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Anthony David Leighton Scott was an English filmmaker.
Notable Deaths on August 19
2012 — Tony Scott
English-American director and producer (born 1944)
August 19 has 90 recorded notable deaths across history, from 607 BC to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
90 source records
607 BC – 2024
Today in history
Major events on August 19
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- 1965 Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. Source
- 1964 Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics. Source
- 1903 The Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in East Thrace, resulting in the establishment of the Strandzha Commune. Source
- 1812 War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides". Source
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Linus Pauling is one of five people to have won more than one Nobel Prize.
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Utpal Dutt was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949.
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Trained in physics and mathematics, he became a polymath whose genius radiated into nearly all other major fields of knowledge.
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Alastair Sim began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
More major people who died on August 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1994
Linus Pauling
American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics.
1993
Utpal Dutt
Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (born 1929)
Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright.
1923
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian sociologist and economist (born 1845)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy.
1976
Alastair Sim
Scottish-English actor (born 1900)
Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
1580
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (born 1508)
Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.
2003
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Brazilian diplomat (born 1948)
Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years.
2008
Levy Mwanawasa
Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (born 1948)
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was a Zambian politician who served as the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008.
2009
Don Hewitt
American television producer, created 60 Minutes (born 1922)
Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which, at the time of his death was the longest-running…
1245
Ramon Berenguer IV
Count of Provence (born 1195)
Ramon Berenguer IV or V was a member of the House of Barcelona who ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier. He was the first count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years.
947
Abu Yazid
Kharijite rebel leader (born 873)
Abū Yazīd Makhlad ibn Kaydād, was a member of the Ibadi sect. He opposed the Ismaili Shia rule of the Fatimids in North Africa and sought to restore Ibadi dominance in the region.
2023
Václav Patejdl
Slovak musician (born 1954)
Vašo Patejdl was a Slovak musician and composer. He was best known for being a co-founder and long-term member of the pop-rock band Elán.
1493
Frederick III
Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor was Holy Roman emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome.
1085
Al-Juwayni
Muslim scholar and imam (born 1028)
Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī was an Iranian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time.
1506
King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)
Alexander Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty.
1944
Henry Wood
English conductor (born 1869)
Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms.
1967
Hugo Gernsback
Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (born 1884)
Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.
2014
Candida Lycett Green
Anglo-Irish journalist and author (born 1942)
Candida Rose Lycett Green was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things.
2014
James Foley
American photographer and journalist (born 1973)
James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in north-western Syria.
1457
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter (born 1421)
Andrea del Castagno, also known patronymically as Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla, was an Italian Renaissance painter in Florence, influenced chiefly by Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone.