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August 19 | |
| 1870 | Birth date of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Advisor to FDR. (died 6/20/65) |
| 1902 | Birth date of Ogden Nash, poet and humorist. (died 5/19/71) |
| 1936 | Spanish playwright and poet Garcia Lorca is killed by Spanish Falangists. |
| 1945 | U.S. gasoline and fuel oil rationing ends. |