Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 19

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[edit] Births

• 1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
• 1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
• 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
• 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
• 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
• 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
• 1946 - Bill Clinton, American president
• 1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor

[edit] Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, (pictured) Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
• 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
• 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
• 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
• 1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
• 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
• 2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)