Editing August 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Jan Fyt]], Flemish painter (d. 1661)<ref>[https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/29840 Joannes Fijt] at the [[Netherlands Institute for Art History]] {{in lang|nl}}</ref> 
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]], Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (d. 1674)
*[[1631]] &ndash; [[John Dryden]], English poet, literary critic and playwright (d. 1700)
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[John Flamsteed]], English astronomer and academic (d. 1719)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Eustace Budgell]], English journalist and politician (d. 1737)
*[[1689]] (baptized) &ndash; [[Samuel Richardson]], English author and publisher (d. 1761)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Richetti|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HqlJqJ8dUEC&pg=PA92|date=5 September 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42945-0|pages=92}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[Edward Boscawen]], English admiral and politician (d. 1761)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec]], French soldier and diplomat (d. 1781)
*[[1743]] &ndash; [[Madame du Barry]], French mistress of [[Louis XV of France]] (d. 1793)<ref>{{cite book|author=Erhard Breitner|title=Madame Du Barry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSoJAQAAIAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Cobden-Sanderson|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies|Francis I]], king of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)<ref>{{cite book|title=Companion to the Almanac, Or Yearbook of General Information for ....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdNAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA76|pages=76}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Harriette Newell Woods Baker]], American editor and children's book writer (d. 1893)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Derby|first1=George|last2=White|first2=James Terry|title=The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZToOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA154|edition=Public domain|volume=14|year=1910|publisher=J. T. White|pages=154–}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt]], Luxembourger-Dutch politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. 1894)
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Julius Lothar Meyer]], German chemist (d. 1895) 
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[Tom Wills]], Australian cricketer and pioneer of [[Australian rules football]] (d. 1880)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[C. I. Scofield]], American minister and theologian (d. 1921)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Luis Martín]], Spanish religious leader, 24th [[Superior General of the Society of Jesus]] (d. 1906)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Gustave Caillebotte]], French painter and engineer (d. 1894)
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Joaquim Nabuco]], Brazilian politician and diplomat (d. 1910)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Ellen Willmott]], English horticulturalist (d. 1934)<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48838|title=Willmott, Ellen Ann (1858–1934), horticulturist|last=le Lièvre|first=Audrey|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48838|access-date=2019-08-12}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Bernard Baruch]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Orville Wright]], American engineer and pilot, co-founded the [[Wright Company]] (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur George Renstrom|title=Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Reissue of a Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright, August 19, 1871|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hpI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|year=2003|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters|pages=1|isbn=9781467941402}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Fred Stone]], American actor and producer (d. 1959)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Manuel L. Quezon]], Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd [[President of the Philippines]] (d. 1944)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[George Enescu]], Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Strad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Gk9AQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Orpheus|page=259}}</ref>
* 1881 &ndash; [[George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd]] (d. 1954)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Coco Chanel]], French fashion designer, founded the [[Chanel|Chanel Company]] (d. 1971)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Amy De la Haye|author2=Shelley Tobin|title=Chanel: The Couturiere at Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGpAAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Victoria & Albert Museum|isbn=978-1-85177-119-6|page=7}}</ref>
* 1883 &ndash; [[José Mendes Cabeçadas]], Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th [[President of Portugal]] (d. 1965)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Grace Hutchins]], American labor reformer and researcher (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Whitman |editor1-first=Alden |title=American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary |date=1985 |publisher=H.W. Wilson Company |location=New York |isbn=9780824207052 |page=460}}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[S. Satyamurti]], Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[C. Suntharalingam]], Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1985)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Colleen Moore]], American actress (d. 1988)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Gontran de Poncins]], French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
* 1900 &ndash; [[Gilbert Ryle]], English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976)
* 1900 &ndash; [[Dorothy Burr Thompson]], American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001)