19 July: today's birthdays

• Ferdinand Brunetière - French writer, historian and literary critic. He wrote Histoire et Littérature and Questions de critique
• Aleksandr Jakovlevič Chinčin (Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin) - Russian mathematician
• Francisco Coloane - Chilean author. He wrote Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out, Gulf of Sorrow, and The Whale's Path
• Benedict Cumberbatch - English actor, born Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch. He starred in Atonement, Amazing Grace and The Other Boleyn Girl. He was Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Sherlock (2010)
• Edgar Degas - French painter and sculptor, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
• Anthony Edwards - American actor and film director
• Atom Egoyan - Egyptian-born Canadian film director of Armenian descent
• Florence Foster Jenkins - American socialite and amateur soprano despite her poor singing ability
• Vladimir Vladimirovič Majakovskij (Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky) - Russian poet and playwright. He wrote Backbone Flute, Mystery-Bouffe and 150.000.000
• Herbert Marcuse - German philosopher and sociologist. He wrote Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
• Brian May - English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and astrophysicist, lead guitarist of the rock band Queen
• Freddy Moore - American singer-songwriter
• Jared Padalecki - American actor
• Robert Pinget - French writer, born in Switzerland
  
  
• Nicola Sturgeon - Scottish politician. Currently, she is the First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, born Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon
• Jonathan Ludovic Zebina - French soccer player