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2009 - 2000

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 2009 - 2000

200820072004
  • Google, an American search engine provider, is a well-known and highly-touted one. To google has become synonymous to to search. The New York Times article stated that "agerly-awaited trading of Google stock opened on the Nasdaq exchange this morning. It opened at $100.01 per share, approximately 18 percent above the $85 price in the company’s initial public offering on Wednesday, …

20032002

1999 - 1990

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1999 - 1990

199919981997199619941993199219911990

1989 - 1980

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1989 - 1980

1989
  • American actor and rapper.

  • American family of distinction, John Connolly's son was convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice. He also lied to the FBI

  • Romeo Miller

    American rapper and basketball player

198819871986198519841983198219811980

1979 - 1970

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1979 - 1970

1979197819771976197519741973197219711970

1969 - 1960

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1969 - 1960

19691968
  • Greek windsurfer and sailor

  • American singer who, together with Cindy Wasserman, makes up the Los Angeles-based vocal duo Dead Rock West. They play a variety of musical styles, including Americana and roots rock, country, folk-rock, and alt-country. They have released "It's Everly Time", a tribute album to the Everly Brothers.

  • American singer-songwriter

196719661965
  • Kyra Sedgwick

    American actress

  • Maria de Medeiros

    Portuguese actress and director

  • Kevin Dillon

    American minor actor. He is the younger brother to actor Matt Dillon. Kevin was discovered by an agent at the 1985 premiere of Matt's film "Tex". He entered the field at age 20 after abandoning his plan to study art. He is often seen in light roles, such as "Heaven Help Us", 1985, and "The Blob", 1988. However, he has …

1963
  • John Stamos

    TV Actor

  • French doctor, emergency medicine and union activist. He is well-known for his role in the 2003 heat wave (in august). He was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo Magazine. He reached the office shortly after the terrorist attack and could not save his colleagues. He was the one who alerted President FranASSois Hollende.

  • Marcos Palmeira
  • Hong Kong musician (Beyond).

196219611960
  • NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)

  • Danish-American football player

  • American mortgage broker, noted family, and the son of Sylvia Browne, a noted psychic, and Gary Dufresne, her first husband. His parents had been married since February 19, 1959. Paul's mom's spirit guide confirmed that he was conceived in Kansas City, KS on December 9, 1959 at 09:30 PM. He was born on the birthday of his father.

  • Italian illusionist and showgirl.

1959 - 1950

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1959 - 1950

1959
  • NBA guard / forward (Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks)

  • American Monegasque-born heiress and convicted killer

  • Stout, an American terrorist victim, was killed in the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001.

  • Turkish actress

  • heavy metal rocker.

1958
  • Centralia, Illinois -- Infielder (St. Louis Cardinals)

  • Jnr Scottish golfer

195719561955
  • Peter Gallagher

    Armonk, New York -- Actor. (Player. Summer Lovers. Dreamchild).

  • American skier, who was known as America's greatest downhill racer by 1976. She was selected to the 1972 Olympic team but she broke her hip and couldn't compete. She won the World Cup in 1974.

  • Screenwriter and actress from Australia

  • Baroness Scotland, Asthal Dominican-English lawyer, politician Attorney General for England & Wales

  • American manager and player

1954
  • Argentinian race car driver

  • American jazz musician. He is a flugelhorn and trumpet player. Stan Kenton was his mentor and he worked in Scandanavia from 1977 to 1978. Runar Enberg, Marianne Soderberg, and Marianne Soderberg have made a feature documentary about him called "Boogaloo Road".

19531952
  • American actor and director

  • His work centers on gay issues, especially spirituality, and he is an American writer, editor, and activist. He is also the author of "Gay Spirit", "Leatherfolk", "Gay Soul", and other books. He worked as a writer and photographer at the "Advocate" from 1975 to 1994.

  • American family of note, the son and daughter of Jean Hagan, actress who played Danny Thomas's wife for three years in "Make Room For Daddy." Two years younger than him, he has a sister Christine. Their parents divorced. His mother died of cancer on 8/29/1977.

1951
  • French politician who was Minister of Vocational Education in France from 2000 to 2002. He represented the dA (c)partement Essonne and was also a member the French Senate.

  • British pop singer (Queen-Somebody To Love)

  • American actress and model. She was raised on a farm and won a beauty contest when she was 17. The night before she set off for New York City, 8/28/1969, she lost her virginity. Her first layout for "Glamour" magazine was done the day she arrived in New York. She worked as a model and cover girl for $50-80,000 per …

  • Norwegian actress and model

1950
  • American musician and tenor sax player in Europe, Peter is an American musician. Peter is a veteran of Boston's jazz scene and taught at North Shore Community College and the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He met several top jazz musicians while touring central Europe in 1992. He moved to Bratislava in 1997 with Katarina, his wife. It was an …

  • English journalist and author

  • Indian social worker and author

  • Australian cricketer

  • Pavel TurnovskA1/2 is a Czech astrologer

1949 - 1940

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1949 - 1940

194919481947
  • American conductor. He was a former trumpet virtuoso at the first rank and he resigned in 1975 from the New York Philharmonic to focus on conducting. He is one of the most highly sought-after and busiest conductors in America, having made the transition from an instrumentalist to a maestro with success. He is known for his unique combination of precision …

  • English screenwriter and actor

  • American football coach and player (d. 2007).

  • French race horse jockey, a harnessed racer, and the brother to Jean-Claude.

  • American astrologer. He is also the head of a New York school. He settled a complaint with Securities and Exchange Commission in March 2002 without admitting or denigrating fault. A $15,000 fine was also paid as part of the settlement. Six press releases were issued in the case. The first, dated 10/12/01, details the whole case against 14 defendants, which …

19461945
  • British singer, musician and founding member of Deep Purple since 1969. Gillan was the original Jesus Christ, and the voice of the central character on the original recording.

  • Politician

  • Heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple, "Knocking At Backdoor")

  • Argentine singer & actor (d. 2010)

1944
  • French businessman and chairmain of the Casin Lucien BarriA're. His fortune was estimated at 700 million. Euro in 2009.

  • French journalist and writer. He is a novelist and biographer, as well as a literary columnist. In 2001, he was elected to the AcadA (c)mie FranASSaise. He won the Edouard Drumont literary award for his novel, "Grand Hotel Nelson" in 2010.

  • American professional basketball player. He is well-known for his smooth shooting. He was able to jump long distances and could shoot from the three-point line.

19431942
  • Fred Thompson

    He is an American politician, lawyer, and actor. He has not yet indicated whether he will run, but he did form an exploratory committee in June 2007.

  • Dutch Assistant Secretary to State of Foreign Affairs (1994-19)

19411940

1939 - 1930

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1939 - 1930

19391938
  • Diana Muldaur

    NYC, New York -- Actresses (McCloud and Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law).

  • American radio host

  • USSR -- Finn class yachtsman (1968 Olympics - Gold Medalist)

  • American politician who was elected as the first black mayor of Philadelphia. He inherits the city's problems with growth and management.

19371936
  • American priest theologian and academic (d.2015)

  • Astoria, New York -- Discus thrower (1956-60, 64, 68 Olympics, 68 Olympics, Gold Medalist).

1935
  • American surgeon and physician; NASA selected Musgrave for training in August 1967. Musgrave was involved in the design and development Skylab's space station. He flew first on STS-6, Challenger's maiden voyage, on April 4, 1983.

  • Boston, Massachusetts -- Doctor/Astronaut (STS 6 51-F)

  • American baseball player. From 1955 to 1966, he played for the New York Yankees.

  • Author and director from Bangladesh

1934193319321931
  • American jockey, who rode a record 40,350 races and won 8,833 horses, $123 million in purses, from his first race 3/19/1949 to his retirement in February 1990. His wins include four Kentucky Derbies as well as five Belmont Stakes. He is also known for his three Preakness Stakes. He is also the first jockey ever to win more than $100 …

  • French horse trainer and jockey. He was a harnessed trot racing driver who won the Prix d'AmA (c)rique in 1980 with A%0lA (c)azar).

  • Marianne Koch

    German actress, most well-known for her role as a spaghetti western star in 1964's "A Fistful of Dollars".

1930

1929 - 1920

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1929 - 1920

1929192819271926
  • An Italian journalist, who wrote numerous articles on the Vajont Dam. She exposed the dangers and condemned the officials for not taking adequate precautions. The Dam was built using such poor materials and care that Merlin's concern about the Dam's construction was proved to be valid when the Vajont Lake flooded, causing it to burst. A 250-meter-high wave swept away …

  • Dutch singer (d. 2000)

  • American venture capitalist

  • Angus Scrimm

    American actor and author (d.2016)

  • French journalist, reporter, correspondent for New York Herald Tribune, and spokesperson for the French Ministry of Information. Later, he held several jobs in connection with publication.

19251924
  • William Marshall
  • Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in academic Physics (d. 2011).

  • French cult leader, known as "the dictator", was a colleague of Luc Jouret who founded The Solar Temple Order, a cult with an estimated 300 members. They promoted a mixture of Catholicism and New Age psychobabel, as well as the apocalypse. Police found 23 bodies in the ruins of a Cheiry farm, 45 miles northeast from Geneva, as part of …

19221921
  • American writer, best known for his creation of the TV series "Star Trek", which ran on NBC for three years and 78 episodes. It was a cult favourite ten years later. The sequel, "Star Trek: The Next Generation," was a highly-rated drama series. The six original "Star Trek" films were launched together in 1979, and have earned more than $400 …

  • Strasbourg physician

  • Dominica -- Secretary General World council of Churches

1920
  • Composer

  • Patterson of Tibet is also known as a Scottish engineer and missionary. He served as a medical officer and diplomat for the Tibetan resistance movement during Chinese invasion of Tibet.

1919 - 1910

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1919 - 1910

1919
  • CEO of Forbes Publishing, dies from a heart attack at the age of 70 (born in 1919).

  • France Observateur was founded in 1950 by a French journalist. He was a television producer from 1959-1969, with nine specials on Times of the Cathedrals. In 1969, he founded the French Picture Agency. He also established the Star Auditorium as well as the Video Art Collection. He was the author and writer of many works, including "Portrait of the Adventure," …

1918191719161915
  • American screenwriter and journalist (d. 2000).

  • French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group, d. 1985).

  • Chicago, Illinois -- Screenwriter (Woman Of The Year)

  • French biographer, diplomat and woman of letters who died 29 March 2005.

  • Nancy Writer

1914
  • French socialist politician and Prime Minister of France, 1957.

  • He was the French Minister of Interior under General De Gaulle. He was also mayor of Vannes (Brittany). He is well-known for having censored Hara-Kiri Hebdo just after the death, on 16 November 1970. Hara Kiri decided to publish again, but under a new name. They chose Charlie Hebdo (23/11 1970).

  • Hungarian footballer, manager (d. 2005).

  • Costa Rican painter and writer. Children's literature emphasized the importance of writing.

  • Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)

1913
  • Dutch astrologer and author of Willem Koppejan’s Astrological Archives – International and Nederland & Vlaanderen, published 1996. He was interested in religion and astrology and was a teacher, writer, lecturer, and researcher in astrology.

  • United States -- Singer (Mills Brothers), dead at 70

  • Greek aeronautical engineer and one of the founders of the Finite Element Method (d.2004).

  • Indian-English soldier and author (d.93)

  • American choreographer and dancer who directed Elvis Presley’s dancing in "Jailhouse Rock" and also worked with Presley on three additional films. He died in September 2007. His life is the subject in the biography "The Man Who Made Jailhouse Rock: Alex Romero Hollywood Choreographer", by Mark Knowles (McFarland), 2013.

191219111910
  • English artist author/teacher, dies at age 86 (born 1910).

  • French musician and bassist, who also played with Duke Ellington.

1909 - 1900

Famous birthdays on August 19th for the celebrities who were born in the years 1909 - 1900

19091908
  • American film producer and scriptwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. His TV series "Father Knows Best", and his film "One Step Beyond" are notable. His films include "The Hitch-Hiker" 1953, "The Bigamist" 1954, and "Mad at the World” 1955.

  • A lieutenant-colonel in the French army during World War II was awarded the title of 'Compagnon de la LibA (c)ration' (English : Companion to the Liberation).

19071906
  • June Collyer

    Actress (June–Stu Erwin Show), Dies at 60

  • Beaver, Utah -- Inventor of electronic TV

  • French film director (Born in 1906)

  • American inventor and TV pioneer. His contributions were vital to the development of all-electronic TV. Perhaps his greatest achievement is the invention of the first all-electronic, fully functional image pickup device (video tube), the "image disector", and the first all-electronic TV system that works. Farnsworth was also the first to show such a system to the general public. Farnsworth created …

190519041903
  • French screen/stage/tv actor. Between 1930 and 1978, he was in over 130 films. Jean Nohain is his brother. He was married three times and had three kids. Dauphin was diagnosed with intestinal obstruction and died on 16th November 1978.

  • American author of 16 books and short stories. These include "S.S. San Pedro" (1931), "Guard of Honor" 1948 (which won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1949), and "By Love Possessed" 1957. He published "Confusion" (1924), his first novel at Harvard University in his sophomore year. His unexpected success was so overwhelming, he quit school to write. His work is known for …

  • American writer and astrologer who used a psychological approach to Humanist Astrology. She was the author of "Astrology: A Cosmic Science", "It is All Right" as well as "Minerva and Pluto, The Choice is Yours."

  • United States -- Novelist (1949 Pulitzer–Guard of Honor).

1902
  • French criminal and gang leader, sentenced to death in France.

  • Poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), died at 68

  • Limoux Writer

  • French director of film. He died 14 April 1990 at Cannes.

  • Filipino lawyer and jurist

19011900
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