August 19

  • 1946 Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), born in Hope, Arkansas.

  • 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca (38), Spanish poet and playwright, was executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

  • 1917 Edward O’Dwyer, bishop of Limerick since 1886, best remembered for his public rebuke of General Maxwell (May 1916), died.