August 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 19, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#106 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 19 birthdays
Maurice Barrès · French novelist1862
Bernard Baruch · American businessman1870
Manuel L. Quezon · President of the Philippines from 1935 to 19441878
Coco Chanel · French fashion designer1883
Philo Farnsworth · American inventor1906
Gene Roddenberry · American television screenwriter and producer1921
Willard Boyle · Canadian physicist and inventor1924
Frank McCourt · Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer1930
Fred Thompson · American politician and actor1942
Bill Clinton · 42nd President of the United States1946
John Deacon · British musician, bassist and songwriter1951
Peter Gallagher · American actor1955
John Stamos · American actor1963
Kyra Sedgwick · American actress1965
Satya Nadella · Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft1967
Matthew Perry · American-Canadian actor1969
Marco Materazzi · Italian association football player and manager1973
Christina Perri · American singer-songwriter1986
Nico Hülkenberg · Formula One racing driver1987
Veronica Roth · American author1988
On this day in history
1999In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2005Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
2010Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2017Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.
1955In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1960Cold 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.
1981Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
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