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Birthdays of Personalities on August 19

1398 : I¤igo L¢pez, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet (Comedieta de Ponza)
1521 : Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di Tutti)
1558 : Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian
1596 : Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I
1631 : John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love)
1646 : John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
1689 : Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
1743 : Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV
1756 : Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime
1780 : B‚ranger, writer
1785 : Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1815 : John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1816 : Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
1831 : Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 : Oskar Brefeld, German botanist
1844 : Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright (social evils)
1848 : Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)
1851 : Frans Schollaert, Belgian premier (1908-11)
1858 : Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
1859 : Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
1859 : Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer
1860 : John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
1870 : Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War)
1871 : Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers)
1878 : Manuel Luis Quez¢n y Molina, 1st president of Philippines (1935-42)
1885 : Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
1889 : Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
1890 : Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
1895 : Andrzejewski, writer
1895 : Arnoldt Bronnen, writer
1902 : Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
1903 : James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor)
1904 : Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1905 : Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
1906 : Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV)
1907 : Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
1909 : Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1910 : Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher
1913 : Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
1915 : Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
1915 : Ring Lardner, jr, writer
1918 : James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist
1919 : Malcolm Forbes, publisher (Forbes Magazine)
1920 : Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Cura‡ao painter
1921 : Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1922 : Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist
1923 : Erik Aalb‘k Jensen, Danish vicar/author (Perleporten)
1927 : James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
1930 : D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
1931 : Willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)
1932 : John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire
1933 : Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1934 : David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978- )
1935 : F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61, 80)
1939 : Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
1940 : Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
1942 : Michiel Patijn, Dutch asst sect of state of Foreign affairs (1994- )
1943 : Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rock vocalist (The Dakotas-Bad to Me)
1944 : Eddy Raven, Lafayette La, country singer (Right Hand Man)
1944 : Samuel J de Beer, S Afr vicar/underminister of Education
1945 : Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor)
1945 : Lan Gillan, rocker
1946 : Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60)
1946 : Dawn Steel, film maker
1946 : William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, 42nd US Pres (D, 1993-01)
1948 : Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore (1993-01)
1951 : John Deacon, British pop guitarist (Queen-Somebody to Love)
1953 : Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch MP (CDA)
1959 : Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker
1960 : Dan "Woody" Woodgate, rocker
1962 : Michael J Massimino, Oceanside NY, PhD/astronaut
1963 : Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1967 : Jason Starkey, son of Beatle Ringo
1967 : Tabitha Soren, San Antonio Texas, MTV reporter (This Week in Rock)
1972 : Elizabeth Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
2335 : William T Riker, Valdez Alaska, character on Star Trek Next Generation

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