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People who died on August 19 (various years)
2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer
1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer
1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor
1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher
1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter
1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal
1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author
1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter
1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor
1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect
1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
1 comments:
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