Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/19
- 1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet born
- 1631 - John Dryden, English poet born
- 1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer born
- 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet born
- 1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright, poet, and polemicist born
- 1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes) born
- 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author died
- 1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer born