August 19

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

Events

• 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
• 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
• 1612 – 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.
• 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, Massachusetts, 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".
• 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
• 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 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.
• 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 her 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).
• 1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
• 1862 – American 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.
• 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
• 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius 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 creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
• 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
• 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, 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.
• 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, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
• 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
• 1980 – 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.
• 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States 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 an assault 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 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in the North Sea by British and Dutch governments.
• 1989 – 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.
• 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
• 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
• 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
• 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
• 2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
• 2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
• 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
• 2005 – 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.
• 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.
• 2012 – A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan.

Births

• 232 – Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
• 1342 – Catherine of Bohemia (d. 1395)
• 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet (d. 1458)
• 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
• 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630)
• 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
• 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
• 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
• 1646 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
• 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
• 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral (d. 1761)
• 1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
• 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1793)
• 1819 – Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Dutch politician (d. 1894)
• 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer (d. 1921)
• 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (d. 1894)
• 1849 – Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910)
• 1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
• 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
• 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor (d. 1959)
• 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
• 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower (d. 1938)
• 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
• 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966)
• 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor (d. 1959)
• 1900 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962)
• 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
• 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Lewis Sargent, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Archie League, American air traffic controller (d. 1986)
• 1907 – Thruston Ballard Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Austin Dobson, English race car driver (d. 1963)
• 1913 – John Argyris, Greek scientist (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955)
• 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (d. 1985)
• 1916 – Dennis Poore, English race car driver, businessman, and financier (d. 1987)
• 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, American pianist (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
• 1926 – Annie Palmen, Dutch singer (d.2000)
• 1926 – Arthur Rock, American investor
• 1927 – L. Q. Jones, American actor and director
• 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor
• 1929 – Ion N. Petrovici, German neurologist
• 1930 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, American politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
• 1934 – David Durenberger, American politician
• 1934 – Renée Richards, American physician and tennis player
• 1935 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
• 1935 – Zahir Raihan, Bangladeshi author and director
• 1938 – Joe Frank, American radio host
• 1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress
• 1939 – Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (Cream, Blind Faith, Blues Incorporated, and Atomic Rooster)
• 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress
• 1941 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
• 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, English singer
• 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author
• 1944 – Buzz Kilman, American radio host
• 1944 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
• 1944 – Eddy Raven, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded CA Technologies
• 1945 – Sandro de América, Argentine singer and actor (d. 2010)
• 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple, Episode Six, and WhoCares)
• 1945 – Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro
• 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut
• 1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, 42nd President of the United States
• 1946 – Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
• 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Dave Dutton, English actor
• 1947 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
• 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor
• 1948 – Tipper Gore, American author and photographer, co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center
• 1950 – Jennie Bond, English journalist
• 1950 – Sudha Murty, Indian social worker and writer
• 1950 – Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
• 1951 – John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter (Queen)
• 1951 – Lillian Müller, Norwegian model and actress
• 1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine composer
• 1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
• 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant
• 1953 – Nanni Moretti, Italian actor, director, and producer
• 1953 – Lynwood Slim, American singer and harmonica player
• 1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentine race car driver
• 1955 – Peter Gallagher, American actor, singer, and writer
• 1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor
• 1956 – José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist
• 1957 – Paul-Jan Bakker, Dutch cricketer
• 1957 – Martin Donovan, American actor
• 1957 – Ian Gould, English cricketer
• 1957 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet
• 1957 – Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
• 1957 – Gerda Verburg, Dutch diplomat, trade union leader and politician
• 1958 – Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
• 1958 – Anthony Muñoz, American football player
• 1958 – Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
• 1959 – Susan Cummings, Monegasque-American heiress and murderer
• 1959 – Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
• 1960 – Morten Andersen, American football player
• 1960 – Ron Darling, American baseball player
• 1961 – Cor Bakker, Dutch pianist
• 1961 – Jonathan Coe, English author
• 1962 – Tammy Bruce, American radio host and author
• 1962 – Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
• 1962 – Toll Yagami, Japanese drummer (Buck-Tick)
• 1963 – John Stamos, American actor and singer
• 1963 – Joey Tempest, Swedish singer-songwriter (Europe)
• 1963 – Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor (Beyond)
• 1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor
• 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
• 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
• 1966 – Lilian Garcia, Spanish-American singer and ring announcer
• 1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Wilco Zeelenberg, Dutch motorcycle road racer
• 1967 – Khandro Rinpoche, Tibetan spiritual leader
• 1968 – Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
• 1968 – Mark McGuinn, American singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Nate Dogg, American rapper and actor (213) (d. 2011)
• 1969 – Kirk Herbstreit, American sportscaster
• 1969 – Paula Jai Parker, American actress
• 1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor
• 1969 – Emigdio Preciado, Jr., Mexican-American criminal
• 1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor
• 1969 – Clay Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Fat Joe, American rapper (Terror Squad and Diggin' in the Crates Crew)
• 1970 – Jeff Tam, American baseball player
• 1971 – Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player
• 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
• 1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
• 1972 – Sammi Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1972 – Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Jamie Zubairi, English actor
• 1972 – Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets)
• 1973 – Callum Blue, English actor
• 1973 – Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1973 – Clayton Counts, American composer
• 1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
• 1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Zubayr Al-Rimi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2003)
• 1974 – Tim Kasher, American singer-songwriter Cursive, The Good Life, Slowdown Virginia, and Commander Venus)
• 1974 – Anja Knippel, German athlete
• 1975 – Chynna Clugston, American illustrator
• 1975 – Tracie Thoms, American actress
• 1976 – Stephan Schmidt, German footballer
• 1977 – Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
• 1977 – Takahiro Yamada, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
• 1978 – Chris Capuano, American baseball player
• 1979 – Dave Douglas, American singer-songwriter and musician (Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter)
• 1979 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• 1980 – Houcine Camara, French singer
• 1980 – Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1980 – Jun Jin, South Korean singer and actor (Shinhwa)
• 1980 – Russell Kane English comedian, actor, and writer
• 1980 – Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
• 1980 – Michael Todd, American bass player (Coheed and Cambria)
• 1980 – Percy Watson, American wrestler and football player
• 1982 – Erika Christensen, American actress
• 1982 – Willy Denzey, French singer
• 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Mike Conway, English race car driver
• 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1983 – John McCargo, American football player
• 1983 – Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
• 1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer
• 1984 – Micah Alberti, American actor
• 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and comedian
• 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
• 1985 – J. Evan Bonifant, American actor
• 1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder
• 1985 – Megan Rochell, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1986 – Rúben Micael, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 – Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
• 1987 – Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 – Travis Tedford, American actor
• 1989 – Romeo Miller, American rapper, actor, and basketball player
• 1991 – Nathan Lopez, Filipino actor
• 1994 – Daniel Gabori, Hungarian actor
• 1994 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete
• 1996 – Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player
• 1997 – Joseph Castanon American actor and singer
• 1998 – Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
• 1999 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor
• 2004 – Xyriel Manabat, Filipino actress

Deaths

• 14 – Augustus, Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)
• 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 – Saint Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (b. 1274)
• 1493 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
• 1580 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
• 1646 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (b. 1583)
• 1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1680 – Jean Eudes, French priest, founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
• 1692 – John Proctor, Salem farmer accused of witchcraft during Salem Witch Trials (b. 1632)
• 1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
• 1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish navy admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
• 1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (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 writer (b. 1838)
• 1895 – John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (b. 1853)
• 1900 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
• 1914 – Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
• 1936 – Hugh Patrick Lygon, English son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (b. 1904)
• 1937 – Joe Lydon, American boxer (b. 1878)
• 1944 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1946 – Bob McKinney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
• 1954 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
• 1957 – David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-American writer and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Isaac Deutscher, polish journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1975 – Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Peter Dyneley, English actor (b. 1921)
• 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (b. 1932)
• 1979 – Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor (b. 1889)
• 1981 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
• 1982 – August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Utpal Dutt, Bengali actor (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Bineshwar Brahma, Indian religious figure (b. 1948)
• 2000 – Antonio Pugliese, Italian wrestler (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Mo Mowlam, English politician (b. 1949)
• 2008 – LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist and songwriter (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Don Hewitt, American television producer, creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Ghazi al-Sadiq, Sudanese politician
• 2012 – Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Tony Scott, English director and producer (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar), and its related observances:
    • Buhe (Ethiopian 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
  • Magnus of Anagni
  • Magnus of Avignon
  • Sebaldus
  • August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain. (Afghanistan)
• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in The Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
• National Aviation Day (United States)
• Vinalia (Roman Empire)
• World Humanitarian Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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