the video, he references the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, indicating it was filmed very recently.
 * April 30
 * Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicates from his throne, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the Heisei era of Japan and ushers in the Reiwa era with new emperor Naruhito ascending the throne on 1 May.
 * 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan opposition leader and disputed interim President Juan Guaidó leads an attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro.

May

 * May 1
 * King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida Tidjai – a commoner – in a surprise ceremony, making her queen consort of Thailand.
 * Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers. Proponents of the bill say it ensures Russian internet security and decreases dependence on foreign servers while critics argue it gives new censorship powers to the government and is a part of a global trend of cyber-balkanization.
 * May 3 – The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, only surpassed by the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016.
 * May 3–6 – May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes: The Gaza–Israel conflict escalates after the Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza killing more than 20 Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a toddler following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
 * May 4–6 – Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
 * 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 major ground offensive against one of the last 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 drug-resistant infection.
 * May 10 – Amid ongoing negotiations, the United States' 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of 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 the port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman. The United Arab Emirates claims the incident was a "sabotage attack", while an early United States assessment reportedly blames Iran for the attack. The incident occurs during a time of regional tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with the U.S. just weeks prior deploying strategic bombers, a carrier strike group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf following intelligence reports of an alleged plot by Iran to attack U.S. forces in the region.
 * May 13
 * The 2019 Philippine general election takes place, for all 297 seats in the House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Senate.
 * Prosecutors in Sweden reopen the rape allegation investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Swedish prosecutors mention their intent to seek extradition of Assange from the United Kingdom after he has served his 50-week prison sentence for skipping bail.
 * May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is won by Dutch entrant Duncan Laurence with the song "Arcade".
 * May 17
 * Taiwan's parliament becomes the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
 * Ibiza affair: A corruption scandal involving the Vice-Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and deputy leader of the Freedom Party Johann Gudenus offering to fix state contracts with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch at a 2017 meeting in Spain leads to the collapse of the coalition government and calls for snap elections.
 * May 18 – 2019 Australian federal election: Scott Morrison's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected, defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.
 * May 19
 * Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in Belém, Brazil.
 * China–United States trade war: Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the Chinese technology company was blacklisted by the United States.
 * May 20 – The redefinition of the SI system of measurement adopted by the majority of countries in the world takes effect.
 * May 23–26 – The 2019 European Parliament election takes place. The election has a 51 percent voter turnout, the highest since the first direct elections in 1979.
 * May 23
 * 2019 Indian general election: Narendra Modi secures a landslide win, with his party BJP alone gaining 303 of the 543 seats in parliament, and his political alliance winning 353 seats of the 543.
 * Botswana lifts its five-year prohibition on elephant hunting.
 * May 24
 * British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Conservative leader, effective June 7, 2019.
 * A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.
 * May 26–27 – Amazonas prison massacres: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in Amazonas, Brazil.
 * May 27 – U.S. President Donald Trump, during an official state visit to Japan, is the first foreign leader to meet with Japanese emperor Naruhito.
 * May 29
 * Former European Court of Justice judge Egils Levits is elected the 10th President of Latvia.
 * Sinking of Hableány: The Hableány, a sightseeing river cruise ship on the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, collides with another vessel and sinks with two Hungarian crew members and 33 South Korean tourists on board. At least 25 people have been found dead and 3 others remain missing.
 * Less than two months after the April 9 Israeli legislative elections, the Israeli Knesset dissolves itself and votes to hold new elections in September 17, after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition government within the allotted time.
 * May 30 – July 14 – The 2019 Cricket World Cup is held in England and Wales, and is won by England.
 * May 30 – South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports that North Korea executed nuclear envoy Kim Hyok-chol and four other diplomats in March after the failed February Hanoi summit with the United States. The newspaper also reports that Kim Yong-chol, a top aide to Kim Jong-un, was sentenced to hard labor during the purge.

June

 * June 2
 * Nearly five years after abdication, King Juan Carlos I of Spain retires from public life.
 * 2019 San Marino referendum: Sammarinese voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the reform of the electoral system.
 * June 3 – Khartoum massacre: More than 100 people are killed when Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a protest camp outside of a military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
 * June 3–5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the United Kingdom, meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
 * June 5–8 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
 * June 5 – The 2019 Danish general election takes place, for all 179 seats in the Folketing.
 * June 6
 * 2018–19 Sudanese protests: The African Union suspends Sudan's membership "with immediate effect" after the Khartoum massacre.
 * Following results from the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, a new government is formed consisting of 58 percent women.
 * June 7 – British Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as leader of the Conservative Party.
 * June 7 – July 7 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in France and is won by the United States.
 * June 9
 * 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to China. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover.
 * A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia sends a 7,000-meter ash column, generating a pyroclastic flow 3–3.5 kilometers long towards the south and southeast of the mountain.
 * June 11 – Botswana decriminalizes homosexuality.
 * June 12
 * The Supreme Court of Ecuador rules in favor of same-sex marriage, making it legal throughout the country.
 * 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: The Hong Kong government and 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 and the United States, with the latter blaming the former for the incident.
 * June 14 – Jane Goodall, British primatologist, is awarded the 2019 Luxembourg Prize for Outstanding Environmental Peace.
 * June 15 – 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
 * June 16 – A large-scale power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay, affecting nearly 50 million people.
 * June 17 – A triple suicide blast kills 30 and injures 40 in Borno, Nigeria, at a hall where people were watching a football match.
 * June 18 – The 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, the airliner shot down while flying over Ukraine in July 2014.
 * June 20–21 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to North Korea. It is his first visit to the country as president and the 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 United States RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz after claiming it violated their airspace. The U.S. claims it was 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 27 – Angara Airlines Flight 200 overruns the runway during landing and collides with a building, killing the captain and flight engineer, and injuring a further 22 people. Only 45 people survive the crash at Nizhneangarsk Airport, Russia.
 * June 30 – During a trilateral gathering at the Panmunjom Truce Village between South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and United States 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 denuclearization negotiations.

July

 * July – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports, on August 15, that July 2019 was the hottest month on record globally, at 0.95 °C (1.71 °F) above the 20th-century average.
 * July 1
 * Japan resumes 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 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 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: During the annual July 1 protests that mark the anniversary of the British handover of the city to China, a group of a few hundred protesters stormed the Hong Kong legislature, defacing various portraits and destroying furniture before being dispersed by police using tear gas.
 * A fire on the Russian deep-diving submarine Losharik kills 14 crew members. Submarine commander Denis Dolonsky was among those killed.
 * July 2 – A total solar eclipse occurs over South America. It is the 58th solar eclipse from 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, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injures 130 others.
 * July 7 – The 2019 Greek legislative election takes place. Leader of the Opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis, from New Democracy, wins the election and is sworn in Prime Minister as left-wing incumbent Alexis Tsipras falls to second place.
 * July 10 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in 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 claims responsibility.
 * July 13 – 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 November 1, 2019. She is the first female to be elected to this office in EU history.
 * July 17
 * 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 Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.
 * July 18 – At least 35 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the 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 British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.
 * July 24 – Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a 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.

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 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 3 – A mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States, leaves 22 people dead and 24 others injured.
 * August 4
 * 2019 Cairo bombing: A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the National Cancer Institute Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others.
 * 2019 Dayton shooting: Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States, just 13 hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
 * August 5
 * Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir: India revokes the part of its constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status in an unprecedented move.
 * 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill 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, 29 miles (47 km) away 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 makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
 * August 10–25 – 2019 Canary Islands wildfires: A number of 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 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests.
 * 2019 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 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 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, was Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and was a critic of the Baltic country's financial authorities.
 * August 18 – 100 activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after once covering six square miles (15.5 km2).
 * 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 (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 1700 mile 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 Amazon fires as an international emergency, urging the matter to be discussed at the weekend's 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 was the first such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the 2006 Lebanon War.

September

 * September 1 – Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph. 43 deaths are reported.
 * September 2
 * 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.
 * An Iranian woman named Sahar Khodayari sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in Iran. She dies a week later.
 * September 4 – 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial 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 was successful to put the orbit 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 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 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 habitable zone around a star.
 * September 14 – 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack: Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. 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 and anthrax.
 * September 17 – Israel holds legislative elections for the second time in 2019, after the 21st Knesset voted to dissolve itself due to Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to cobble a parliamentary coalition.
 * September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.
 * September 20 – An international strike and protest led by young people and adults is held three days before the latest 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 Union World Cup is held in Japan, with matches in 12 cities. The opening match will be in the Tokyo district of Chōfu, and the final in Yokohama.
 * 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 September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran vow to defend themselves.
 * September 22 – Nearly three weeks after 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, goes bankrupt as last-minute rescue negotiations fail, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.
 * Russia formally adopts the Paris climate agreement.
 * September 24
 * The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously rules that the September 2019 prorogation of Parliament was 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.
 * U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal 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 28
 * The 2019 Afghan presidential election takes place.
 * Hurricane Lorenzo becomes the furthest northeast Category 5 hurricane on record.
 * September 30 – Ireland promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to combat climate change.

October

 * October 1
 * 2019 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
 * Paris police headquarters stabbing: A man stabs five officers at the central police headquarters in Paris, France, killing four of them. The attacker, shot dead by other officers, was an administrative intelligence employee at the station.
 * The European Court of Justice rules that Facebook must take down a post about Austrian politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek. The post originated in Ireland and the court ruled that the post defamed and insulted the politician and must be removed all over the world.
 * European Commission spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the 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 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Chief Executive in Council invokes the Emergency Regulations Ordinance and banning the face mask in public gatherings with immediate effect.
 * October 5 – 2019 Iraqi protests: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in Iraq.
 * October 6 – The 2019 Portuguese legislative election takes place, for all 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic.
 * 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 SDF and other Kurdish militias.
 * The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the 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 makes landfall in Japan, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate.
 * October 13 – The 2019 Polish parliamentary election takes place, for all 460 seats in the Sejm and all 100 seats in the Senate.
 * 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 protests erupts across Catalonia.
 * A New York Times investigation reveals that Russian planes have bombed at least 50 hospitals and clinics in opposition-held Idlib, Syria.
 * October 17 – Shootouts erupt in Culiacán, Mexico, after the arrest of 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 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 20 – The 2019 Bolivian general election takes place.
 * October 21 – The 2019 Canadian federal election takes place, for all 338 seats in the House of Commons of Canada. Justin Trudeau wins a narrow victory to form a minority government.

Predicted and scheduled

 * October–November – The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets, is expected to be launched.
 * October 26 – Climbing Uluru will be banned.
 * October 27
 * 2019 Argentine general election, for president.
 * 2019 Uruguayan general election, for president.
 * October 31 – The United Kingdom's membership of the European Union will cease in accordance with Article 50 after being delayed twice from March 29 and April 12. However, another extension to January 31, 2020 could occur due to the Parliament failing to reach a deal on October 19.
 * November − Google will enter the video game market with the launch of the Google Stadia.
 * November 10 – November 2019 Spanish general election, for all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of the 266) seats in the Senate.
 * November 11 – Transit of Mercury occurs.
 * November 23 – 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum.
 * December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia. The eclipse will be a part of Saros 132.

Date unknown

 * The European Spallation Source is expected to go into operation in Lund, Sweden.
 * SpaceX expects to perform suborbital hop tests of their Starship prototype.

Births

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

January



 * January 1
 * Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
 * Pegi Young, American singer-songwriter, educator, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
 * January 2
 * Paulien van Deutekom, Dutch world champion speed skater (b. 1981)
 * Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
 * Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942)
 * January 3 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (b. 1931)
 * January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
 * January 5
 * Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (b. 1928)
 * Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
 * January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)
 * January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
 * January 9 – Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938)
 * January 10 – Theo Adam, German opera singer (b. 1926)
 * January 11
 * Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
 * Fernando Luján, Mexican actor (b. 1939)
 * January 12
 * Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
 * Jaime Rosenthal, Honduran politician (b. 1936)
 * January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
 * January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
 * January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
 * January 17
 * Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1917)
 * Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (b. 1930)
 * Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
 * January 19
 * Nathan Glazer, American sociologist (b. 1923)
 * Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (b. 1924)
 * January 20
 * Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (b. 1922)
 * Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (b. 1944)
 * January 21
 * Kaye Ballard, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (b. 1933)
 * Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (b. 1990)
 * Harris Wofford, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1926)
 * January 23
 * Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
 * Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
 * January 24
 * Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
 * Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American naval aviator (b. 1953)
 * January 25
 * Florence Knoll, American architect and furniture designer (b. 1917)
 * Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (b. 1932)
 * Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b. 1925)
 * January 26
 * Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (b. 1930)
 * Michel Legrand, French composer (b. 1932)
 * January 27 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (b. 1929)
 * January 28
 * Humberto Akʼabal, Guatemalan K'iche' Maya poet (b. 1952)
 * Susan Hiller, American artist (b. 1940)
 * January 29
 * George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
 * James Ingram, American R&B musician (b. 1952)
 * January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)

February



 * February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
 * February 3
 * Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Detsl, Russian musician (b. 1983)
 * Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966)
 * February 4
 * Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963)
 * Leonie Ossowski, German writer (b. 1925)
 * Izzy Young, American-Swedish folklorist and author (b. 1928)
 * February 6
 * Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927)
 * Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (b. 1924)
 * February 7
 * John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926)
 * Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936)
 * Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1930)
 * Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1935)
 * February 8 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer (b. 1917)
 * February 9
 * Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b. 1968)
 * Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (b. 1988)
 * Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator (b. 1931)
 * Patricia Nell Warren, American novelist, poet, and journalist (b. 1936)
 * February 10
 * Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943)
 * Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1945)
 * February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (b. 1925)
 * February 12
 * Betty Ballantine, British-born American book publisher (b. 1919)
 * Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1937)
 * Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922)
 * Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (b. 1942)
 * February 13 – Idriz Ajeti, Kosovar Albanologist (b. 1917)
 * February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (b. 1956)
 * February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
 * February 16
 * Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
 * Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian and dissident (b. 1917)
 * February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian folk singer (b. 1951)
 * February 18
 * Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist (b. 1931)
 * Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
 * Bob Van Der Veken, Belgian actor (b. 1928)
 * Peter Wells, New Zealand writer and filmmaker (b. 1950)
 * February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
 * February 20 – Dominick Argento, American composer (b. 1927)
 * February 21
 * Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)
 * Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 * Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (b. 1917)
 * February 22
 * Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
 * Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925)
 * February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
 * February 24
 * Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
 * Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b. 1922)
 * February 25 – Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
 * February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
 * February 27 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
 * February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1929)

March





 * March 1
 * Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1930)
 * Kumar Bhattacharyya, British-Indian engineer, educator, and government advisor (b. 1940)
 * Eusebio Pedroza, Panamanian boxer (b. 1956)
 * Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (b. 1922)
 * March 2
 * Yannis Behrakis, Greek photojournalist (b. 1960)
 * Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
 * March 4
 * King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
 * Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (b. 1934)
 * Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (b. 1969)
 * Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
 * Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 * Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
 * Sidney Verba, American political scientist, librarian, and library administrator (b. 1932)
 * March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
 * March 6
 * José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish politician and diplomat (b. 1940)
 * Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
 * March 7
 * Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1949)
 * Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
 * March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
 * March 9
 * Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b. 1916)
 * Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1922)
 * March 10
 * İrsen Küçük, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
 * Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
 * Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972)
 * Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952)
 * March 11 – Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
 * March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
 * March 14
 * Birch Bayh, American politician (b. 1928)
 * Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
 * Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
 * March 15
 * W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
 * Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 3rd Head of State of Mauritania (b. 1943)
 * March 16
 * Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b. 1937)
 * Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (b. 1939)
 * Alan Krueger, American economist (b. 1960)
 * March 17
 * Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
 * Tunku Puan Zanariah, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong (b. 1940)
 * March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker (b. 1925)
 * March 20
 * Donald Kalpokas, 2nd Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1943)
 * Mary Warnock, British philosopher (b. 1924)
 * March 22
 * Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
 * Scott Walker, American-born British singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 * March 23
 * Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 * Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (b. 1926)
 * March 24
 * Nancy Gates, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Fred Malek, American business executive, political advisor and philanthropist (b. 1936)
 * March 27
 * Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 * Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
 * March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French filmmaker (b. 1928)
 * March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985)

April

 * April 1
 * Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
 * Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 * April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
 * April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * April 5
 * Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)
 * Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
 * Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 * April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
 * April 7
 * Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
 * Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
 * April 9
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (b. 1940)
 * Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (b. 1926)
 * April 10
 * Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 * Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician and First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
 * April 12
 * Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
 * Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
 * April 13
 * Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (b. 1942)
 * Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
 * Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
 * Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
 * Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b. 1929)
 * April 14
 * Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
 * Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
 * Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
 * April 16 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
 * April 17 – Alan García, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
 * April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
 * April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
 * April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
 * April 21 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
 * April 22
 * Lê Đức Anh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
 * Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
 * David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b. 1939)
 * April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
 * April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
 * April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
 * April 27 – Negasso Gidada, Ethiopian politician, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
 * April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1968)
 * April 29
 * Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
 * Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)
 * April 30
 * Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
 * Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
 * Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)

May



 * May 2
 * Red Kelly, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1927)
 * Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
 * May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
 * May 5 – Norma Miller, American dancer, actress and author (b. 1919)
 * May 6
 * John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
 * Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1933)
 * May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher (b. 1928)
 * May 8
 * Sprent Dabwido, 13th President of Nauru (b. 1972)
 * Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian film composer (b. 1934)
 * May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
 * May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
 * May 11
 * Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
 * Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
 * May 12
 * Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
 * Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b. 1920)
 * May 13
 * Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
 * Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 * May 14
 * Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * Grumpy Cat, American Internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
 * Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
 * May 16
 * Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)
 * Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (b. 1979)
 * I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
 * May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
 * May 19
 * Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
 * Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (b. 1936)
 * May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
 * May 21 – Glauco Sansovini, Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1938)
 * May 22
 * Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator (b. 1923)
 * Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science popularizer (b. 1936)
 * Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (b. 1930)
 * May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 * May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
 * May 26
 * Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
 * Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
 * May 27
 * Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
 * Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer (b. 1990)
 * May 28
 * Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1940)
 * Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1930)
 * May 30 – Leon Redbone, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1949)
 * May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

June

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

July





 * July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (b. 1924)
 * July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (b. 1929)
 * July 4
 * Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
 * Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
 * Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (b. 1930)
 * July 6 – João Gilberto, Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
 * July 7 – Artur Brauner, German film director (b. 1918)
 * July 9
 * Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
 * Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
 * Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
 * July 10 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
 * July 12
 * Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
 * Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
 * July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
 * July 14
 * Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
 * Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
 * July 16
 * Johnny Clegg, South African musician and anthropologist (b. 1953)
 * John Paul Stevens, American judge and lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1920)
 * July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
 * July 18
 * David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
 * July 19
 * Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (b. 1944)
 * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
 * César Pelli, Argentine architect (b. 1926)
 * July 20
 * Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
 * Ilaria Occhini, Italian actress (b. 1934)
 * July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
 * July 22
 * Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
 * Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
 * July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
 * July 26
 * Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
 * Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
 * July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
 * July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
 * July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
 * July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)

August



 * August 1
 * Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
 * D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
 * Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (b. 1943)
 * August 3
 * Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (b. 1932)
 * Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (b. 1929)
 * Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
 * August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
 * August 5 – Toni Morrison, American Nobel writer (b. 1931)
 * August 6
 * Alejandro Serrano, Ecuadorian politician, 46th Vice President of Ecuador (b. 1933)
 * Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
 * August 7 – Kary Mullis, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1944)
 * August 8
 * Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
 * Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
 * August 9
 * Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1938)
 * Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-born Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
 * August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
 * August 11
 * Walter Martínez, Honduran footballer (b. 1982)
 * Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1931)
 * August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer (b. 1956)
 * August 13 – Cecilia Caballero Blanco, Colombian socialite, 24th First Lady of Colombia (b. 1913)
 * August 16
 * Princess Christina of the Netherlands (b. 1947)
 * Peter Fonda, American actor (b. 1940)
 * Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1942)
 * José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
 * Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (b. 1933)
 * August 17 – Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
 * August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
 * August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
 * August 22
 * Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
 * Tim Fischer, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1946)
 * August 23
 * David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (b. 1940)
 * Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (b. 1939)
 * August 24
 * Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney (b. 1952)
 * Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine ski racer (b. 1963)
 * August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
 * August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
 * August 27
 * Jessi Combs, American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator (b. 1980)
 * Dawda Jawara, 2nd Prime Minister of Gambia and 1st President of Gambia (b. 1924)
 * August 28
 * Michel Aumont, French actor (b. 1936)
 * Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (b. 1947)
 * August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
 * August 30
 * Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1941)
 * Valerie Harper, American actress (b. 1939)
 * August 31
 * Anthoine Hubert, French racing driver (b. 1996)
 * Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (b. 1930)

September



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

October



 * October 1
 * Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (b. 1939)
 * Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
 * October 2
 * Giya Kancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (b. 1935)
 * Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
 * October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
 * October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
 * October 6
 * Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
 * Martin Lauer, German athlete (b. 1937)
 * Rip Taylor, American comedian and actor (b. 1931)
 * October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
 * October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
 * October 11
 * Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
 * Alexei Leonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 * October 12
 * Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (b. 1962)
 * Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (b. 1984)
 * Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (b. 1936)
 * October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
 * October 14
 * Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
 * Sulli, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1994)
 * October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
 * October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
 * October 17
 * Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1920)
 * Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (b. 1924)
 * October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
 * October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)

Nobel Prizes

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

Overviews

 * 2019 national electoral calendar
 * 2019 United States elections

Specific events and situations

 * 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
 * Brexit
 * Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
 * 2019 Prorogation of United Kingdom Parliament
 * 2019 Italian government crisis
 * Conte II Cabinet

Gameplay
Two family teams of five contestants (reduced to four contestants for the 1994-95 season) each compete to win cash and prizes. The original version of the show began with the families being introduced, seated opposite each other as if posing for family portraits, after which the host interviewed them.

Unlike with most other game shows, there is no minimum age necessary to participate in Family Feud, although every family must have at least one person who is 18 years or older. Each round begins with a "face-off" question that serves as a toss-up between two opposing contestants. The host asks a survey question that was previously posed to a group of 100 people, e.g. 100 single women or men, etc. (e.g., "This was asked to 100 single men. Name the hour that you get up on Sunday mornings."). A certain number of answers are concealed on the board, ranked by popularity of the survey's responses. Only answers said by at least two people can appear on the board. The first contestant to buzz-in gives an answer; if it is the most popular, his/her family immediately wins the face-off. Otherwise, the opponent responds and the family member providing the higher-ranked answer wins. Ties are broken in favor of the contestant who buzzes-in first. If neither contestant's answer is on the board, the other eight contestants have a chance to respond, one at a time from alternating sides, until an answer is revealed. The family that wins the face-off may choose to play the question or pass control to their opponents (except on the Combs version, when the family who won the face-off automatically gained control of the question).

The family with control of the question then tries to win the round by guessing all of the remaining concealed answers, with each member giving one answer in sequence. Giving an answer not on the board, or failing to respond within the allotted time, earns one strike. If the family earns three strikes, their opponents are given one chance to "steal" the points for the round by guessing any remaining concealed answer; failing to do so awards the points back to the family that originally had control. If the opponents are given the opportunity to "steal" the points, then only their team's captain is required to answer the question (except on the Combs version, where all team members were required to answer.) However, the team's captain has the final say as to what answer is given. Any remaining concealed answers on the board that were not guessed are then revealed.

While a family has control of a question, the members are not allowed to discuss possible answers with one another; each person must respond individually. However, the opposing family may confer in preparation for an attempt to steal, and their captain must respond for them when such an attempt is made.

Answers are worth one point for every person in the 100-member survey who gave them. The winning family in each round scores the total points for all revealed answers to that question, including those given during the face-off but excluding the one used to steal (if applicable). The number of answers on the board decreases from round to round, and as the game progresses, certain rounds are played for double or triple point value. The first family to score 300 points wins the game and advances to the Fast Money bonus round for a chance to win a cash bonus. Until 1992, both teams received $1 per point scored.

Prior to 1999, the game continued as normal until one family reached the necessary total to win. Since then, if neither team reaches the goal after four rounds (or, from 1999 to 2002, if both teams were tied with the same score after the final round), one last question is played for triple value with only the #1 answer displayed.

The goal of 300 points has been in place in the rules of almost every version of the show. However, when the program premiered in 1976, the goal was 200 points. For the 1984–85 season of both the daytime and syndicated program, the goal was increased to 400 points. For several seasons after the 1999 return to syndication, there was no specific point goal. Instead, four rounds were played, with the last for triple points and only one strike. The family with the most points after the fourth round won the game.

Fast Money
Two members of the winning family play Fast Money for a chance to win a cash bonus. One contestant is onstage with the host, while the other is sequestered backstage with headphones so that he/she cannot see or hear the first portion of the round. The first contestant is asked five rapid-fire survey questions and has a set time limit in which to answer them (originally 15 seconds, extended to 20 in 1994). The clock begins to run only after the first question is asked, and the first contestant may pass on a question and return to it after all five have been asked, if time remains.

After the first contestant has either answered all five questions or run out of time, the board is cleared except for the total score, and the second contestant is then brought out to answer the same five questions. The same rules are followed, but the time limit is extended by five seconds (originally 20, then extended to 25); in addition, if the second contestant duplicates an answer given by the first, a buzzer sounds and he/she must give another answer. If the two contestants reach a combined total of 200 points or more, the family wins the bonus. If not, they are given $5 per point scored as a consolation prize.

The grand prize for winning Fast Money has varied. When the program aired in daytime, families played for $5,000. The grand prize for syndicated episodes was $10,000 for much of its existence. In 2001, the prize was doubled to $20,000 at the request of then-host Louie Anderson, where it has remained since.

Returning champions
When Family Feud premiered on ABC, network rules dictated how much a family could win. Once any family reached $25,000, they were retired as champions. The accompanying syndicated series that premiered in 1977 featured two new families each episode because of tape bicycling (a practice then common in syndicated television).

The CBS daytime and syndicated versions which began airing in 1988 also featured returning champions, who could appear for a maximum of five days. For a brief period in the 1994–95 season which aired in syndication, there were no returning champions. For these episodes, two new families competed in this first half of each episode. The second half featured former champion families who appeared on Family Feud between 1977 and 1985, with the winner of the first half of the show playing one of these families in the second half.

From 1999 to 2002, two new families appeared on each episode. The returning champions rule was reinstated with the same five-day limit starting with the 2002–03 season. Starting with the 2009–10 season, a family that wins five matches also wins a new car.

Bullseye game
In June 1992, the CBS daytime edition of Feud expanded from 30 to 60 minutes and became known as Family Feud Challenge. As part of the change, a new round was added at the start of each game called "Bullseye". This round determined the potential Fast Money stake for each team. Each team was given a starting value for their bank and attempted to come up with the top answer to a survey question to add to it. The Bullseye round was added to the syndicated edition in September 1992.

The first two members of each family appeared at the face-off podium and were asked a question to which only the number-one answer was available. Giving the top answer added the value for that question to the family's bank. The process then repeated with the four remaining members from each family. On the first half of the daytime version, families were staked with $2,500. The first question was worth $500, with each succeeding question worth $500 more than the previous, with the final question worth $2,500. This allowed for a potential maximum bank of $10,000. For the second half of the daytime version, and also on the syndicated version, all values were doubled, making the maximum potential bank $20,000. The team that eventually won the game played for their bank in Fast Money.

When Richard Dawson returned as host of the program in 1994, the round's name was changed to the "Bankroll" round. Although the goal remained of giving only the number-one answer, the format was modified to three questions from five, with only one member of each family participating for all three questions. The initial stake for each family remained the same ($2,500 in the first half of the hour and $5,000 in the second). However, the value for each question was $500, $1,500 and $2,500 in the first half, with values doubling for the second half. This meant a potential maximum bank of $7,000 in the first half and $14,000 in the second.

The Bullseye round temporarily returned during the 2009–10 season. It was played similarly as the format used from 1992 to 1994 on the syndicated version, with five questions worth from $1,000 to $5,000. However, each family was given a $15,000 starting stake, which meant a potential maximum of a $30,000 bank.

Hosts and announcers
When Family Feud was conceived in 1976, Richard Dawson (then a panelist regular on the Goodson–Todman game show Match Game) had a standing agreement with Mark Goodson that when the next Goodson–Todman game show was produced, Dawson would be given an audition to host it. Dawson had read in trade publications that a pilot for a new show named Family Feud was in the works, and it was to be hosted by William Shatner (although since they were involved in the run-throughs, Geoff Edwards, and Jack Narz, who reputedly was Goodson's initial choice to host, were under consideration). Incensed, Dawson sent his agent to Goodson, who threatened an un-funny, silent, and bland Dawson on future Match Game episodes if Dawson was not given an audition for Feud. Goodson gave in, and Dawson ultimately won the hosting job. Thus, the original ABC and first syndicated versions of Family Feud were hosted by Dawson. As writer David Marc put it, Dawson's on-air personality "fell somewhere between the brainless sincerity of Wink Martindale and the raunchy cynicism of Chuck Barris". Dawson showed himself to have insistent affections for all of the female members of each family that competed on the show, regardless of age. Writers Tim Brooks, Jon Ellowitz, and Earle F. Marsh owed Family Feud's popularity to Dawson's "glib familiarity" (he had previously played Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes) and "ready wit" (from his tenure as a panelist on Match Game). The show's original announcer was Gene Wood, with Johnny Gilbert and Rod Roddy serving as occasional substitutes.

In 1988, Ray Combs took over Dawson's role as host on CBS and in syndication with Wood returning as announcer and Roddy, Art James, and Charlie O'Donnell serving in that role when Wood was not available. Combs hosted the program until the daytime version's cancellation in 1993 and the syndicated version until the end of the 1993–94 season. Dawson returned to the show at the request of Mark Goodson Productions for the 1994–95 season.

When Feud returned to syndication in 1999, it was initially hosted by Louie Anderson, with Burton Richardson as the new announcer. Richard Karn was selected to take over for Anderson when season four premiered in 2002, and when season eight premiered in 2006, Karn was replaced by John O'Hurley. In 2010, both O'Hurley and Richardson departed from the show; O'Hurley later stated that he left because he was resistant toward the show's decision to emphasize ribald humor and wanted to keep the show family-friendly. Comedian Steve Harvey was named the new host for season twelve, and announcements were made using a pre-recorded track of former 'N Sync member Joey Fatone's voice until 2015, when Rubin Ervin, who has been a member of the production staff as the warmup man for the audience since Harvey took over, became the announcer (Richardson still announces for Celebrity Family Feud).

Production
The first four versions of the show were directed by Paul Alter and produced by Howard Felsher and Cathy Dawson. For the 1988 versions, Gary Dawson worked with the show as a third producer, and Alter was joined by two other directors, Marc Breslow and Andy Felsher. The 1999 version's main staff include executive producer Gabrielle Johnston, co-executive producers Kristin Bjorklund, Brian Hawley and Sara Dansby, and director Ken Fuchs; Johnston and Bjorklund previously worked as associate producers of the 1980s version. The show's classic theme tune was written by an uncredited Walt Levinsky for Score Productions. The themes used from 1999 to 2008 were written by John Lewis Parker. The production rights to the show were originally owned by the production company Goodson shared with his partner Bill Todman, but were sold to their current holder, Fremantle, when it acquired all of Goodson and Todman's works in 2002.

1976–85
Mark Goodson created Family Feud during the increasing popularity of his earlier game show, Match Game, which set daytime ratings records in 1976, and on which Dawson was appearing on as one of its most popular panelists. Match Game aired on CBS, and by 1976, CBS vice president Fred Silverman, who had originally commissioned Match Game, had moved to a new position as president of ABC. The show premiered on ABC's daytime lineup at 1:30 PM (ET)/12:30 PM (CT/MT/PT) on July 12, 1976, and although it was not an immediate hit, before long it became a ratings winner and eventually surpassed Match Game to become the highest-rated game show on daytime TV.

Due to the expansion of All My Children to one hour in April 1977, the show was moved to 11:30/10:30 AM, as the second part of an hour that had daytime reruns of Happy Days (later Laverne & Shirley) as its lead-in. When $20,000 Pyramid was cancelled in June 1980, it moved a half-hour back to 12 noon/11:00 AM. It remained the most popular daytime game show until Merv Griffin's game show Wheel of Fortune surpassed it in 1984. From 1978 until 1984, ABC periodically broadcast hour-long primetime "All-Star Specials", in which celebrity casts from various primetime lineup TV series competed instead of ordinary families. The popularity of the program inspired Goodson to consider producing a nighttime edition, which launched in syndication on September 19, 1977. Like many other game shows at the time, the nighttime Feud aired once a week; it expanded to twice a week in January 1979, and finally to five nights a week (Monday through Friday) in the fall of 1980. However, the viewing habits of both daytime and syndicated audiences were changing. When Griffin launched Wheels syndicated version, starring Pat Sajak and Vanna White, in 1983, that show climbed the ratings to the point where it unseated Feud as the highest-rated syndicated show; the syndicated premiere of Wheels sister show Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host also siphoned ratings from Feud with its early success. With declining ratings, and as part of a scheduling reshuffle with two of ABC's half-hour soaps, the show moved back to the 11:30/10:30 timeslot in October 1984, as the second part of a one-hour game show block with Trivia Trap (later All-Star Blitz) as its lead in, hoping to make a dent in the ratings of The Price Is Right.

Despite the ratings decline, there was some interest in keeping the show in production. In a 2010 interview, Dawson recalled a meeting with executives from Viacom Enterprises about keeping the show for one more season. Dawson was growing tired of the grueling taping schedule and initially wanted to stop altogether. After discussing the situation with ABC and Viacom, Dawson said that he would return for a final syndicated season of thirty-nine weeks of episodes but would not continue doing the daytime series. After this, Dawson did not hear from Viacom for approximately a week and once they contacted him again, Dawson was told that Viacom was no longer interested in continuing the syndicated Feud beyond the 1984–85 season. Viacom made this official in January 1985 ahead of that year's NATPE convention, and within a few weeks, ABC decided that it too would not renew Feud for the 1985–86 season. The daytime version came to an end on June 14, 1985. The syndicated version aired its last new episode on May 17, 1985.

1988–95
Family Feud moved to CBS with Ray Combs hosting on July 4, 1988 at 10:00 AM (ET)/9:00 AM (CT/MT/PT), replacing The $25,000 Pyramid (which had aired continuously in that time slot since September 1982, except between January and April 1988, when Blackout took its place; CBS began development on Family Feud shortly after Blackout was canceled). Like its predecessor, this version also had an accompanying syndicated edition which launched in September of that year. It moved to 10:30/9:30 in January 1991 to make room for a short-lived talk show starring Barbara DeAngelis. At that timeslot, it replaced the daytime Wheel of Fortune, which moved back to NBC. In June 1992, the network version expanded from its original half-hour format to a full hour, and was retitled The Family Feud Challenge; this new format featured three families per episode, which included two new families competing in the first half-hour for the right to play the returning champions in the second half. The Family Feud Challenge aired its final new episode on March 26, 1993, with reruns airing until September 10. The syndicated Feud, meanwhile, remained in production and entered its sixth season in the fall of 1993.

At this point in its run, the syndicated Feud had been dealing with a consistent ratings downturn for several years. Although the series was initially able to secure timeslots in desirable hours such as the Prime Time Access hour, stations quickly found that other programming, such as tabloid news magazine programs such as A Current Affair, Inside Edition and Hard Copy tended to draw better ratings and thus sought those shows to replace Feud. Some stations dropped the syndicated Feud outright, while others relocated it to lower-rated timeslots such as overnights. The slide eventually resulted in the ratings bottoming out in 1992-93.

Distributor All American Television informed Mark Goodson Productions that unless there was an uptick in the ratings or changes made to the program, they would cease distributing Family Feud at the end of the 1993-94 season. The responsibility for this was all in the hands of Jonathan Goodson, who had taken over his father's company when Mark Goodson died in 1992. One of the options considered was a host change, with the prevailing thought being that the position would be offered to the original host of the program, Richard Dawson.

This ran counter to his father's original decision, as Mark Goodson was loyal to Combs from the moment he hired him and had refused to even consider Dawson due to the trouble he caused for the production staff of the original series. In fact, many members of the original production staff were also working on the revival series and held lingering bad feelings toward Dawson. However, Jonathan Goodson did not have the ties to Combs that his father did, and felt that the change had to at least be considered in order to save the production.

After a rigorous staff meeting, Goodson offered Dawson a contract to return as host of the syndicated Feud, and the semi-retired Dawson agreed to return. Combs was able to finish out the remainder of the season, and, after his final episode that was filmed in early 1994, he signed off and left the studio without even saying goodbye to anybody.

A revamped Family Feud returned for a seventh season in September 1994, with Dawson returning as the host. The show expanded from thirty to sixty minutes, reinstated the Family Feud Challenge format, and did various other things to try to improve the ratings of the show such as modernizing the set, feature families that had previously been champions on the original Feud, and have more themed weeks. Although Dawson did bring a brief ratings surge when he came back, the show could not sustain it long term, and Feud came to a conclusion at the end of the season. Its final new episode aired on May 26, 1995, with reruns airing until September 8. The show ceased production for nearly four years after failing to come to an agreement with various companies. Furthermore, former host Ray Combs committed suicide on June 2, 1996.

1999–present
Family Feud returned in syndication on September 20, 1999, with comedian Louie Anderson as the next host. Anderson hosted the show for nearly three years until his release in 2002. After Anderson's release, Richard Karn took over the show. The format was changed to reintroduce returning champions, allowing them to appear for up to five days. However, even after Karn's takeover, Anderson-hosted episodes continued in reruns that aired on PAX TV/Ion Television. Karn hosted the show for four years, and then, it was John O'Hurley at the helm. The show's Nielsen ratings were at 1.5, putting it in danger of cancellation once again (as countless affiliates that carried the show from 1999-2010 aired in daytime, graveyard or low-rated time slots). O'Hurley would host the show for four years, and was succeeded by Steve Harvey. With Harvey at the helm, ratings increased by as much as 40%, and within two short years, the show was rated at 4.0, and had become the fifth most popular syndicated program. Fox News' Paulette Cohn argued that Harvey's "relatability," or "understanding of what the people at home want to know," is what saved the show from cancellation; Harvey himself debated, "If someone said an answer that was so ridiculous, I knew that the people at home behind the camera had to be going, 'What did they just say?' … They gave this answer that doesn't have a shot in hell of being up there. The fact that I recognize that, that's comedic genius to me. I think that's [what made] the difference."

Since Harvey became host, Family Feud has regularly ranked among the top 10 highest-rated programs in all of daytime television programming and third among game shows (behind Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!); in February 2014, the show achieved a 6.0 share in the Nielsen ratings, with approximately 8.8 million viewers. In June 2015, Family Feud eclipsed Wheel of Fortune as the most-watched syndicated game show on television. Under Harvey, the show has had better syndication clearances and better timeslots. It has been airing in early fringe and prime access slots nationwide.

Reruns of the Dawson, Combs, Anderson and Karn hosted episodes have been included among Buzzr's acquisitions since its launch on June 1, 2015. In 2019, reruns of the Karn hosted episodes started airing on Up TV during the morning hours. On June 13, 2016, American episodes hosted by Harvey began airing on the UK digital terrestrial and satellite channel Challenge.

Production of Family Feud was shifted from Universal Orlando to Harvey's hometown of Atlanta in 2011, first at the Atlanta Civic Center and later at the Georgia World Congress Center. Harvey was also originating a syndicated radio show from Atlanta, and the state of Georgia also issued tax credits for the production. In 2017, production moved to Los Angeles Center Studios (later moved again to Universal Studios Hollywood) in Los Angeles to accommodate Harvey's new syndicated talk show Steve, returning production of the regular series back to Los Angeles for the first time since 2010.

Reception
Family Feud won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show in 1977 and 2019, Outstanding Directing for a Game Show and the show has three times won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host, once with Dawson in 1978 and twice with Harvey in 2014 and 2017. Feud ranked number 3 on Game Show Network (GSN)'s 2006 list of the 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time, and also on TV Guide's 2013 list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.

Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting, founders of the website Television Without Pity, wrote that they hated the 1999 syndicated version, saying "Give us classic Feud every time", citing both Dawson and Combs as hosts. Additionally, they called Anderson an "alleged sexual harasser and full-time sphere".

In the Steve Harvey era, the show has become notorious for questions and responses that are sexual in nature, with content frequently referring to certain anatomy or acts of intercourse. This type of material has drawn criticism from viewers, including former NCIS actress Pauley Perrette, who in 2018 sent a series of tweets to Family Feud producers questioning why the show had to be "so filthy." Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, a politically-conservative content analysis organization, suggested that the responses are in line with sexual content becoming more commonplace on television.

The popularity of Family Feud in the United States has led it to become a worldwide franchise, with over 50 adaptations outside the United States. Countries that have aired their own versions of the show include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, among others.

Merchandise
Since the show's premiere in 1976, many home versions of Family Feud have been released in various formats. Milton Bradley, Pressman Games, and Endless Games have all released traditional board games based on the show, while Imagination Entertainment released the program in a DVD game format.

The game has been released in other formats by multiple companies; Coleco Adam released the first computer version of the show in 1983, and Sharedata followed in 1987 with versions for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple II computers. GameTek released versions for Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Genesis, 3DO, and PC (on CD-ROM) between 1990 and 1995. Hasbro Interactive released a version in 2000 for the PC and PlayStation. In 2006, versions were released for PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and PC. Seattle-based Mobliss Inc. also released a mobile version of Family Feud that was available on Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular. Glu Mobile later released a newer mobile version of Family Feud for other carriers.

Most recently, in conjunction with Ludia, Ubisoft has video games for multiple platforms. The first of these was entitled Family Feud: 2010 Edition and was released for the Wii, Nintendo DS, and PC in September 2009. Ubisoft then released Family Feud Decades the next year, which featured sets and survey questions from television versions of all four decades the show has been on air. A third game, entitled Family Feud: 2012 Edition was released for the Wii and Xbox 360 in 2011.

In addition to the home games, a DVD set titled All-Star Family Feud starring Richard Dawson was released on January 8, 2008 by BCI Eclipse LLC Home Entertainment (under license from Fremantle USA) and featured a total of 43 segments taken from 21 special celebrity episodes from the original ABC/syndicated versions on its four discs, uncut and remastered from original 2” videotapes for optimal video presentation and sound quality. It was re-issued as The Best of All-Star Family Feud on February 2, 2010.

Plot
While in the park, Ben shows Emma a brand new toy remote-controlled helicopter he got. While showing her how it works, Barney arrives. Shortly after, Ben's toy helicopter gets out of control and it breaks. Ben claims that there is nothing more fun than flying his toy helicopter. While thinking of fun things to do, Barney brings up the time they had a Sports Day in the park ("A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure"). Then they talk about their favorite games/toys they like to play, and Barney says that his favorite toy to play with is a ball, and tells the story of how many of the balls disappeared in the park ("To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure"). In the end, Ben finds out there are more fun things to do than play with his toy helicopter.

New Content Cast

 * Barney (Voice: Dean Wendt, Costume: Carey Stinson)
 * Ben (Austin Lux)
 * Emma (Deborah Cole)

Series Cast

 * Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jennifer Kendall)
 * BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Kyle Nelson)
 * Riff (Voice: Michaela Dietz, Costume: Jeff Ayers)
 * Marcos (Jeremy Becerra)
 * Taylor (Kacie Lynch)
 * Myra (Lexi Ten Napel)
 * Tracy (Victoria Lennox)
 * Joshua (Jaren Lewison)
 * Jill (Mikayla Abdalla)
 * Jill's Mother﻿ (Jacqueline Berner)
 * Fetch the Dog (Roo)
 * Sharon the Dog Owner (Carrie Brown)

Song List

 * 1) Barney Theme Song
 * 2) The Having Fun Song (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 3) Let's Go (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 4) Exercise is Good for You (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 5) Games (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 6) Way to Count (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 7) Riding on a Bike (Scene Taken from: "Making a Move!")
 * 8) You Can Count on Me (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 9) The Baby Bop Hop (Scene Taken from: "A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure")
 * 10) A Bright New Day (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 11) Let's Go (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 12) When You Have a Ball (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 13) People Helping Other People (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 14) The Five Senses Song (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 15) Thinkety Think (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 16) What a Big Mistake! (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 17) Best of Friends (Scene Taken from: "To Catch a Thief: A Mystery Adventure")
 * 18) I Love You

Trivia

 * This video marked:
 * Another time Barney isn't seen coming to life. Instead, he is seen arriving at the park.
 * Production for this video took place in 2009.
 * The Season 10 version of the Barney Theme Song was used in this video, since the sound effects can be heard of that particular version.