August 19

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

Births:

• 1870: [Bernard Baruch]? (financier?)
• 1871: [Orville Wright]? (aviator?)
• 1902: Ogden Nash (poet)
• 1915: [Ring Lardner, Jr.]? (actor, screenwriter?)
• 1919: [Malcolm Forbes]? (publisher?)
• 1921: [Gene Roddenberry]? (author, producer)
• 1939: [Ginger Baker]? (drummer?, trumpet player)
• 1940: [Johnny Nash]? (singer?)
• 1946: Bill Clinton ([U.S. president]?)
• 1948: [Tipper Gore]? (wife to Vice-President Al Gore, author, activist for "Parental Advisory" labels on music releases)
• 1956: [Peter Gallagher]? (actor)
• 1963: [John Stamos]? (actor)
• 1965: [Kevin Dillon]? (actor)
• 1965: [Kyra Sedgwick]? (actress)

Deaths:

• 14: Augustus, emperor of the Roman Empire.
• 1662: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher died in Paris.
• 1819: James Watt, engineer

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