February 19
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February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of the year (316 in leap years).
Births [change]
- 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)
- 1733 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (d. 1782)
- 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
- 1798 – Allan MacNab, Canadian politician (d. 1862)
- 1799 - Ferdinand Reich, German chemist and physicist (d. 1882)
- 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)
- 1843 - Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (d. 1919)
- 1855 - Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1908)
- 1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
- 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish scientist and adventurer (d. 1952)
- 1866 - Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, American astronomer (d. 1962)
- 1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian writer and poet (d. 1923)
- 1876 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
- 1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
- 1880 – Alvaro Obregon, President of Mexico (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)
- 1895 - Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1895 - Diego Mazquiaran, Spanish matador (d. 1940)
- 1896 - Andre Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
- 1897 - Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
- 1899 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
- 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)
- 1922 - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Polish historian, publicist and politician
- 1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1928 – Nicolas Hayek, Swiss watchmaker (d. 2010)
- 1930 – John Frankenheimer, American movie director (d. 2002)
- 1932 - Joseph P. Kerwin, NASA astronaut
- 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 - Howard Stringer, former CEO of Sony
- 1942 – Paul Krause, American football player
- 1943 – Lou Christie, American singer
- 1943 – Tim Hunt, British biochemist
- 1943 - Robert Trivers, American sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist
- 1945 – Michael Nader, American actor
- 1946 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
- 1946 - Carolyn Maloney, American politician
- 1947 - Tim Shadbolt, Mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand
- 1948 – Tony Iommi, British musician (Black Sabbath)
- 1948 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
- 1949 – Dan Bunten, American software developer (d. 1998)
- 1951 – Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader
- 1952 – Danilo Turk, former 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
- 1960 - Leslie Ash, English actress
- 1961 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
- 1962 – Hana Mandlikova, Czech-born Australian tennis player
- 1963 – Seal, British singer
- 1964 - Jonathan Lethem, American writer
- 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
- 1973 - Eric Lange, American actor
- 1976 - Jahidi White, American basketball player
- 1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Andrew Buchan, British actor
- 1979 – Steven Cherundolo, American soccer player
- 1979 – Eva-Maria Bisschop, Belgian pop star
- 1980 - Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player
- 1981 - Vitas, Russian singer
- 1981 – Nicky Shorey, English footballer
- 1981 - Kyle Martino, American footballer
- 1981 - Beth Ditto, American singer
- 1982 - Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
- 1983 – Nick Zoricic, Canadian skier (d. 2012)
- 1985 – Haylie Duff, American singer and actress
- 1985 - Arielle Kebbel, American actress
- 1986 - Bjorn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian
- 1986 - Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver
- 1986 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
- 1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 - Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
- 1989 – Sone Aluko, former Aberdeen F.C. footballer
- 1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman Governor of Britain
- 1133 - Irene Ducaena, Byzantine Empress (b. 1066)
- 1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
- 1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
- 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)
- 1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
- 1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
- 1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (b. 1592)
- 1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
- 1716 - Yostos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. before 1690)
- 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)
- 1863 - Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1793)
- 1868 - Venancio Flores, Uruguayan general and politician (b. 1808)
- 1887 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
- 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)
- 1958 - Charles King, American athlete (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor (b. 1883)
- 1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary movie maker (b. 1898)
- 1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Bon Scott, singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
- 1983 - Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
- 1988 – Andre Frederic Cournand, French-born physician (b. 1895)
- 1994 - Derek Jarman, British movie director (b. 1942)
- 1996 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racing driver (b. 1924)
- 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)
- 2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 197 – Septimius Severus becomes lone Emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 1594 – Polish-Lithuanian King Sigismund III Vasa is crowned King of Sweden.
- 1600 - Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in a violent eruption.
- 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.
- 1884 - Over 60 tornadoes hit the Southern United States.
- 1915 – The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
- 1928 - The Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, end.
- 1942 – World War II: 250 Japanese warplanes bomb the city of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, killing 243 people.
- 1942 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Order 9066, leading to the moving of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
- 1945 – World War II: 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima)
- 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which it gains on August 16, 1960.
- 1976 - Us President Gerald Ford reverses Order 9066, which had to Japanese Americans being moved to internment camps.
- 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.
- 1985 - William J. Schroeder becomes the first person to both receive an artificial heart and be able to leave hospital.
- 1985 - EastEnders is first broadcast on the BBC. The programme runs regularly to this day.
- 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.
