August 19

August 19 is the 231st (two hundred and thirty-first) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 232nd in leap years. There are 134 days left to end the year.

Events

• 43 B.C.: César Augusto appeared before the Roman Senate to be elected consul.
• 1561: Scottish queen Maria Estuardo, 18, returns to Scotland after thirteen years in France.
• 1612: In Lancashire, England, three women are brought to a court charged with witchcraft (Samlesbury witches).
• 1666: As part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Admiral Robert Holmes launched an attack on the Dutch islands of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships.
• 1692: in Salem (Massachusetts), a woman and four men, one of them a clergyman, are executed accused of witchcraft (Judges of Salem).
• 1768: In St.Petersburg (Russia) the Cathedral of Saint Isaac is opened.
• 1772: Gustavo III of Sweden performs a coup d’état, in which it assumes power and annuls the new constitution in which it divides the power between the Riksdag and the king.
• 1811: the Zitacuaro Board, the first governing body established by the insurgents during the Mexican war of independence, is established.
• 1812: Anglo-American War of 1812: US frigate Constitution defeats British frigate HMS Guerriere near Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1813: In Argentina, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins the Second Triumvirate.
• 1839: The French government announces that the invention of Louis Daguerre, photography, is a gift for the world.
• 1845: in Upper Normandy (France), a violent F5 tornado razes the village of Montville (Seine-Maritime), leaving 70 dead. Objects and debris from this village were found 40 km away.
• 1847: As part of the American War of Intervention, Padierna's battle takes place between Mexican and American troops.
• 1909: In Indianapolis (United States) the first car race is disputed.
• 1919: Afghanistan achieves the full independence of the United Kingdom.
• 1931: in Hankou, China, during the floods from July to November (in which about 4 million people will die), the waters reach their peak (16 m).
• 1934: the creation of the position of Führer is approved by the German people with a referendum with 89.9% of the popular vote.
• 1942: In France, in the framework of the Second World War, the Battle of the port of Dieppe is delivered.
• 1942. In the Soviet Union—in the framework of the Second World War—the Red Army launches the Siniávino Offensive, with the aim of breaking the Leningrad site.
• 1943: in Papua-New Guinea—in the framework of the Second World War—the allies take the Japanese fortified post on Mount Tambu.
• 1944: In France, during the Second World War, allies liberate Paris, France.
• 1945: August Revolution: Viet Minh (League for Vietnam Independence) led by HINO Chí Minh took possession of Hanoi.
• 1948: foundation of National Worker University which will later become National Technological University.
• 1953: In Iran, in the framework of the Cold War, the U.S. CIA and the British MI6 help overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq's government and reinstate Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi.
• 1960: The Soviet Union launches the artificial satellite Sputnik 5.
• 1960: In Moscow (Soviet Union), in the framework of the Cold War, the government decrees ten years of prison for espionage to Francis Gary Powers (American pylotus of the U-2 down).
• 1964: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:00 a.m. (local time) United States detonates its 4.4 kiloton Alva atomic bomb. It's the 380 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1976: in Jaén, Spain, more than 25 000 people manifest themselves in defense of olive groves.
• 1977: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:32 a. m. (local time) United States detonates its 0.2 kiloton Scupper atomic bomb (450 m underground), and at 9:55 detonates the bomb Scantling120 kt (to 701 m underground). It is the 892 and 893 of the 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1989: Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski appoints the Solidarity activist, Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
• 1989: hundreds of East Germans cross the border between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Pícnic, part of the events that contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
• 1989: In Colombia the government of Virgilio Barco declares the war to the Cartel de Medellín and establishes the extradition by administrative means, the kidnapping of drug trafficking goods and the pretrial detention without judicial charges of suspects of belonging to the narco-terrorist organization.
• 1991: There is a coup attempt in the Soviet Union in which a group of members of the Government of the Soviet Union briefly left President Mikhail Gorbachev and tried to take control of the country.
• 1998: Harare conference in which the President of the Congo, Laurent Kabila, manages to compromise the help of several other African countries to combat the rebels during the Second War of the Congo.

From X-Factor to be the best girlband of all time: Little Mix

• 2003: A bomb attack affects the UN headquarters in Baghdad (Irak), causing the death of 22 people.
• 2007: An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 in the seismological scale of magnitude (which replaces that of Richter) affects the Indonesian province of Papua and the Solomon Islands.
• 2010: The U.S. withdraws, two weeks before the planned, most of its Iraqi combat troops in what is considered the end of the war.
• 2010: Intel buys McAfee.
• 2011: in full competition of The X Factor, Jade, Perrie, Leigh-Anne and Jesy joined marking the birth of Little Mix.

Births

Iñigo López de Mendoza.

• 1558: Francisco I de Conti, a French nobleman (f. 1614).
• 1596: Isabel Estuardo, queen bohemia (f. 1662).
• 1646: John Flamsteed, English astronomer (f. 1719).
• 1689: Samuel Richardson, English writer (f. 1761).
• 1711: Edward Boscawen, British Admiral (f. 1761).

Madame du Barry.

• 1743: Madame du Barry, French courtier (f. 1793).
• 1829: Edward Moran, an Anglo-American painter (f. 1901).
• 1846: Luis Martín García, a Spanish religious (f. 1906).
• 1848: Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (f. 1894).
• 1849: Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer and politician (f. 1910).
• 1853: Alexéi Alexéievich Brusilov, General Russian (f. 1926).
• 1855: Linda Malnati, trade unionist, suffrageist and Italian writer (f. 1921)
• 1869: Isidro Goma, clergyman and Spanish writer (f. 1940).

Orville Wright.

• 1871: Orville Wright, pioneer of American aviation (f. 1948).
• 1874: Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, an Anglo-Canadian mycologist and botanist (f. 1944).
• 1874: Luis Ambrosio Concha Rodríguez, Chilean politician (f. 1953).
• 1878: Manuel Luis Quezón, lawyer, politician and Philippine president between 1935 and 1944 (f. 1944).
• 1881: George Enescu, director of the Romanian orchestra and composer (f. 1955).
• 1883: José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th president of his country (f. 1965).
• 1883: Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (f. 1971).
• 1883: Elsie Ferguson, American actress (f. 1961).
• 1883: Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Prime Minister of Sweden (f. 1954).
• 1889: Arthur Waley, orientalist and British synologist (f. 1966).
• 1896: Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (f. 1974).
• 1897: Roman Vishniac, an American photographer of Russian origin (f. 1990).
• 1900: Colleen Moore, American actress (f. 1988).
• 1900: Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (f. 1976).
• 1902: José Benedicto Luna Reyes, Filipino jurist (f. 1994)
• 1906: Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (f. 1971).
• 1907: Archie League, United States Air Driver (f. 1986).
• 1907: Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, historian, essayist and Indian critic (f. 1979)
• 1910: Alfonsa de la Inmaculada Concepción, Santa Católica (f. 1946).
• 1914: Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (f. 1955)
• 1915: Ring Lardner Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (f. 2000).
• 1916: Mariano Aguilar, a Spanish professor and politician (f. 1992).
• 1917: Eduardo Ferro, Argentine graphic humorist (f. 2011).
• 1918: Jimmy Rowles, American pianist (f. 1996).
• 1918: Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India between 1992 and 1997 (f. 1999)
• 1918: Julijan Knežević, Serbian Archimandrita (f. 2001)
• 1919: Joaquín Soler Serrano, journalist and Spanish announcer (f. 2010).
• 1920: Tito Gómez, Argentine actor (f. 2000).
• 1921: Gene Roddenberry, director and producer of the United States (f. 1991).
• 1924: Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, nobel physics award in 2009 (f. 2011).
• 1927: L.Q. Jones, American filmmaker.
• 1928: Gustavo Petriccioli, Mexican politician and economist (f. 1998).

Frank McCourt.

• 1930: Frank McCourt, an Irish-American writer (f. 2009).
• 1931: Roberto Ramírez Garza, Mexican actor (f. 2009).
• 1931: Bill Shoemaker, American rider (f. 2003).
• 1934: Ernesto Schiefelbein, Chilean professor and economist.
• 1935: Sun Axelsson, Swedish writer and journalist (f. 2011).
• 1935: Zahir Raihan, Bangladeshi writer and filmmaker (f. 1972)
• 1938: Washington "Canary" Luna, Uruguayan singer (f. 2009).
• 1939: Ginger Baker, British musician (f. 2019).
• 1940: José Luis Balbín, Spanish journalist.
• 1940: Jill St. John, American actress.
• 1941: Pedro Costa Musté, director of Spanish cinema and television (f. 2016).
• 1942: Jorgelina Aranda, actress, model and vedette argentina (f. 2015).
• 1942: Fred Thompson, a politician and an American actor.
• 1944: Charles Wang, a Chinese-American businessman.
• 1944: José Agustín, Mexican writer.
• 1944: Hugo Orlando Gatti, Argentinian archer, of Selection, of Boca Juniors.
• 1945: Ian Gillan, British singer, of the Deep Purple band.
• 1945: Ali Humar, actor and Colombian television director (f. 2021).
• 1945: Sandro, Argentinean singer (f. 2010).
• 1946: Charles Bolden, American general and astronaut.

Bill Clinton.

• 1946: Bill Clinton, lawyer, politician and U.S. President between 1993 and 2001.
• 1947: Tony Williams, British bassist, Jethro Tull band.
• 1947: Gerard Schwarz, trompetist and director of American orchestra.
• 1948: Tipper Gore, American activist.
• 1948: Gerald McRaney, American actor.
• 1951: John Deacon, bassist and British musician.
• 1951: Ana Miranda, novelist, poetess and Brazilian exactor.
• 1951: Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine composer and guitarist.
• 1951: Laura Bozzo, Peruvian presenter and lawyer.
• 1952: Jonathan Frakes, American actor and filmmaker.
• 1953: Nanni Moretti, actor, screenwriter and Italian filmmaker.
• 1953: Jorge Luis Inchausti Lamas, Uruguayan intellectual.
• 1954: Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing pilot.
• 1955: Peter Gallagher, American actor.

• 1955: Manolo García, Spanish singer, of the band El Ultimate de la Fila.
• 1956: Adam Arkin, American actor.
• 1956: Sergio Brio, footballer and Italian coach.
• 1957: Enrique Doger Guerrero, Mexican politician.
• 1957: Martin Donovan, American actor.
• 1957: Cesare Prandelli, footballer and Italian coach.
• 1957: Javier Lambán, Spanish politician.

Joey Tempest

• 1959: Ricky Pierce, American basketball player.
• 1963: Marcos Palmeira, Brazilian actor.
• 1963: Hector Pieterson, a South African student victim of apartheid (f. 1976).
• 1963: John Stamos, American actor.
• 1963: Joey Tempest, Swedish singer and composer, of the band Europe.
• 1965: Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and filmmaker.
• 1965: Kyra Sedgwick, American actress.
• 1965: Diego Frenkel, Argentine rock musician, former leader of the La Portuaria band.
• 1966: Lilian García, Spanish-American singer and model.
• 1966: Heloísa Périssé, Brazilian actress.
• 1967: Saeed Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer.
• 1969: Nate Dogg, American rapper (f. 2011).

Matthew Perry.

• 1969: Matthew Perry, American actor.
• 1969: Catalina Guerra, Chilean actress.
• 1970: Fat Joe, American rapper.
• 1971: Mary Joe Fernández, American tennis player.
• 1971: João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer.
• 1971: Jaime Ordóñez, Spanish actor.
• 1972: Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer.
• 1972: Sammi Cheng, actress and Dutch singer.
• 1973: Callum Blue, British actor.

Marco Materazzi.

• 1973: Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer.
• 1973: Mette-Marit of Norway, Norwegian nobleman.
• 1973: Roy Rogers, American basketball player.
• 1974: Fabiana García Lago, an Argentine actress.
• 1974: Tim Kasher, American singer-songwriter Cursive, The Good Life, Slowdown Virginia and Commander Venus.
• 1974: Ana Plasencia, a German journalist.
• 1975: Tracie Thoms, American actress.
• 1976: Pablo Larraín, Chilean filmmaker.
• 1976: Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician, of the Arcade Fire band.

Iban Mayo.

• 1977: Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist.
• 1978: François Modesto, French footballer.
• 1978: Sergio Sestelo, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: Percy Watson, American fighter.
• 1980: Paola Lattus, Chilean actress.
• 1981: Bethlehem Scalella, an Argentine actress and singer.
• 1982: Erika Christensen, American actress.
• 1982: Melissa Fumero, American actress.
• 1983: Mike Conway, British motor racing pilot.
• 1983: Missy Higgins, Australian singer.
• 1983: Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (f. 2013).

Daniela Herrero

• 1983: Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer.
• 1984: Kendo Kaponi, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
• 1984: Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer.
• 1984: Miguel Flaño, Spanish footballer.
• 1984: Javier Flaño, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Daniela Herrero, singer and Argentine actress.

Christina Perri

• 1985: Leyti N'Diaye, a Senegalese footballer.
• 1986: Ruben Micael, Portuguese footballer.
• 1986: Christina Perri, American pop singer and pianist.
• 1987: Nicolas Hülkenberg, German motor racing pilot.
• 1987: Richard Stearman, British footballer.
• 1987: Romero Frank, Peruvian footballer.
• 1988: Kévin Monnet-Paquet, French footballer.
• 1989: Romeo Miller, rapper, actor and U.S. basketball player.
• 1989: Maciej Rybus, Polish footballer.
• 1989: Alexandru Vagner, Romanian footballer (f. 2022).
• 1990: Florentin Pogba, Guinean footballer.
• 1990: Vincent Pajot, French footballer.
• 1991: Alberto Brignoli, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi footballer.
• 1992: Nikita Baranov, Estonian footballer.
• 1992: Feid, Colombian singer.
• 1994: Fernando Gaviria, Colombian professional cyclist.

Brighton Sharbino

• 1994: Jean Kaltack, Vanuatuian footballer.
• 1995: Junior Lacayo, Honduran footballer.
• 1995: Christian Lombardi, Italian footballer.
• 1997: Bartłomiej Drągowski, Polish footballer.
• 1997: Thibault Vlietinck, Belgian footballer.
• 1998: Dulce and Agraz, Chilean singer.
• 1999: Florentino Luís, Portuguese footballer.
• 2002: Brighton Sharbino, American actress.
• 2002: Svenja Fölmli, Swiss footballer.

Deaths

Cesar Augusto.

• 14: Augustus, the Roman emperor (n. 63 B.C.).
• 1186: Godofredo II, Duke of Brittany (n. 1158).
• 1245: Ramón Berenguer V, Count of Provence (n. 1195).
• 1297: Saint Louis of Naples, French religious (n. 1274).
• 1493: Frederick III, king of the Romans (n. 1415).
• 1580: Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (n. 1508).
• 1654: Yom Tov Lippmann, rabbi bohemian (n. 1579).

Blaise Pascal.

• 1662: Blaise Pascal, French physicist and mathematician, inventor of the hydraulic press (n. 1623).
• 1680: John Eudes, French priest (n. 1601).
• 1753: Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (n. 1687).
• 1790: Ignaz Franz, German theologian (n. 1719).
• 1808: Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, admiral and Swedish builder (n. 1721).
• 1822: Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and French astronomer (n. 1749).
• 1882: Juan Manuel de Manzanedo, a Spanish merchant and banker (n. 1803).
• 1883: Jeremiah S. Black, American politician and lawyer (n. 1810).
• 1889: Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (n. 1838).
• 1894: Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (n. 1835).
• 1895: John Wesley Hardin, outlaw and American gunman (n. 1853).
• 1900: Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (n. 1833).

Adolphe-William Bouguereau.

• 1905: Adolphe-William Bouguereau, a French painter (n. 1825).
• 1910: Gabriel Batllevell i Tort, master of Spanish works (n. 1825).
• 1912: Antonio Rodríguez Martínez (El Uncle de la Tiza), Spanish musician and composer (n. 1861).
• 1915: Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban doctor (n. 1833).
• 1918: Jaime Vera, Spanish politician (n. 1859).
• 1919: Friedrich Ludwig Christian Hanssen, German philologist and linguist (n. 1857).
• 1922: Felipe Pedrell, Spanish composer and musician (n. 1841).
• 1923: Vilfredo Pareto, economist and Italian sociologist (n. 1845).
• 1928: Stephanos Skuludis, a politician and a Greek banker (n. 1838).

Serguéi Diághilev.

• 1929: Serguéi Diághilev, Russian businessman, founder of the Russian Ballets (n. 1872).
• 1937: Joe Lydon, American boxer (n. 1878).
• 1938: Otto Nägeli, Swiss physician and botanist (n. 1871).
• 1944: William K. Boone, American philanthropist (n. 1875).
• 1944: Günther von Kluge, German military (n. 1882).
• 1945: Tomás Burgos Sotomayor, a Chilean entrepreneur (n. 1875).
• 1950: Giovanni Giorgi, Italian electrician engineer (n. 1871).
• 1954: Alcide De Gasperi, Italian politician (n. 1881).
• 1957: Julián Alarcón, composer and violinist Paraguayan (n. 1888).
• 1957: Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish American meteorologist (n. 1898).
• 1959: Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (n. 1880).
• 1959: Blind Willie McTell, American singer and guitarist (n. 1901).
• 1965: Andreas Madsen, explorer and writer Dano-Argentine (n. 1881).
• 1967: Hugo Gernsback, American writer (n. 1884).
• 1967: José Pérez Jiménez, Spanish painter (n. 1887).
• 1968: George Gamow, Russian physicist and astronomer (n. 1904).
• 1969: Alejandro "Patón" Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (n. 1912).
• 1970: Pawel Jasienica, journalist, historian and Polish soldier (n. 1909).
• 1973: Paul Aellen, Swiss botanist (n. 1896).
• 1974: Wifredo Ricart, Spanish engineer (n. 1897).
• 1975: Mark Donohue, an American motor vehicle pilot (n. 1937).
• 1975: Argentino Larrabure, an Argentine military officer kidnapped for one year (n. 1932).
• 1976: Alastair Sim, British actor (n. 1900).
• 1977: Groucho Marx, American actor and humorist (n. 1890).
• 1980: Otto Frank, German Jew, father of Anne Frank (n. 1889).
• 1981: Jessie Matthews, British actress (n. 1907).
• 1983: Ulyses Petit de Murat, poet, playwright and Argentine writer (n. 1907).
• 1986: Hermione Baddeley, British actress (n. 1906).
• 1987: Margot Moles Piña, Spanish sportsman specializing in athletics, hockey, swimming and skiing. (n.1910)
• 1992: Mario Pantaleo, healing priest and founder of the Work of Father Mario (n. 1915).
• 1993: Utpal Dutt, actor, director, writer and Indian playwright (n. 1929)
• 1994: Linus Pauling, American scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962 (n. 1901).
• 1995: Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (n. 1910).

Yuri Yappa

• 1998: Yuri Yappa, Soviet theoretical physicist (n. 1927)
• 1999: Rodrigo Riera, guitarist and Venezuelan composer (n. 1923).
• 2000: Luce Fabbri, anarchist italo-uruguaya (n. 1908).
• 2001: Betty Everett, American singer (n. 1939).

Eduardo Chillida.

• 2002: Eduardo Chillida, Spanish sculptor (n. 1924).
• 2002: Irving Copi, American philosopher (n. 1917).
• 2003: Carlos Roberto Reina, a Honduran politician (n. 1926).
• 2003: Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian diplomat (n. 1948).
• 2003: Aldo Zeoli, an Argentine military and astronautical engineer (n. 1916).
• 2006: Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan footballer (n. 1927).
• 2007: Carlos Trías Sagnier, essayist and Spanish writer (n. 1946).
• 2008: Habib Miyan, Hindu supercentennial (n. 1878).
• 2008: Levy Mwanawasa, Zambia's 3rd President, Zambia (No. 1948).
• 2009: Don Hewitt, American television producer (n. 1922).
• 2010: Sergio Castillo Mandiola, Chilean sculptor and academic (n. 1925).
• 2010: Blanca Curi, illusionist and tarotista argentina (n. 1950).
• 2011: Giff Roux, American basketball player (n. 1923).
• 2011: Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (n. 1941).
• 2012: Horacio Galloso, Argentine journalist (n. 1933).
• 2012: Tony Scott, British filmmaker (n. 1944).
• 2015: Antonio Larreta, actor, critic and Uruguayan writer (n. 1922).
• 2015: Lina Morgan, Spanish actress (n. 1936).
• 2018: Pedro Roncal, Spanish journalist (n. 1962).
• 2022: Tekla Juniewicz, supercentenary austro-Hungaria (n. 1906).

Celebrations

• World Birthday Day of the Brazilian Television System/World TV System and SS SBT groups.
• International Day of Photography.
• World Humanitarian Assistance Day
• World Day of Orangutan.
• Malaga (Spain): Anniversary of the Reconquista.
• IraqIraq: Anniversary of the Baghdad Tragedy
• AfghanistanAfghanistan: Independence Day.

Catholic saints list

St. John Eudes

• San Juan Eudes (optional memory).

Saints

• San Andrés de Cilicia and colleagues.
• San Badulfo.
• St. Bartholomew of Simero.
• St. Bertulfo.
• San Calminio.
• San Credan.
• San Donato de Sisteron.
• San Elafio de Châlons.
• San Ezequiel Moreno Díaz.
• San Flavio de Tolón.
• San Guenino.
• San Italo.
• St. July of Rome.
• San Luis de Tolosa.
• St. Magin.
• San Magno de Agnani.
• San Magno de Cuneo.
• San Magno de Aviñón.
• San Mariano de Entreaigues.
• San Marino de Besalu.
• Santa Mochta.
• Santa Namadia de Marsat.
• San Rufino de Mantua.
• San Sebaldo.
• St. Sixtus III.
• Santa Tecla de Cesarea.
• St. Timothy of Gaza.

Blessed

• Blessed Angel of Acquapagana.
• Beata Elvira Torrentallé Paraire and compañeras.
• Blessed Francisco Ibáñez Ibáñez Ibáñez.
• Beato Guerrico de Igny.
• Beato Hugo Green.
• Blessed Jordan of Pisa.
• Blessed Lion II.
• Blessed Luis Flores and colleagues.
• Blessed Michele Soriano.
• Blessed Thomas Sitjar Fortiá.