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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of August 1504 | EVENT | Battle of Knockdoe. |
| 19th of August 1561 | EVENT | An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France. |
| 19th of August 1612 | EVENT | The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history. |
| 19th of August 1666 | EVENT | 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". |
| 19th of August 1692 | EVENT | Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. |
| 19th of August 1745 | EVENT | Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan : the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45". |
| 19th of August 1759 | EVENT | Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year's War between Britain and France. |
| 19th of August 1768 | EVENT | Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| 19th of August 1772 | EVENT | Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'etat, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King. |
| 19th of August 1782 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks : the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown. |
| 19th of August 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides". |
| 19th of August 1813 | EVENT | Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate. |
| 19th of August 1821 | EVENT | Greek rebels massacre all the population of Navarino. |
| 19th of August 1839 | EVENT | Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. |
| 19th of August 1848 | EVENT | 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). |
| 19th of August 1861 | EVENT | First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps. |
| 19th of August 1862 | EVENT | Indian Wars: 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. |
| 19th of August 1895 | EVENT | American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. |
| 19th of August 1919 | EVENT | Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 19th of August 1927 | EVENT | Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. |
| 19th of August 1934 | EVENT | The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. |
| 19th of August 1934 | EVENT | The creation of the position Fuhrer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote. |
| 19th of August 1940 | EVENT | First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. |
| 19th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Jubilee : the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy. |
| 19th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Liberation of Paris : Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. |
| 19th of August 1945 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam. |
| 19th of August 1953 | EVENT | Cold War: the CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. |
| 19th of August 1955 | EVENT | In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives. |
| 19th of August 1960 | EVENT | Cold War: in Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage. |
| 19th of August 1960 | EVENT | Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 : the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. |
| 19th of August 1965 | EVENT | Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa. |
| 19th of August 1980 | EVENT | Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. |
| 19th of August 1981 | EVENT | Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra. |
| 19th of August 1987 | EVENT | Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide. |
| 19th of August 1989 | EVENT | Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years. |
| 19th of August 1989 | EVENT | Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments. |
| 19th of August 1989 | EVENT | Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| 19th of August 1991 | EVENT | dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea. |
| 19th of August 1999 | EVENT | In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic. |
| 19th of August 2002 | EVENT | A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
| 19th of August 2003 | EVENT | A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. |
| 19th of August 2003 | EVENT | A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre. |
| 19th of August 2005 | EVENT | The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. |
| 19th of August 2005 | EVENT | A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell. |
| 19th of August 2009 | EVENT | A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. |
| 19th of August 2010 | EVENT | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
| 19th of August 0232 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282) |
| 19th of August 1342 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395) |
| 19th of August 1398 | BIRTHDAY | Marques de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458) |
| 19th of August 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick I, Duke of Wurttemberg (d. 1608) |
| 19th of August 1590 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649) |
| 19th of August 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662) |
| 19th of August 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674) |
| 19th of August 1631 | BIRTHDAY | John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700) |
| 19th of August 1646 | BIRTHDAY | John Flamsteed, first English Astronomer Royal (d. 1719) |
| 19th of August 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737) |
| 19th of August 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761) |
| 19th of August 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761) |
| 19th of August 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793) |
| 19th of August 1843 | BIRTHDAY | C.I. Scofield, author of Scofield Reference Bible (d. 1921) |
| 19th of August 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Martin, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906) |
| 19th of August 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Caillebotte, French Painter (d. 1894) |
| 19th of August 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910) |
| 19th of August 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926) |
| 19th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965) |
| 19th of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948) |
| 19th of August 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Stone, American actor (d. 1959) |
| 19th of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936) |
| 19th of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944) |
| 19th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955) |
| 19th of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971) |
| 19th of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Mendes Cabecadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965) |
| 19th of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961) |
| 19th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966) |
| 19th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974) |
| 19th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959) |
| 19th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962) |
| 19th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Moore, American film actress.(d. 1988) |
| 19th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976) |
| 19th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971) |
| 19th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994) |
| 19th of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978) |
| 19th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971) |
| 19th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982) |
| 19th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Archie League, generally considered the first air traffic controller (d. 1986) |
| 19th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963) |
| 19th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 19th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004) |
| 19th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005) |
| 19th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985) |
| 19th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 19th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990) |
| 19th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991) |
| 19th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971) |
| 19th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist |
| 19th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | L.Q. Jones, American actor |
| 19th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004) |
| 19th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006) |
| 19th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Massey, Canadian actor |
| 19th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009) |
| 19th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003) |
| 19th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont |
| 19th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Renee Richards, American physician |
| 19th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Richardson, American baseball player |
| 19th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Muldaur, American actress |
| 19th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) |
| 19th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter |
| 19th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jill St. John, American actress |
| 19th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 2009) |
| 19th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Thompson, American politician and actor |
| 19th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Billy J. Kramer, British singer |
| 19th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Canfield, American author and speaker |
| 19th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer |
| 19th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist |
| 19th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality |
| 19th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, English heir of the 8th Duke of Wellington |
| 19th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple) |
| 19th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sandro de America, Argentine singer & actor (d. 2010) |
| 19th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States |
| 19th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor |
| 19th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997) |
| 19th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Dutton, English actor |
| 19th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007) |
| 19th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Schwarz, American conductor |
| 19th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald McRaney, American actor |
| 19th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States |
| 19th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sudha Murthy, Indian social worker and writer |
| 19th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer |
| 19th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jennie Bond, British journalist |
| 19th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Deacon, English musician (Queen) |
| 19th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Muller, Norwegian model and actress |
| 19th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer |
| 19th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director |
| 19th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lynwood Slim, American blues musician |
| 19th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Matalin, American political consultant |
| 19th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer |
| 19th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver |
| 19th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Gallagher, American actor |
| 19th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager |
| 19th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Arkin, American actor |
| 19th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet |
| 19th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer |
| 19th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper |
| 19th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Gould, England cricketer |
| 19th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Munoz, American football player |
| 19th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gaetti, American baseball player |
| 19th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Nelson, Australian politician |
| 19th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Pierce, American basketball player |
| 19th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer |
| 19th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Morten Andersen, American football player |
| 19th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Darling, American baseball player and announcer |
| 19th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Coe, British author |
| 19th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Kaprisky, French actress |
| 19th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Bruce, American political commentator |
| 19th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Stamos, American actor |
| 19th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe) |
| 19th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) |
| 19th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Dillon, American actor |
| 19th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kyra Sedgwick, American actress |
| 19th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director |
| 19th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer |
| 19th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Ann Womack, American musician |
| 19th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer |
| 19th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark McGuinn, country music singer |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Dogg, American rapper |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay) |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Jai Parker, American actress |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Van Horn, American actor |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Perry, American actor |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player |
| 19th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Walker, American singer |
| 19th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Tam, American baseball player |
| 19th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Fat Joe, American rapper |
| 19th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jo Fernandez, Tennis player |
| 19th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player |
| 19th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 19th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer |
| 19th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer |
| 19th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway |
| 19th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer |
| 19th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer |
| 19th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Callum Blue, British actor |
| 19th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kasher, American musician, Cursive and The Good Life |
| 19th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator |
| 19th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tracie Thoms, American actress |
| 19th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Coti Zelati, Italian bassist (Lacuna Coil) |
| 19th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist |
| 19th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Takahiro Yamada, Japanese bassist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation) |
| 19th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Capuano, American baseball player |
| 19th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Oumar Konde, Swiss footballer |
| 19th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K, Attack Cat) |
| 19th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa) |
| 19th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Houcine Camara, French singer |
| 19th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Parry, Welsh footballer |
| 19th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor |
| 19th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria) |
| 19th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Christensen, American actress |
| 19th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Hardy, American baseball player |
| 19th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Denzey, French singer |
| 19th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter |
| 19th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 19th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Conway, British racing driver |
| 19th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John McCargo, American football player |
| 19th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer |
| 19th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Micah Alberti, American actor |
| 19th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer |
| 19th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Bird, English actor and comedian |
| 19th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Taylor, English footballer |
| 19th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Rochell, American singer |
| 19th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player |
| 19th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Hulkenberg, German racing driver |
| 19th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Stearman, English footballer |
| 19th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anais Lameche, Swedish singer (Play) |
| 19th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Tedford, American actor |
| 19th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Romeo Miller, American rapper and basketball player |
| 19th of August 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Guevara, Filipino actress |
| 19th of August 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Xyriel Manabat, Filipino actress |
| 19th of August 0014 | DEATH | Augustus, Roman Emperor (Born 63 BC) |
| 19th of August 1186 | DEATH | Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (Born 1158) |
| 19th of August 1245 | DEATH | Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (Born 1195) |
| 19th of August 1284 | DEATH | Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (Born 1273) |
| 19th of August 1297 | DEATH | Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (Born 1274) |
| 19th of August 1493 | DEATH | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1415) |
| 19th of August 1580 | DEATH | Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (Born 1508) |
| 19th of August 1646 | DEATH | Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian |
| 19th of August 1662 | DEATH | Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (Born 1623) |
| 19th of August 1680 | DEATH | Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (Born 1601) |
| 19th of August 1692 | DEATH | John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (Born1632) |
| 19th of August 1753 | DEATH | Balthasar Neumann, German architect (Born 1687) |
| 19th of August 1808 | DEATH | Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (Born 1721) |
| 19th of August 1819 | DEATH | James Watt, Scottish inventor (Born 1736) |
| 19th of August 1822 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (Born 1749) |
| 19th of August 1883 | DEATH | Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (Born 1810) |
| 19th of August 1889 | DEATH | Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (Born 1838) |
| 19th of August 1895 | DEATH | John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (Born 1853) |
| 19th of August 1900 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (Born 1833) |
| 19th of August 1914 | DEATH | Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Born 1844) |
| 19th of August 1923 | DEATH | Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (Born 1845) |
| 19th of August 1928 | DEATH | Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (Born 1838) |
| 19th of August 1929 | DEATH | Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Born 1872) |
| 19th of August 1936 | DEATH | Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish author (Born 1898) |
| 19th of August 1944 | DEATH | Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal (Born 1882) |
| 19th of August 1945 | DEATH | Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (Born 1875) |
| 19th of August 1950 | DEATH | Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (Born 1871) |
| 19th of August 1954 | DEATH | Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (Born 1881) |
| 19th of August 1957 | DEATH | Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (Born 1898) |
| 19th of August 1957 | DEATH | David Bomberg, English painter (Born 1890) |
| 19th of August 1959 | DEATH | Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (Born 1880) |
| 19th of August 1959 | DEATH | Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Born 1901) |
| 19th of August 1963 | DEATH | Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (Born 1890) |
| 19th of August 1967 | DEATH | Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (Born 1884) |
| 19th of August 1967 | DEATH | Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (Born 1907) |
| 19th of August 1968 | DEATH | George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (Born 1904) |
| 19th of August 1970 | DEATH | Pawe? Jasienica, Polish historian (Born 1909) |
| 19th of August 1975 | DEATH | Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (Born 1937) |
| 19th of August 1975 | DEATH | Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (Born 1897) |
| 19th of August 1976 | DEATH | Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (Born 1900) |
| 19th of August 1976 | DEATH | Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (Born 1946) |
| 19th of August 1977 | DEATH | Peter Dyneley, British actor (Born 1921) |
| 19th of August 1977 | DEATH | Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (Born 1890) |
| 19th of August 1979 | DEATH | Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(Born 1887) |
| 19th of August 1979 | DEATH | Dorsey Burnette, American singer (Born 1932) |
| 19th of August 1980 | DEATH | Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (Born 1889) |
| 19th of August 1981 | DEATH | Jessie Matthews, English actress (Born 1907) |
| 19th of August 1982 | DEATH | August Neo, Estonian wrestler (Born 1908) |
| 19th of August 1986 | DEATH | Hermione Baddeley, English actress (Born 1906) |
| 19th of August 1994 | DEATH | Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (Born 1901) |
| 19th of August 1995 | DEATH | Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (Born 1910) |
| 19th of August 2000 | DEATH | Theodore Trautwein, American judge (Born 1920) |
| 19th of August 2000 | DEATH | Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo litterateur and religious figure (birth date unknown) |
| 19th of August 2000 | DEATH | Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (Born 1941) |
| 19th of August 2001 | DEATH | Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (Born 1933) |
| 19th of August 2001 | DEATH | Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (Born 1939) |
| 19th of August 2003 | DEATH | Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (Born 1926) |
| 19th of August 2003 | DEATH | Sergio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (Born 1948) |
| 19th of August 2005 | DEATH | Mo Mowlam, British politician (Born 1949) |
| 19th of August 2005 | DEATH | Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (Born 1918) |
| 19th of August 2008 | DEATH | Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (Born 1948) |
| 19th of August 2008 | DEATH | LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (Born 1961) |
| 19th of August 2009 | DEATH | Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (Born 1922) |