19 August
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Events which occurred on 19 August.
On Earth
- 1916 – J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith meet at Acheux.
- 1991 - Taum Santoski, who assisted Christopher Tolkien with The History of Middle-earth and wrote much of the base of The History of The Hobbit, dies of cancer at the age of 32.