Famous People Who Died on August 19

• Aldiss, Brian (2017)

  The author of 'Frankenstein Unbound'

• Hewitt, Don (2009)

  Creator and executive producer of TV's 60 Minutes

• Lorca, Federico Garcia (1936)

  Spanish dramatist/poet who wrote Poet in New York

• Marx, Groucho (1977)

  The mustachioed leader of the Marx Brothers

• Pascal, Blaise (1662)

  17th century mathematical genius

• Pauling, Linus (1994)

  Vitamin C advocate and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize

• Proctor, John (1692)

  The first man executed in the Salem witch hunts

• Scott, Tony (2012)

  The director of the action hit Top Gun

• Watt, James (1819)

  Improver -- not inventor -- of the steam engine

See also: Born on August 19