List of Famous people born on August 19th

Adam Arkin is an American television, film and stage actor, and director. He is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards, and a DGA Award. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. He is also one of the three actors to portray Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck on Monk. Between 2007 and 2009, he starred in the NBC drama Life. Beginning in 1990 he had a guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. His father, Alan Arkin, and brother, Matthew, are also actors.

Matyas Szabo is a German sabre fencer. He is an Olympian, a world champion, and two-time European champion.

Francisco de Morais Alves, better known as Francisco Alves, Chico Alves or Chico Viola, was a Brazilian singer, one of the most popular in the first half of the 20th century, and considered by many to be the greatest in the country. The quality of his work earned him in 1933, by broadcaster César Ladeira, the nickname "Rei da Voz" . He recorded more than 500 78 rpm albums, among them the first electrical recording made in Brazil. He performed songs composed by musicians such as Cartola, Heitor dos Prazeres and Ismael Silva; and several songs became famous in his voice, like "Ai! que saudade da Amélia", or the first recording of samba "Aquarela do Brasil" by Ary Barroso.

Sergey Nikolayevich Ryzhikov, lieutenant colonel of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006. He is a veteran of two long duration space flights to the ISS.

Loïc Prud'homme is a French politician representing la France Insoumise. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing Gironde's 3rd constituency.

Alexis Raynaud is a French sport shooter. Competing in the 50 meter rifle three positions he won a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Toll Yagami is a Japanese musician. Known as the drummer of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1985. He is the older brother of Yutaka Higuchi, Buck-Tick's bassist.

Penélope Contrim Nova was an MTV Brazil VJ. She's a daughter of Marcelo Nova.

Michiel Patijn is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).