August 19

August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 134 days remain until the end of the year.

• 295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.^[1]
• 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• 947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
• 1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• 1458 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.^[2]
• 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Cambro-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.^[3]
• 1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.^[4]

• 1604 – Eighty Years War: a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of Sluis to capitulate.^[5]
• 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
• 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
• 1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
• 1745 – Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
• 1759 – Battle of Lagos: Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
• 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.^[6]
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
• 1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
• 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
• 1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
• 1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
• 1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
• 1862 – Dakota War: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.

• 1903 – The Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in East Thrace, resulting in the establishment of the Strandzha Commune.^[7]
• 1909 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. William Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.^[8]
• 1920 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.^[9]
• 1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
• 1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
• 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
• 1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.^[10]
• 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee (The Dieppe Raid): The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails.
• 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
• 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• 1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• 1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
• 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
• 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
• 1978 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths.
• 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
• 1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.^[11]
• 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• 1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
• 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
• 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
• 1991 – Crown Heights riot begins.^[12]
• 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
• 2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
• 2003 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.^[13]
• 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.^[14]
• 2004 – Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.^[15]
• 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
• 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
• 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
• 2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
• 2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.

• 232 – Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)^[16]
• 1342 – Catherine of Bohemia, duchess of Austria (d. 1395)
• 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1458)^[17]
• 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (probable;^[18] d. 1630)
• 1583 – Daišan, Chinese prince and statesman (d. 1648)
• 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1649)
• 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)^[19]

• 1609 – Jan Fyt, Flemish painter (d. 1661)^[20]
• 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (d. 1674)
• 1631 – John Dryden, English poet, literary critic and playwright (d. 1700)
• 1646 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (d. 1719)
• 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (d. 1737)
• 1689 (baptized) – Samuel Richardson, English author and publisher (d. 1761)^[21]
• 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (d. 1761)
• 1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1781)
• 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1793)^[22]
• 1777 – Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)^[23]
• 1815 – Harriette Newell Woods Baker, American editor and children's book writer (d. 1893)^[24]
• 1819 – Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Luxembourger-Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894)
• 1830 – Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (d. 1895)
• 1835 – Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football (d. 1880)
• 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American minister and theologian (d. 1921)
• 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and engineer (d. 1894)
• 1849 – Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian politician and diplomat (d. 1910)
• 1858 – Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (d. 1934)^[25]
• 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
• 1871 – Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (d. 1948)^[26]
• 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor and producer (d. 1959)
• 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
• 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1955)^[27]
• 1881 – George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (d. 1954)
• 1883 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (d. 1971)^[28]
• 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
• 1885 – Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (d. 1969)^[29]
• 1887 – S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
• 1895 – C. Suntharalingam, Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
• 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001)

• 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)^[30]
• 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1978)^[31]
• 1904 – Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1963)
• 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor (d. 1971)^[32]
• 1907 – Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar (d. 1979)
• 1909 – Ronald King, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)
• 1910 – Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (d. 1946)^[33]
• 1911 – Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Herb Narvo, Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (d. 1958)^[34]
• 1913 – John Argyris, Greek engineer and academic (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Peter Kemp, Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955)^[35]
• 1914 – Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (d. 2005)^[36]
• 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (d. 1985)
• 1916 – Dennis Poore, English racing driver and businessman (d. 1987)
• 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher and politician (d. 1990)^[37]
• 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)^[37]
• 1922 – Jack Holland, Australian rugby league player (d. 1994)^[38]
• 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003)^[39]
• 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1924 – William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (d. 2003)^[40]
• 1925 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1971)
• 1926 – Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Shiv Prasaad Singh, Indian Hindi writer (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic (d. 2021)
• 1930 – Frank McCourt, American author and educator (d. 2009)^[37]
• 1931 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey and author (d. 2003)^[41]
• 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
• 1932 – Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996) (d. 2016)
• 1933 – Bettina Cirone, American model and photographer
• 1933 – David Hopwood, English microbiologist and geneticist
• 1933 – Debra Paget, American actress^[42]
• 1934 – David Durenberger, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2023)
• 1934 – Renée Richards, American tennis player and ophthalmologist
• 1935 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player and coach
• 1936 – Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Richard Ingrams, English journalist, founded The Oldie
• 1937 – William Motzing, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress^[42]
• 1938 – Nelly Vuksic, Argentine conductor and musician
• 1939 – Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (d. 2019)^[43]
• 1940 – Roger Cook, English songwriter, singer, and producer
• 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)^[37]
• 1940 – Jill St. John, American model and actress^[42]
• 1941 – John Cootes, Australian rugby league player, priest, and businessman^[44]
• 1941 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek educator and politician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Fred Thompson, American actor, lawyer, and politician (d. 2015)^[37]
• 1943 – Don Fardon, English pop singer
• 1943 – Sid Going, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2024)^[45]
• 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, English pop singer^[42]
• 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author
• 1944 – Stew Johnson, American basketball player^[46]
• 1944 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish author and poet (d. 2016)
• 1944 – Eddy Raven, American country music singer-songwriter^[42]
• 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Computer Associates International (d. 2018)
• 1945 – Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, English politician
• 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter^[42]
• 1946 – Charles Bolden, American general and astronaut
• 1946 – Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 42nd President of the United States^[47]
• 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Dave Dutton, English actor and screenwriter
• 1947 – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Gerald McRaney, American actor^[42]
• 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor and director
• 1947 – Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematician
• 1948 – Jim Carter, English actor^[42]
• 1948 – Tipper Gore, American activist and author, former Second Lady of the United States^[37]
• 1948 – Robert Hughes, Australian actor
• 1948 – Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (d. 2016)
• 1949 – Michael Nazir-Ali, Pakistani-English bishop
• 1950 – Jennie Bond, English journalist and author
• 1950 – Sudha Murty, Indian author and teacher, head of Infosys Foundation^[48]
• 1951 – John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter^[42]
• 1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director^[42]
• 1952 – Gabriela Grillo, German equestrian (d. 2024)^[49][50]
• 1952 – Jimmy Watson, Canadian ice hockey player^[51]
• 1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentinian racing driver
• 1955 – Mary-Anne Fahey, Australian actress
• 1955 – Peter Gallagher, American actor^[42]
• 1955 – Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor, director, and producer^[42]
• 1956 – José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist
• 1957 – Paul-Jan Bakker, Dutch cricketer
• 1957 – Gary Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[42]
• 1957 – Martin Donovan, American actor and director^[42]
• 1957 – Ian Gould, English cricketer and umpire
• 1957 – Cesare Prandelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1957 – Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
• 1957 – Gerda Verburg, Dutch trade union leader and politician, Dutch Minister of Agriculture
• 1958 – Gary Gaetti, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1958 – Anthony Muñoz, American football player and sportscaster
• 1958 – Brendan Nelson, Australian physician and politician, 47th Minister for Defence for Australia
• 1958 – Rick Snyder, American politician and businessman, 48th Governor of Michigan
• 1958 – Darryl Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach^[52]
• 1959 – Chris Mortimer, Australian rugby league player^[53]
• 1959 – Ivan Neville, American singer-songwriter^[42]
• 1959 – Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
• 1960 – Morten Andersen, Danish-American football player
• 1960 – Ron Darling, American baseball player and commentator^[54]
• 1961 – Jonathan Coe, English author and academic^[55]
• 1963 – John Stamos, American actor^[56]
• 1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor^[42]
• 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress and producer^[42]
• 1965 – James Tomkins, Australian rower^[57]
• 1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter^[42]
• 1967 – Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader
• 1967 – Satya Nadella, Indian-American business executive, chairman and CEO of Microsoft^[58]
• 1969 – Douglas Allen Tunstall Jr., American professional wrestler and politician^[59]
• 1969 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011)
• 1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)^[60]
• 1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1969 – Clay Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[61]
• 1970 – Fat Joe, American rapper^[42]
• 1971 – Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player and coach
• 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
• 1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Roy Rogers, American basketball player and coach^[62]
• 1973 – Tasma Walton, Australian actress^[63]
• 1975 – Tracie Thoms, American actress^[42]
• 1976 – Régine Chassagne, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
• 1978 – Chris Capuano, American baseball player
• 1978 – Jakub Dvorský, Czech game designer ^[64]
• 1978 – Thomas Jones, American football player^[65]
• 1979 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• 1980 – Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2022)
• 1980 – Craig Frawley, Australian rugby league player^[66]
• 1980 – Jun Jin, South Korean singer
• 1980 – Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
• 1980 – Michael Todd, American bass player
• 1981 – Nick Kennedy, English rugby player
• 1981 – Taylor Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player^[67]
• 1981 – Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler
• 1982 – Erika Christensen, American actress^[42]
• 1982 – Melissa Fumero, American actress^[42]
• 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Stipe Miocic, American professional mixed martial artist
• 1982 – Steve Ott, Canadian ice hockey player^[68]
• 1983 – Mike Conway, English racing driver
• 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Tammin Sursok, South African-Australian actress and singer^[42]
• 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and screenwriter
• 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
• 1985 – David A. Gregory, American actor
• 1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder
• 1986 – Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1986 – Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter^[37]
• 1987 – Patrick Chung, Jamaican-American football player^[69]
• 1987 – Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 – Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver
• 1988 – Kirk Cousins, American football player^[70]
• 1988 – Veronica Roth, American author^[71]
• 1989 – Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor^[72]
• 1990 – Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1991 – Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer^[73]
• 1992 – David Rittich, Czech ice hockey player^[74]
• 1993 – Pio Seci, Fijian rugby league player^[75]
• 1994 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete^[76]
• 1994 – Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist^[77]
• 1996 – Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress^[78]
• 1996 – Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player^[79]
• 1999 – Ethan Cutkosky, American actor and musician^[42]
• 1999 – Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player^[80]
• 2000 – Keegan Murray, American basketball player^[81]
• 2001 – Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player^[82][83]

• 607 BC – Duke Ling of Jin, Chinese monarch^[84]
• AD 14 – Augustus, Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)^[85]
• 780 – Credan, English abbot and saint
• 947 – Abu Yazid, Kharijite rebel leader (b. 873)
• 998 – Fujiwara no Sukemasa, Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher (b. 944)
• 1072 – Hawise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1037)
• 1085 – Al-Juwayni, Muslim scholar and imam (b. 1028)
• 1186 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
• 1245 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
• 1284 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (b. 1273)
• 1297 – Louis of Toulouse, French bishop and saint (b. 1274)
• 1457 – Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter (b. 1421)
• 1470 – Richard Olivier de Longueil, French cardinal (b. 1406)
• 1493 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
• 1506 – King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
• 1541 – Vincenzo Cappello, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1469)^[86]
• 1580 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (b. 1508)

• 1646 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1583)
• 1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)^[87]
• 1680 – Jean Eudes, French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
• 1691 – Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1637)
• 1702 – Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1645)
• 1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
• 1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
• 1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1883 – Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
• 1889 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1895 – John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)^[88]
• 1900 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)

• 1914 – Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1915 – Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
• 1923 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1932 – Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1936 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1942 – Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1942 – Heinrich Rauchinger, Kraków-born painter (b. 1858)^[89]
• 1944 – Henry Wood, English conductor (b. 1869)^[90]
• 1945 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1954 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
• 1957 – David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 – Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 – August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1986 – Viv Thicknesse, Australian rugby player (b. 1910)^[91]
• 1993 – Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)^[92]
• 2012 – Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927)
• 2014 – James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1973)
• 2014 – Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942)
• 2015 – George Houser, American minister and activist (b. 1916)
• 2015 – Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Jack Riley, American actor and voice artist (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932)^[93]
• 2019 – Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948)^[94]
• 2021 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (b. 1939)^[95]
• 2022 – Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian (b. 1906)^[96]
• 2023 – Václav Patejdl, Slovak musician (b. 1954)^[97]
• 2024 – Maria Branyas, American-Spanish supercentenarian (b. 1907)^[98]

• Afghan Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain (Afghanistan)
• August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
• Birthday of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bernardo Tolomei
  • Bertulf of Bobbio
  • Saint Calminius
  • Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz
  • Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar), and its related observances:
    • Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
    • Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast" (Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church)
  • Jean-Eudes de Mézeray
  • Louis of Toulouse
  • Maginus
  • Magnus of Anagni
  • Magnus of Avignon
  • Sebaldus
  • August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in the Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
• National Aviation Day (United States)
• World Humanitarian Day^[99]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to August 19.

• "On This Day". BBC.
• The New York Times: On This Day
• "Historical Events on August 19". OnThisDay.com.