What happened on August 19 ?

14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)

1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)

1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)

1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)

1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)

1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)

1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)

1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian

1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)

1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)

1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)

1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)

1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)

1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)

1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)

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)

1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)

1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)

1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)

1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)

1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)

1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)

1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)

1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)

1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)

1970 - Pawe? Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)

1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)

1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)

1980 - Otto Frank, German writer and father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)

1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)

1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)

1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)

2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)

2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)

2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)

2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)

2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)