| November 19th |
| 1700 | Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist, was born. |
| 1834 | Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist, was born. |
| 1887 | James B. Sumner, American chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was born. |
| 1898 | Arthur R. von Hippel, a German-born physicist, was born. |