On this day: 19 August
Events, births and deaths on 19 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Angus Scrimm
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1072 · Deaths · Hawise, Duchess of Brittany
- 947 · Deaths · Abu Yazid
- 998 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Sukemasa
Events · 26
- 1691Battle of Slankamen — 1691 battle in the Great Turkish War
- 1759Battle of Lagos — 1759 battle
- 1772Revolution of 1772 — Swedish coup d'état
- 1782Battle of Blue Licks — 1782 battle
- 1812USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere — naval battle during the War of 1812
- 1854Sioux Wars — conflicts between the USA and subgroups of the Sioux people from 1854–1890
- 1920Tambov Rebellion — Russian peasant revolt (1920-1921)
- 1934German referendum of 1934 — referendum
- 1936Moscow Trials — series of three trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against so-called Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 1941Transnistria Governorate — governorate of the Kingdom of Romania (1941-1944)
- 1942Dieppe Raid — 1942 landing operation in World War II
- 1944Liberation of Paris — 1944 military action that took place during World War II
- 1978Cinema Rex fire — Massacre
- 1980Saudia Flight 163 — aviation accident
- 1980Otłoczyn railway accident — 1980 head-on collision between passenger train and freight train near Toruń, Poland
- 1981Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão — Brazilian television network
- 1981Gulf of Sidra incident — 1981 air battle between Libya and the United States in the Mediterranean
- 1987Hungerford massacre — fatal shooting of 16 people in Hungerford, U.K.
- 1989Pan-European Picnic — peace demonstration on the Austrian-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary on 19 Aug. 1989
- 19911991 Soviet coup d'état attempt — attempted coup d'état in the USSR against Mikhail Gorbachev's government in August 1991
- 20022002 Khankala Mi-26 crash — shoot-down of a Russian Air Force helicopter by Chechen separatists
- 2003Canal Hotel bombing — 2003 hotel bombing in Baghdad
- 2003Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing — bus bombing in 2003
- 2009August 2009 Baghdad bombings — car bomb and mortar attacks in Baghdad
- 2013Dhamara Ghat train accident — Tragedy in Bihar, India
- 20172017 Southeast Asian Games — 29th Southeast Asian Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Births · 60
- 1596Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia — Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662)
- 1646(Julian date)John Flamsteed — English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal
- 1743Madame du Barry — French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
- 1777Francis I of the Two Sicilies — King of the Two Sicilies (1777-1830)
- 1830Lothar Meyer — German chemist and physician (1830-1895)
- 1848Gustave Caillebotte — French painter (1848–1894)
- 1862Maurice Barrès — French novelist (1862-1923)
- 1870Bernard Mannes Baruch — American businessman (1870-1965)
- 1878Manuel L. Quezon — President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
- 1881Georges Enescou — Romanian composer and violinist (1881–1955)
- 1883Coco Chanel — French fashion designer (1883–1971)
- 1900Gilbert Ryle — British philosopher
- 1902Ogden Nash — American poet (1902–1971)
- 1906Philo Farnsworth — American inventor (1906–1971)
- 1921Gene Roddenberry — American television screenwriter and producer (1921–1991)
- 1923Edgar F. Codd — English computer scientist (1923–2003)
- 1924Willard Boyle — Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)
- 1930Frank McCourt — Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
- 1933Debra Paget — American actress and entertainer (born 1933)
- 1935Story Musgrave — American physician and NASA astronaut
- 1939Ginger Baker — British drummer (1939–2019)
- 1939Alan Baker — English mathematician (1939-2018)
- 1940Johnny Nash — American singer (1940–2020)
- 1940Jill St. John — American actress
- 1942Fred Thompson — American politician and actor (1942–2015)
Deaths · 60
- 14(Julian date)Augustus — first emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
- 1186(Julian date)Geoffrey II — English noble, Duke of Brittany jure uxoris
- 1284(Julian date)Alphonso, Earl of Chester — English noble
- 1457(Julian date)Andrea del Castagno — Italian painter (1420–1457)
- 1493(Julian date)Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493)
- 1506(Julian date)Alexander Jagiellon — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1580(Julian date)Andrea Palladio — Italian architect (1508–1580)
- 1662Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
- 1680Jean Eudes — French Catholic priest (1601–1680)
- 1691Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Paşa — Ottoman Grand Vizier (1637-1691)
- 1753Johann Balthasar Neumann — German engineer and architect (1687–1753)
- 1777Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben — German scientist
- 1808Fredrik Henrik af Chapman — Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (1721-1808)
- 1819James Watt — British engineer (1736–1819)
- 1822Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre — French mathematician and astronomer
- 1883Jeremiah S. Black — American lawyer and politician (1810-1883)
- 1889Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam — French writer (1838–1889)
- 1895John Wesley Hardin — American Old West character (1853–1895)
- 1901Shō Tai — last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom (1843-1901)
- 1905William-Adolphe Bouguereau — French academic painter (1825–1905)
- 1915Tevfik Fikret — Ottoman poet (1867-1915)
- 1923Vilfredo Pareto — Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
- 1928Stefanos Skouloudis — Greek banker, politician and diplomat (1838–1928)
- 1929Sergei Diaghilev — Russian art critic and impresario (1872–1929)
- 1932Louis Anquetin — French painter (1861-1932)
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