August 19
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Art and culture
- 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: five women and a clergyman executed.
- 1839 - Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy.
- 1969 - Audio editing, recording of Bitches Brew starts
Births
- 1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
- 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
- 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
- 1938 - Joe Frank, French-born American radio personality (All Things Considered) and humorist. (d. 2018)
- 1961 - Jonathan Coe, British author
- 1962 - Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
Deaths
- 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
- 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
- 1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
- 1905 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (b. 1825)
- 1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
- 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
- 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
- 1957 - Martin Donovan United States actor.
- 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
- 1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
- 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
- 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
- 1995 - Ferdinand Cheval, French postman and outside architect ("Ideal Palace") (b. 1924)
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