August 19
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August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining after August 19 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 232 – Marcus Aurelius Robus, Roman Emperor (d. 282).
- 1596 – Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1662).
- 1631 – John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700).
- 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761).
- 1743 – Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793).
- 1808 – James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer (d. 1890).
- 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (d. 1894).
- 1871 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane (d. 1948).
- 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944).
- 1883 – Coco Chanel, French designer (d. 1971).
- 1883 – Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist (d. 1942).
- 1883 – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Swedish politician (d. 1954).
- 1883 – Jose Mendes Cabecadas, Portuguese politician (d. 1965).
- 1897 – Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (d. 1990).
- 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976).
- 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971).
- 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971).
- 1914 – Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005).
- 1918 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (d. 1999).
- 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991).
- 1930 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009).
- 1931 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003).
- 1935 – Story Musgrave, American astronaut.
- 1942 – Fred Thompson, American actor and politician.
- 1946 – Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.
- 1948 – Tipper Gore, former Wife of the Vice President of the United States.
- 1948 – Tommy Soderberg, Swedish football coach.
- 1951 – John Deacon, British musician.
- 1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor.
- 1957 – Cesare Prandelli, Italian footballer and coach.
- 1963 – Joey Tempest, Swedish singer.
- 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress.
- 1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor.
- 1969 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011).
- 1970 – Fat Joe, American rapper.
- 1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer.
- 1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
- 1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer.
- 1980 – Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter and actor.
- 1989 – Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper and actor.
- 1989 – Sara Nuru, German model.
[change] Deaths
- 14 – Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC).
- 1493 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415).
- 1580 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508).
- 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher and physicist (b. 1623).
- 1819 – James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736).
- 1929 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872).
- 1936 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet (b. 1898).
- 1954 – Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881).
- 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer (b. 1901).
- 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890).
- 1980 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889).
- 1994 – Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901).
- 1995 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910).
- 2002 – Eduardo Chillida, Basque sculptor (b. 1924).
- 2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926).
- 2003 – Sergio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) (killed in a car bombing in Baghdad).
- 2005 – Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949).
- 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948).
- 2010 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (b. 1920).
- 2011 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish television star (b. 1932)
[change] Events
- 43 BC – Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him as consul.
- 1692 – Salem Witch Trials: Five people are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
- 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan, beginning the second Jacobite rebellion.
- 1848 – The New York Herald reports on the gold found in California.
- 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1941 – On Alaska's Kodiak Island, the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is founded.
- 1953 – The CIA helps to overthrow Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh, allowing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to power.
- 1960 – Sputnik 5 is launched, with dogs, mice and plants on board. They all return safely back to Earth.
- 1965 – Eisaku Sato, becomes the first post-World War II Prime Minister of Japan to visit Okinawa.
- 1980 – A Lockheed L-1011 airplane of the Saudia airline, burns after making an emergency landing at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. This is Saudi Arabia's worst-ever air disaster.
- 1987 – In Hungerford, England, a gunman kills 16 people with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
- 1991 – August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest, while on holiday in Foros, Crimea.
- 2003 – A car bomb attack on Baghdad's United Nations Headquarters kills 22 people, including Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
- 2007 – Pro-democracy demonstrations begin in Burma, led by Buddhist monks and nuns.
- 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad kills 101 people, and injures 565.
- 2010 – The last US combat troops leave Iraq.
[change] Observances
- World Humanitarian Day
- Independence Day (Afghanistan)
