Famous people born on 19 August

• Coco ChanelFrench fashion designer · 1883–1971
  87 yrs
• John Dryden17th-century English poet and playwright · 1631–1700
  68 yrs
• Matthew PerryAmerican-Canadian actor · 1969–2023
  54 yrs
• Willard BoyleCanadian physicist and inventor · 1924–2011
  86 yrs
• Gene Roddenberry ↗American television screenwriter and producer · 1921–1991
  70 yrs
• Pierre-Jean de Béranger ↗French poet and chansonnier · 1780–1857
  76 yrs
• Robert I of France ↗King of West Francia from 922 to 923 · AD 860–923
  62 yrs
• Florian ↗Roman emperor · AD 232–276
  44 yrs
• Maurice Barrès ↗French novelist · 1862–1923
  61 yrs
• Samuel Richardson ↗English writer and printer · 1687–1761
  73 yrs
• Manuel L. Quezon ↗President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 · 1878–1944
  65 yrs
• Shankar Dayal Sharma ↗President of India from 1992 to 1997 · 1918–1999
  81 yrs
• Georges Enescou ↗Romanian composer and violinist · 1881–1955
  73 yrs
• Gustave Caillebotte ↗French painter · 1848–1894
  45 yrs
• Madame du Barry ↗French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV · 1743–1793
  50 yrs
• Lothar Meyer ↗German chemist and physician · 1830–1895
  64 yrs
• Edgar F. Codd ↗English computer scientist · 1923–2003
  79 yrs
• Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ↗Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia · 1596–1662
  65 yrs
• Fred Thompson ↗American politician and actor · 1942–2015
  73 yrs
• Bernard Mannes Baruch ↗American businessman · 1870–1965
  94 yrs
• Frank McCourt ↗Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer · 1930–2009
  78 yrs
• Gilbert Ryle ↗British philosopher · 1900–1976
  76 yrs
• Francis I of the Two Sicilies ↗King of the Two Sicilies · 1777–1830
  53 yrs
• Alan Baker ↗English mathematician · 1939–2018
  78 yrs
• Ginger Baker ↗British drummer · 1939–2019
  80 yrs
• Philo Farnsworth ↗American inventor · 1906–1971
  64 yrs
• Johnny Nash ↗American singer · 1940–2020
  80 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

← 18 August · All dates · 20 August →