19 August
Notable Births
Keegan Murray
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Thomas Flegler
b. 1999
Australian rugby league footballer
Florentino Luís
b. 1999
Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Yerin (entertainer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer and actress (born 1996)
Lachlan Lewis
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1996)
Nafissatou Thiam
b. 1994
Belgian athlete (born 1994)
Fernando Gaviria
b. 1994
Colombian road racing cyclist
Pio Seci
b. 1993
Fiji international rugby league footballer (born 1993)
David Rittich
b. 1992
Czech ice hockey player (born 1992)
Salem Al-Dawsari
b. 1991
Saudi Arabian footballer (born 1991)
Danny Galbraith
b. 1990
Scottish footballer
Romeo Miller
b. 1989
American rapper, singer, and actor (born 1989)
Kirk Cousins
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Veronica Roth
b. 1988
American author (born 1988)
Patrick Chung
b. 1987
Jamaican-American gridiron football player (born 1987)
Nico Hülkenberg
b. 1987
German racing driver (born 1987)
Sotiris Balafas
b. 1986
Greek professional footballer
Saori Kimura
b. 1986
Japanese former volleyball player (born 1986)
Christina Perri
b. 1986
American singer-songwriter (born 1986)
Lindsey Jacobellis
b. 1985
American snowboarder (born 1985)
Notable Deaths
Maria Branyas
d. 2024
American-born Spanish supercentenarian (1907–2024)
Vašo Patejdl
d. 2023
Slovak musician and composer (1954–2023)
Tekla Juniewicz
d. 2022
Polish supercentenarian (1906–2022)
Sonny Chiba
d. 2021
Japanese actor and martial artist (1939–2021)
Dick Gregory
d. 2017
American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic (1932–2017)
Jack Riley (actor)
d. 2016
American actor (1935–2016)
Samih al-Qasim
d. 2014
Palestinian Druze poet (1939–2014)
Simin Behbahani
d. 2014
Persian poet (1927–2014)
James Foley (journalist)
d. 2014
American journalist (1973–2014)
Candida Lycett Green
d. 2014
British author (1942–2014)
Donna Hightower
d. 2013
American singer-songwriter (1926–2013)
Edmund Skellings
d. 2012
American poet
Raúl Ruiz (director)
d. 2011
Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher (1941-2011)
Don Hewitt
d. 2009
American television news producer (1922–2009)
Levy Mwanawasa
d. 2008
3rd president of Zambia (1948–2008)
Mo Mowlam
d. 2005
British politician (1949–2005)
Carlos Roberto Reina
d. 2003
President of Honduras from 1994 to 1998
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
d. 2003
Brazilian UN diplomat and humanitarian aid officer (1948–2003)
Donald Woods
d. 2001
South African journalist and activist
Pierre Schaeffer
d. 1995
French musicologist (1910–1995)