Anniversaries 19 August
Birth
![Samuel Richardson photo]()
English writer and printer
1689–1761
![Pierre-Jean de Béranger photo]()
French poet and chansonnier
1780–1857
![James Nasmyth photo]()
Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
1808–1890
![Tom Wills photo]()
Australian sportsman
1835–1880
![Montgomery Schuyler photo]()
American architecture critic
1843–1914
![John Cotton Dana photo]()
American librarian and museum director
1856–1929
![Maurice Barrès photo]()
French novelist
1862–1923
![Ashraf Ali Thanwi photo]()
Indian Muslim scholar
1863–1943
![Bernard Baruch photo]()
American businessman
1870–1965
![Orville Wright photo]()
American aviation pioneer
1871–1948
![Théophile de Donder photo]()
Belgian physicist
1872–1957
![Arthur Henry Reginald Buller photo]()
British–Canadian mycologist
1874–1944
![Manuel L. Quezon photo]()
president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
1878–1944
![Coco Chanel photo]()
French fashion designer
1883–1971
![Arthur Waley photo]()
British academic
1889–1966
![Roman Vishniac photo]()
American photographer
1897–1990
![Gilbert Ryle photo]()
British philosopher
1900–1976
![James Gould Cozzens photo]()
American novelist
1903–1978
![Philo Farnsworth photo]()
American inventor
1906–1971
![Josephine Jacobsen photo]()
American-Canadian poet
1908–2003
![Arthur Calder-Marshall photo]()
English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer
1908–1992
![John D. Bulkeley photo]()
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
1911–1996
![Shankar Dayal Sharma photo]()
Indian politician
1918–1999
![Malcolm Forbes photo]()
American publisher
1919–1990
![Gene Roddenberry photo]()
American television screenwriter and producer
1921–1991
![Clara Claiborne Park photo]()
Author about autism experiences
1923–2010
![E. F. Codd photo]()
computer scientist
1923–2003
![Willard Boyle photo]()
Canadian physicist and inventor
1924–2011
![Hsing Yun photo]()
Chinese religious leader
1927
![Francis Minah photo]()
Sierra Leonean politician
1929–1989
![Frank McCourt photo]()
Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
1930–2009
![Gordon Bell photo]()
American computer engineer
1934
![Fred Thompson photo]()
American politician and actor
1942–2015
![Bill Clinton photo]()
42nd President of the United States
1946
![John Bellamy Foster photo]()
Sociology professor and Marxist writer
1953
![Mary Matalin photo]()
American political consultant
1953
![Kátya Chamma photo]()
Brazilian singer and writer
1961
![Satya Nadella photo]()
CEO of Microsoft appointed on 4 February 2014
1967
![Gary Yourofsky photo]()
animal rights activist
1970
![E.M.S photo]()
Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer
1995
Death
![Augustus photo]()
founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the …
-63–14 BC
![Blaise Pascal photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri…
1623–1662
![Johann de Kalb photo]()
American general
1721–1780
![Vilfredo Pareto photo]()
Italian economist and sociologist
1848–1923
![Black Elk photo]()
Oglala Lakota leader
1863–1950
![Albert Jay Nock photo]()
American journalist
1870–1945
![Sergei Diaghilev photo]()
Russian art critic
1872–1929
![Ma Fuxiang photo]()
Chinese politician
1876–1932
![Géza Révész photo]()
Hungarian psychologist and musicologist
1878–1955
![Jacob Epstein photo]()
American-born British sculptor
1880–1959
![Groucho Marx photo]()
American comedian
1890–1977
![Linus Pauling photo]()
American scientist
1901–1994
![George Gamow photo]()
Russian-American physicist and science writer
1904–1968
![Isaac Deutscher photo]()
British historian
1907–1967
![J. Irwin Miller photo]()
American businessman
1909–2004
![Pierre Schaeffer photo]()
French musicologist
1910–1995
![Irving Copi photo]()
American logician
1917–2002
![Brian W. Aldiss photo]()
British science fiction author
1925–2017
![Dick Gregory photo]()
American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, …
1932–2017
![Chuck Close photo]()
American artist
1940–2021
