Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 19

Births

 * 1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
 * 1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
 * 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
 * 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
 * 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
 * 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
 * 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
 * 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
 * 1946 - Bill Clinton, American president
 * 1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor (d. 2023)

Deaths

 * AD 14 - Augustus, (pictured) Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
 * 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
 * 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
 * 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
 * 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
 * 1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
 * 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
 * 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
 * 1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
 * 2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)