19 August: today's birthdays

• Maurice Barrès - French novelist, journalist and politician. He wrote Le Culte du moi (The Cult of the Self)
• William Jefferson Blythe III - Bill Clinton's birth name, 42nd President of the United States. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Coco Chanel - Pseudonym of French fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel

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• Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel - French fashion designer best known as Coco Chanel

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• Bill Clinton - American politician, 42nd President of the United States, born William William Jefferson Blythe IIII. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton
• James Crichton - Scottish scientist, poet, linguist and mathematician, best known as the Admirable Crichton
• John Deacon - English musician, the bass guitarist of rock band Queen. He is the author of Another One Bites the Dust and I Want to Break Free
• Hippolyte Delehaye - Belgian Jesuit and historian
• John Dryden - English poet, dramatist, literary critic and translator. He wrote Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe
• Fernando Gaviria - Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, born Fernando Gaviria Rendón
• Pablo Larraín - Chilean film director and screenwriter, born Pablo Larraín Matte. He directed Tony Manero, Post Mortem, No, and The Club 
• Frank McCourt - American writer, born Francis McCourt 
• ​Jean-Luc Mélenchon - French politician born in Tangier. He is the founder of the The Left Party (Parti de Gauche)
• Stipe Miočić - American professional mixed martial artist. His parents are Croatian
• Liam Payne - English singer and songwriter, born Liam James Payne. He is a member of the boy band One Direction
• Matthew Perry - American actor best knows for his role as Chandler Bing in the TV series Friends
• Samuel Richardson - English writer and printer
  
• Gustavo Santaolalla -  Argentine composer
• Márta Sebestyén - Hungarian singer
• Kyra Sedgwick - American actress. She is Brenda Leigh Johnsonon the TV series The Closer
• Frédéric Vitoux - French writer and journalist