The 231st day of the year, the 232nd in a leap year
Born on 19 August
Every 19 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 19 August in any year.
Which weekday 19 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 August falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 19 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,831 babies were born on 19 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 125th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 19 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Clinton | 1946– | 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001) |
| Coco Chanel | 1883–1971 | French fashion designer |
| John Dryden | 1631–1700 | 17th-century English poet and playwright |
| Matthew Perry | 1969–2023 | American-Canadian actor |
| Willard Boyle | 1924–2011 | Canadian physicist and inventor |
| Satya Nadella | 1967– | Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft |
| Gene Roddenberry | 1921–1991 | American television screenwriter and producer |
| John Deacon | 1951– | British musician, bassist and songwriter |
| Marco Materazzi | 1973– | Italian association football player and manager |
| Nico Hülkenberg | 1987– | Formula One racing driver |
| John Flamsteed | 1646–1719 | English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal; born 19 August in the Julian calendar, which is 29 August in the Gregorian |
| Manuel L. Quezon | 1878–1944 | President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 |
| Ian Gillan | 1945– | English singer |
| Madame du Barry | 1743–1793 | French noblewoman by marriage, last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774) |
| Gustave Caillebotte | 1848–1894 | French painter |
| George Enescu | 1881–1955 | Romanian composer and violinist |
| Lothar Meyer | 1830–1895 | German chemist and physician |
| Christina Perri | 1986– | American singer-songwriter |
Died on 19 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | 1623–1662 | French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898–1936 | Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer |
| Linus Pauling | 1901–1994 | American scientist |
| Groucho Marx | 1890–1977 | American comedian |
| Vilfredo Pareto | 1848–1923 | Italian economist and sociologist |
| Andrea Palladio | 1508–1580 | Italian architect |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1881–1954 | Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party |
| Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor | 1415–1493 | Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493) |
| George Gamow | 1904–1968 | Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist |
| Tony Scott | 1944–2012 | British film director and producer |
| Brian Aldiss | 1925–2017 | British science fiction writer |
| Sergei Diaghilev | 1872–1929 | Russian art critic and impresario |
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