On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
August 19 1968
Born on This Day
Akiyoshi Kitaoka🇯🇵
scientist · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
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Alessandro Matri🇮🇹
football player · b. 1984
Anke Brockmann🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1988
Anthony Muñoz🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Bill Clinton
politician · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Carl Wolmar Jakob von Uexküll🇸🇪
Swedish-German writer, lecturer, philanthropist, activist, philatelist and politician of Baltic German origin (born 1944) · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Chris Capuano🇺🇸
film director · b. 1978
Clay Walker🇺🇸
American singer · b. 1969
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Coco Chanel
deceasedActor · 1883–1971
Days lived
31,920
David Kimutai🇰🇪
Athletics competitor from Kenya · b. 1969
Dinara Nazarbayeva
Kazakhstani businesswoman · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Douglas H. Parker🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican legal scholar (1926-2019) · 1926–2019
Days lived
34,002
Edmond Privat🇨🇭
deceasedwriter · 1889–1962
Days lived
26,671
Eric Lutes🇺🇸
actor · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Erkki Miinala🇫🇮
Paralympic goalball player · b. 1986
Félina🇫🇷
singer · b. 1969
Frans Schollaert🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1851–1917
Days lived
24,055
Fred Thompson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican politician and actor (1942–2015) · 1942–2015
Days lived
26,737
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Frédéric Antonetti🇫🇷
French football manager (born 1961) · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Ginger Baker🇬🇧
deceasedBritish drummer (1939–2019) · 1939–2019
Days lived
29,268
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Gintautas Paluckas
Notable Trials · b. 1979
Hoodie Allen🇺🇸
singer · b. 1988
Ilse Thouret🇩🇪
deceasedGerman motorcycle racer (1897–1969) · 1897–1969
Days lived
26,086
Ion N. Petrovici🇩🇪
deceasedGerman neurologist (1929-2021) · 1929–2021
Days lived
33,422
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Jack Canfield🇺🇸
American writer and motivational speaker · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon🇫🇷
politician · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Jean-Pierre Mourer🇫🇷
deceasedFrench politician (1897-1947) · 1897–1947
Days lived
18,191
John Stamos🇺🇸
American actor · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Johnny Nash🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1940–2020
Days lived
29,268
Jürg Weibel🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer (1944–2006) · 1944–2006
Days lived
22,558
Karl Gero, Duke of Urach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman noble (1899-1981) · 1899–1981
Days lived
29,946
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami🇯🇵
Japanese baseball player · b. 1969
Kim Tae-gyun🇰🇷
film director · b. 1971
Kirk Cousins🇺🇸
American football player (born 1988) · b. 1988
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede🇩🇪
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Koba Zakadze🇦🇿
athlete · b. 1934
Days alive
12,419
Lee Won-woo🇰🇷
deceasedSouth Korean basketball player (1958–2004) · 1958–2004
Days lived
16,715
Luis von Ahn
Tech CEOs · b. 1978
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Manuel L. Quezon🇵🇭
deceasedpolitician · 1878–1944
Days lived
24,088
Marcel Regamey🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer (1905-1982) · 1905–1982
Days lived
28,067
Maria Berger🇦🇹
Austrian politician and judge · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Marianne Koch🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1931
Days alive
13,515
Mary Joe Fernández🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1971
Matthew Perry🇨🇦
deceasedAmerican-Canadian actor (1969–2023) · 1969–2023
Days lived
19,793
Milton L. Humason🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican astronomer (1891–1972) · 1891–1972
Days lived
29,523
Nanni Moretti🇮🇹
actor · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Nate Dogg🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1969–2011
Days lived
15,183
Orville Wright🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1871–1948
Days lived
27,922
Otto Fahr🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1892–1969
Days lived
27,951
Ottokar Runze🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film producer, director and screenwriter (1925–2018) · 1925–2018
Days lived
34,002
Paula Jai Parker🇺🇸
American actress and comedian · b. 1969
Peter Gallagher
Actor · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Peter Högl🇩🇪
deceasedSS officer (1897-1945) · 1897–1945
Days lived
17,422
Radovan Zogović
deceasedMontenegrin poet (1907–1986) · 1907–1986
Days lived
28,629
Róbert Szelepcsényi🇸🇰
Slovak computer scientist · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Romeo Miller🇺🇸
American rapper, actor and basketball player · b. 1989
Satya Nadella🇮🇳
Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Corporation · b. 1967
Days alive
366
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Sid Going🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand rugby union footballer (1943-2024) · 1943–2024
Days lived
29,492
Thomas Jones🇺🇸
American footballer player from the United States · b. 1978
Willard Boyle🇨🇦
deceasedscientist · 1924–2011
Days lived
31,672
Died on This Day
Anker Sørensen🇩🇰
deceasedDanish film editor and director (1926–2010) · 1926–2010
Days lived
30,789
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Beda Allemann🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss literary critic and essayist (1926-1991) · 1926–1991
Days lived
23,879
Blind Willie McTell🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1898–1959
Days lived
22,385
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Brian Aldiss🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1925–2017
Days lived
33,604
Claire Rommer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1904-1996) · 1904–1996
Days lived
33,493
Egon Bahr🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1922–2015
Days lived
34,122
Ernst van den Berg🇳🇱
deceasedDutch field hockey player (1915-1989) · 1915–1989
Days lived
26,923
Federico García Lorca🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936) · 1898–1936
Days lived
13,954
Felix Huby🇩🇪
deceasedGerman author and director (1938–2022) · 1938–2022
Days lived
30,557
Ferdinand Käs🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian soldier (1914–1988) · 1914–1988
Days lived
27,194
George Gamow🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1904–1968
Days lived
23,544
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Jacob Epstein🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican-British sculptor (1880–1959) · 1880–1959
Days lived
28,770
Jay S. Fishman🇺🇸
deceasedserved as chairman and chief executive officer of The Travelers Companies. (1952–2016) · 1952–2016
Days lived
23,299
Jean-Albert Grégoire🇫🇷
deceasedFrench racing driver (1899-1992) · 1899–1992
Days lived
34,011
John Warnock
deceasedTech CEOs · 1940–2023
Days lived
30,267
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Joseph Hill
deceasedsinger and songwriter for the reggae group Culture (1949-2006) · 1949–2006
Days lived
21,028
Karl Otto Götz🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1914–2017
Days lived
37,799
Linus Pauling🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican scientist (1901–1994) · 1901–1994
Days lived
34,140
Michael Malone🇺🇸
deceasedScreenwriter · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,125
Pierre Schaeffer🇫🇷
deceasedFrench composer and musicologist (1910-1995) · 1910–1995
Days lived
31,051
Rudolf Miele🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1929–2004
Days lived
27,317
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,233
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Hans Kelsen🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian lawyer (1881–1973) · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,427
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,904
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,077
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,774
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,347
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,789
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,755
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,389
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,833
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,485
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,284
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,798
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,816
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,485
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,837
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,380
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,290
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,267
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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