February 19
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February 19 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining after February 19 until the end of the year (316 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
- 1626 – February 18/19 – Francesco Redi, physician (d. 1697)
- 1630 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
- 1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist (d. 1742)
- 1717 – David Garrick, actor (d. 1779)
- 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
- 1798 – Allan MacNab, Canadian politician (d. 1862)
- 1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1881)
- 1804 – David Wark, Canadian politician and Senator (d. 1905)
- 1817 – King William III of the Netherlands (d. 1890)
- 1821 – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
- 1833 – Elie Ducommun, Swiss journalist (d. 1906)
- 1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
- 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish scientist and adventurer (d. 1952)
- 1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian writer and poet (d. 1923)
- 1876 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
- 1877 – Gabriele Münter, painter (d. 1962)
- 1880 – Alvaro Obregon, Mexican President (d. 1928)
- 1888 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
- 1888 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
- 1893 – Cedric Hardwicke, British actor, director and producer (d. 1964)
- 1901 – Florence Green, British supercentenarian and last-surviving World War I service veteran (d. 2012)
- 1910 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
- 1911 – Bill Bowerman, American athletics coach (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
- 1916 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997)
- 1917 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
- 1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
- 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)
- 1924 – David Bronstein, chess player
- 1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1928 – Nicolas Hayek, Swiss watchmaker (d. 2010)
- 1930 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
- 1939 – Alfredo Bryce-Echenique, Peruvian novelist
- 1940 – Smokey Robinson, American musician
- 1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, former President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
- 1940 – Andrzej Strejlau, Polish footballer, coach and handball player
- 1941 – David Gross, American physicist
- 1942 – Paul Krause, American football player
- 1943 – Lou Christie, American singer
- 1943 – Tim Hunt, British biochemist
- 1945 – Michael Nader, American actor
- 1946 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
- 1948 – Tony Iommi, British musician (Black Sabbath)
- 1948 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
- 1949 – Dan Bunten, software developer (d. 1998)
- 1951 – Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader
- 1952 – Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia
- 1952 – Amy Tan, American novelist
- 1952 – Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican astronaut
- 1953 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994)
- 1953 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina
- 1953 – Conrad Murray, American doctor, Michael Jackson's personal physician
- 1954 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer and qualified physician (d. 2011)
- 1954 – Francis Buchholz, German musician (Scorpions)
- 1955 – Jeff Daniels, actor
- 1956 – Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist
- 1957 – Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)
- 1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor
- 1958 – Helen Fielding, British author
- 1960 – Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1961 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
- 1962 – Hana Mandlikova, Czech-born Australian tennis player
- 1963 – Seal, British singer
- 1965 – Michael Westphal, German tennis player (d. 1991)
- 1966 – Justine Bateman, American actress
- 1966 – Paul Haarhuis, tennis player
- 1967 – Benicio Del Toro, Puerto-Rican actor
- 1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Andrew Buchan, British actor
- 1979 – Steven Cherundolo, American soccer player
- 1979 – Eva-Maria Bisschop, Belgian pop star
- 1981 – Nicky Shorey, English footballer
- 1983 – Nick Zoricic, Canadian skier (d. 2012)
- 1985 – Haylie Duff, American singer and actress
- 1986 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
- 1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1989 – Sone Aluko, former Aberdeen F.C. footballer
- 1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
- 1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
- 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)
- 1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
- 1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
- 1716 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian writer (b. 1634)
- 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
- 1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French scientist (b. 1733)
- 1837 – Georg Buechner, German playwright (b. 1813)
- 1916 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
- 1936 – Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
- 1951 – Andre Gide, French writer (b. 1869)
- 1952 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (b. 1859)
- 1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
- 1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor (b. 1883)
- 1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary film maker (b. 1898)
- 1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
- 1988 – Andre Frederic Cournand, French-born physician (b. 1895)
- 1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader (b. 1904)
- 1998 – Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
- 2008 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong actress and singer (b. 1945)
- 2010 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Dietrich Stobbe, German politician and Mayor of Berlin (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian virologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1914)
[change] Events
- 197 – Septimius Severus becomes lone Emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 1594 – Polish-Lithuanian King Sigismund III Vasa is crowned King of Sweden.
- 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster to end the Third Anglo-Dutch War. As part of the deal, New Amsterdam is transferred to English control, leading to it being renamed as New York.
- 1771 – Charles Messier discovers the Messier 49 Galaxy.
- 1803 – Thomas Jefferson recognises Ohio as the 17th US State. This is only made official later.
- 1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama on charges of treason.
- 1819 – Explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands near Antarctica.
- 1845 – The US annexes Texas.
- 1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
- 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1915 – The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
- 1942 – 250 Japanese warplanes bomb the city of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, killing 243 people.
- 1945 – 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima.
- 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which it gains on August 16, 1960.
- 1978 – At least 10 Egyptian commandos are killed in a gun battle with Greek Cypriot soldiers at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus.
- 1985 – Iberia Flight 610 crashes near Bilbao, killing all 148 people on board.
- 1986 – The Soviet Union launches the Mir spacecraft.
- 1986 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern Province.
- 2001 – Foot and Mouth Disease is discovered at an abattoir in Essex, leading to an outbreak across the United Kingdom.
- 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is officially opened.
- 2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars, using its thermal imaging system.
- 2006 – A methane explosion at a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 people.
- 2008 – Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba. His brother, Raul Castro, succeeds him.
- 2010 – Chemical Element 112 is named Copernicium.
- 2012 – Iran suspends oil exports to the United Kingdom and France, in response to an embargo imposed by the EU.
- 2012 – Joachim Gauck is put forward as the main candidate to succeed Christian Wulff as President of Germany.
