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Famous people born on August 19
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 19 include Bill Clinton (1946), Coco Chanel (1883), Matthew Perry (1969) and Willard Boyle (1924). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 19 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1596 (Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia) and the most recent is 1996 (Vitalii Skakun). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on August 19?
- Bill Clinton 1946 42nd President of the United States
- Coco Chanel 1883 French fashion designer
- Matthew Perry 1969 American-Canadian actor
- Willard Boyle 1924 Canadian physicist and inventor
- Satya Nadella 1967 Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
- Gene Roddenberry 1921 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
- Maurice Barrès 1862 French novelist
- Shankar Dayal Sharma 1918 President of India from 1992 to 1997
- Manuel L. Quezon 1878 President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
- Ian Gillan 1945 English singer
- Gustave Caillebotte 1848 French painter
- Georges Enescou 1881 Romanian composer and violinist
- Lothar Meyer 1830 German chemist and physician
- Christina Perri 1986 American singer-songwriter
- Queen Mette-Marit of Norway 1973 Queen of Norway (2026)
- Fred Thompson 1942 American politician and actor
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia 1596 Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia
- Cesare Prandelli 1957 Italian association football player and manager
- Veronica Roth 1988 American author
- Bernard Mannes Baruch 1870 American businessman
- Gilbert Ryle 1900 British philosopher
- Frank McCourt 1930 Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
- Salem Al-Dawsari 1991 Saudi footballer
- Kyra Sedgwick 1965 American actress
- Charles Bolden 1946 23rd Administrator of NASA and astronaut
- Nafissatou Thiam 1994 Belgian athletics competitor
- Nanni Moretti 1953 Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor
- Gintautas Paluckas 1979 Lithuanian politician
- Peter Gallagher 1955 American actor
- Francisco Fernández 1975 Chilean association football player
- Alessandro Matri 1984 Italian footballer
- John Stamos 1963 American actor
- Philo Farnsworth 1906 American inventor
- Ginger Baker 1939 British drummer
- Alan Baker 1939 English mathematician
- Almoez Ali 1996 Qatari footballer
- Jonathan Frakes 1952 American actor and director
- Johnny Nash 1940 American singer
- Roberto Abbondanzieri 1972 Argentine association football player
- Muhammad Mian Soomro 1950 Pakistani politician
- Brahim Ghali 1949 Sahrawi diplomat and politician
- Ahmed Best 1973 American actor
- Daina Taimiņa 1954 American mathematician of Latvian origin
- Ogden Nash 1902 American poet
- Fat Joe 1970 American rapper
- Yoshika Matsubara 1974 Japanese association football player and manager
- Martin Donovan 1957 American actor
- Melissa Fumero 1982 American actress
- Mary Joe Fernández 1971 American tennis player
- Richard Møller Nielsen 1937 Danish footballer and manager
- Sudha Murthy 1950 Indian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
- Maciej Rybus 1989 Polish association football player
- Maria de Medeiros 1965 Portuguese actress, film director and singer
- Saleh al-Arouri 1966 Senior leader of Hamas
- Jill St. John 1940 American actress
- Story Musgrave 1935 American physician and NASA astronaut
- Laura Tesoro 1996 Belgian actor and singer
- Joan Oumari 1988 Lebanese association football player
- João Vieira Pinto 1971 Portuguese footballer
- Kevin Dillon 1965 American actor
- Edmond James de Rothschild 1845 French art collecting member of the Rothschild banking family
- Luis von Ahn 1978 Guatemalan entrepreneur and computer scientist
- Johan Gottlieb Gahn 1745 Swedish chemist
- Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp 1883 Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Erika Christensen 1982 American actress
- Debra Paget 1933 American actress and entertainer
- Mordechai Spiegler 1944 Israeli footballer and manager
- Jerzy Andrzejewski 1909 Polish author
- Saeed Al-Owairan 1967 Saudi Arabian footballer
- Diana Muldaur 1938 American actress
- Sandro 1945 Argentine singer and actor
- Pablo Larraín 1976 Chilean film director, producer and screenwriter
- Wong Fei-hung 1847 Chinese martial artist and physician
- Fernando Gaviria 1994 Colombian Road racing cyclist
- Toshio Suzuki 1948 Japanese film producer
- Rúben Micael 1986 Portuguese footballer
- Joey Tempest 1963 Swedish singer
- Tracie Thoms 1975 American actress
- Stipe Miocic 1982 American mixed martial artist
- Frédéric Antonetti 1961 French football manager
- Banhan Sinlapa-acha 1932 Prime Minister of Thailand
- Reeva Steenkamp 1983 South African model and legal assistant
- Vitalii Skakun 1996 Ukrainian military figure
- Adam Arkin 1956 American actor and director
- Malcolm Forbes 1919 American publisher
- Romeo Miller 1989 American rapper, actor and basketball player
- Lindsey Jacobellis 1985 American snowboarder
- Hugo Gatti 1944 Argentine association football player
- Marianne Koch 1931 German actress
- Márta Sebestyén 1957 Hungarian singer of folk songs
- Apisai Ielemia 1955 Prime Minister of Tuvalu
- Tipper Gore 1948 Second Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001
- Saint Alphonsa 1910 Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 19 share the 19th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.