On This Day - July 19

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King Friday $77,930,758 $543,638,043
2008 The Dark Knight Saturday $47,650,240 $536,625,724
2024 Twisters Friday $32,139,880 $267,762,265
2025 Superman Saturday $23,026,404 $354,184,465
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Sunday $21,780,931 $302,854,063
2013 The Conjuring Friday $16,956,117 $137,400,141
2003 Bad Boys II Saturday $16,203,568 $138,540,870
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II Tuesday $15,388,166 $382,088,758
2015 Ant-Man Sunday $15,111,351 $180,202,163
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Saturday $14,774,045 $208,545,589

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King Friday $77,930,758 $543,638,043
2024 Twisters Friday $32,139,880 $267,762,265
2002 Stuart Little 2 Friday $5,314,000 $64,956,806
2002 K-19: The Widowmaker Friday $4,023,000 $35,168,966
2000 The In Crowd Wednesday $662,495 $5,217,498
2013 Girl Most Likely Friday $225,750 $1,378,591
2024 Oddity Friday $194,344 $1,200,477
2023 Terrifier Wednesday $137,520 $339,946
2024 Widow Clicquot Friday $69,264 $1,023,984
2023 Go West Wednesday $35,118 $340,017

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was July 19.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King $191,770,759 $543,638,043
2008 The Dark Knight $158,411,483 $536,625,724
2024 Twisters $81,251,415 $267,762,265
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $77,835,727 $302,854,063
2025 Superman $58,450,094 $354,184,465
2015 Ant-Man $57,225,526 $180,202,163
2015 Minions $49,274,730 $336,045,770
2003 Bad Boys II $46,522,560 $138,540,870
2013 The Conjuring $41,855,326 $137,400,141
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $36,254,310 $208,545,589

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Barbara Bedford (1903, died on October 25, 1981 at the age of 78), Patricia Medina (1919, died on April 28, 2012 at the age of 92), Pat Hingle (1924, died on January 3, 2009 at the age of 84), Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924, died on January 30, 2014 at the age of 89), Luigi Pistilli (1929, died on April 21, 1996 at the age of 66), Richard Jordan (1937, turned 88 this year), Sergio Martino (1938, turned 87 this year), Dennis Cole (1940, died on November 15, 2009 at the age of 69), Charles Scalies (1940, died on May 1, 2025 at the age of 84), Tim McIntire (1944, died on April 15, 1986 at the age of 41), George Dzundza (1945, turned 80 this year), Brian May (1947, turned 78 this year), Richard Cordery (1950, turned 75 this year), Tom McLoughlin (1950, turned 75 this year), Danny Hicks (1951, died on June 30, 2020 at the age of 68), Abel Ferrara (1951, turned 74 this year), Daniel Zacapa (1951, turned 74 this year), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955, turned 70 this year), Peter Barton (1956, turned 69 this year), Norman Howell (1957, turned 68 this year), Mark Holton (1958, turned 67 this year), Juan Jose Campanella (1959, turned 66 this year), Atom Egoyan (1960, turned 65 this year), Campbell Scott (1961, turned 64 this year), Robbi Morgan (1961, turned 64 this year), Lisa Lampanelli (1961, turned 64 this year), Hideo Nakata (1961, turned 64 this year), Anthony Edwards (1962, turned 63 this year), Peter Dobson (1964, turned 61 this year), Clea Lewis (1965, turned 60 this year), Nancy Carell (1966, turned 59 this year), William Houston (1968, turned 57 this year), Jim Norton (1968, turned 57 this year), Matthew Libatique (1968, turned 57 this year), Bodhi Elfman (1969, turned 56 this year), Camille Cooper (1969, turned 56 this year), Andrew Kavovit (1971, turned 54 this year), Said Taghmaoui (1973, turned 52 this year), Nathalie Boltt (1973, turned 52 this year), Ramin Djawadi (1974, turned 51 this year), Reuben Langdon (1975, turned 50 this year), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976, turned 49 this year), Vinessa Shaw (1976, turned 49 this year), Erin Cummings (1977, turned 48 this year), Darron Meyer (1977, turned 48 this year), Chiara Zanni (1978, turned 47 this year), Ginifer King (1978, turned 47 this year), David Sakurai (1979, turned 46 this year), Mark Webber (1980, turned 45 this year), Josh Fadem (1980, turned 45 this year), Chris Sullivan (1980, turned 45 this year), Angela Trimbur (1981, turned 44 this year), Adam Nee (1981, turned 44 this year), Jared Padalecki (1982, turned 43 this year), Tonya Glanz (1982, turned 43 this year), Ryan Dorsey (1983, turned 42 this year), Trai Byers (1983, turned 42 this year), Kaitlin Doubleday (1984, turned 41 this year), Andrea Libman (1984, turned 41 this year), Zhu Zhu (1984, turned 41 this year), Cherami Leigh (1988, turned 37 this year), Shane Dawson (1988, turned 37 this year), Steven Anthony Lawrence (1990, turned 35 this year), Jeannie Tirado (1990, turned 35 this year), Zachary David Cope (1994, turned 31 this year), Cheyenne Haynes (1995, turned 30 this year), Hale Lytle (2001, turned 24 this year)

Died on this day in history: Joe Flynn (1974, at the age of 49), Edward Bunker (2005, at the age of 71), Jack Warden (2006, at the age of 85), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), Douglas S. Cook (2015, at the age of 86), Garry Marshall (2016, at the age of 81), Michael Howells (2018, at the age of 61), Jon Schnepp (2018, at the age of 51), Jeremy Kemp (2019, at the age of 84), Rutger Hauer (2019, at the age of 75)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.