Anniversaries 19 August

Birth

Samuel Richardson21

English writer and printer 1689–1761

Pierre-Jean de Béranger9

French poet and chansonnier 1780–1857

James Nasmyth9

Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor 1808–1890

Tom Wills1

Australian sportsman 1835–1880

Montgomery Schuyler1

American architecture critic 1843–1914

John Cotton Dana2

American librarian and museum director 1856–1929

Maurice Barrès7

French novelist 1862–1923

Ashraf Ali Thanwi5

Indian Muslim scholar 1863–1943

Bernard Baruch17

American businessman 1870–1965

Orville Wright1

American aviation pioneer 1871–1948

Théophile de Donder1

Belgian physicist 1872–1957

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller1

British–Canadian mycologist 1874–1944

Manuel L. Quezon3

president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 1878–1944

Coco Chanel22

French fashion designer 1883–1971

Arthur Waley21

British academic 1889–1966

Roman Vishniac11

American photographer 1897–1990

Gilbert Ryle8

British philosopher 1900–1976

Ogden Nash125

American poet 1902–1971

James Gould Cozzens2

American novelist 1903–1978

Philo Farnsworth4

American inventor 1906–1971

Josephine Jacobsen2

American-Canadian poet 1908–2003

Arthur Calder-Marshall3

English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer 1908–1992

John D. Bulkeley4

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient 1911–1996

Shankar Dayal Sharma35

Indian politician 1918–1999

Malcolm Forbes2

American publisher 1919–1990

Julia Child40

American chef 1921–2004

Gene Roddenberry27

American television screenwriter and producer 1921–1991

Clara Claiborne Park1

Author about autism experiences 1923–2010

E. F. Codd5

computer scientist 1923–2003

Willard Boyle1

Canadian physicist and inventor 1924–2011

Angus Scrimm1

American actor 1926–2016

Hsing Yun1

Chinese religious leader 1927

Francis Minah1

Sierra Leonean politician 1929–1989

Frank McCourt38

Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

Gordon Bell6

American computer engineer 1934

Fred Thompson22

American politician and actor 1942–2015

Jack Canfield16

American writer 1944

Bill Clinton99

42nd President of the United States 1946

Mary Doria Russell9

American novelist 1950

John Bellamy Foster15

Sociology professor and Marxist writer 1953

Mary Matalin1

American political consultant 1953

Peter Lerangis6

American writer 1955

Li-Young Lee3

American writer 1957

Kátya Chamma5

Brazilian singer and writer 1961

Jonathan Coe2

English novelist 1961

Khandro Rinpoche2

Buddhist lama 1967

Satya Nadella9

CEO of Microsoft appointed on 4 February 2014 1967

Matthew Perry (actor)12

American actor 1969

Gary Yourofsky7

animal rights activist 1970

Farhad Manjoo6

American journalist 1978

Veronica Roth6

American author 1988

E.M.S13

Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer 1995

Death

Augustus23

founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the … -63–14 BC

Blaise Pascal144

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri… 1623–1662

Johann de Kalb6

American general 1721–1780

Robert Bloomfield3

British writer 1766–1823

William-Adolphe Bouguereau2

French painter 1825–1905

Vilfredo Pareto14

Italian economist and sociologist 1848–1923

Black Elk42

Oglala Lakota leader 1863–1950

Albert Jay Nock68

American journalist 1870–1945

Sergei Diaghilev1

Russian art critic 1872–1929

Ma Fuxiang5

Chinese politician 1876–1932

Géza Révész3

Hungarian psychologist and musicologist 1878–1955

Jacob Epstein2

American-born British sculptor 1880–1959

Fritz Bleyl2

German artist 1880–1966

Frances Cornford3

English poet 1886–1960

Groucho Marx117

American comedian 1890–1977

David Bomberg7

painter 1890–1957

Linus Pauling19

American scientist 1901–1994

George Gamow8

Russian-American physicist and science writer 1904–1968

Isaac Deutscher3

British historian 1907–1967

J. Irwin Miller1

American businessman 1909–2004

Pierre Schaeffer8

French musicologist 1910–1995

Satchidananda Saraswati1

Yogiraj 1914–2002

Irving Copi1

American logician 1917–2002

Brian W. Aldiss116

British science fiction author 1925–2017

Dick Gregory9

American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, … 1932–2017

Chuck Close2

American artist 1940–2021