19 October: today's birthdays

• Miguel Ángel Asturias - Guatemalan novelist, poet and dramatist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967. He wrote Mister President (El Señor Presidente) and Men of Maize (Hombres de maíz)
• Umberto Boccioni - Italian painter and sculptor, one of the most influential artists of Futurism
• Thomas Browne - English author
• Joe Bryant - American basketball coach and former player
• Lee Isaac Chung - American film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent. He directed the film Minari (2020). 
• Marsilio Ficino - Italian philosopher and humanist
• Michael Gambon - Irish actor
• Agnès Jaoui - French actress, screenwriter and film director
• John le Carré - English author of espionage novels, born David John Moore Cornwell. His most famous novel is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), written in 1963.
• John Lithgow - American actor, author, musician, and singer, born John Arthur Lithgow. He is best known for his role as Dick Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Auguste Lumière - French inventor. Along with his brother Louis Lumière, he invented the first movie projector
• Lewis Mumford - American historian and sociologist
• Ty Pennington - American television host
• Jason Reitman - Canadian actor, writer and film director
• Serginho - Nickname of former Brazilian soccer player Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva
• Wu Tianming - Chinese film director