List of Famous people born on May 19th

Count Nikolay Vladimirovich Adlerberg, Councilor of State, Chamberlain, governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and Finland.

Claude Vignon was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres. During a period of study in Italy, he became exposed to many new artistic currents, in particular through the works of Caravaggio and his followers, Guercino, Guido Reni and Annibale Caracci. A prolific artist, his work has remained enigmatic, contradictory and hard to define within a single term or style. His mature works are vibrantly coloured, splendidly lit and often extremely expressive. Vignon worked in a fluent technique, resulting in an almost electric brushwork. He particularly excelled in the rendering of textiles, gold and precious stones.

Walter Henry "Doc" Snell was a pinch-hitter/catcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1913 season. Following this brief baseball career he became a successful mycologist who worked primarily at Brown University for the next 60 years.

Andrée Rose Godard, known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, (born19 May 1903, in Achères, and died 3 October, 1989, in Équemauville, Calvados. She was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.

Sir Dudley Digges was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1629. He was also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London. His son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia.

Andria Balanchivadze was a Georgian composer. He was the son of Meliton Balanchivadze, the composer, and brother of George Balanchine, the famous Georgian-American ballet choreographer.