Anniversaries 19 February

Birth

Nicolaus Copernicus20

Renaissance mathematician, Polish astronomer, physician 1473–1543

Shivaji3

founder of Maratha Empire 1627–1680

David Garrick11

English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer 1717–1779

Evgeny Baratynsky3

Russian poet 1800–1844

Leonard Bacon2

American Congregational preacher and writer. 1802–1881

Nehemiah Adams4

Massachusetts clergyman 1806–1878

Jules Sandeau1

French writer 1811–1883

Zygmunt Krasiński3

One of Poland's three national bards 1812–1859

Georg Cantor27

mathematician, inventor of set theory 1845–1918

Carl Barus15

U.S. physicist 1856–1935

Charles Alexander Eastman2

American scouting pioneer 1858–1939

Constantin Brâncuși7

French-Romanian artist 1876–1957

Gabriele Münter24

German painter 1877–1962

Tobias Dantzig25

American mathematician 1884–1956

Kingoro Hashimoto3

officer of Imperial Japanese Army and politician 1890–1957

André Breton70

French writer 1896–1966

Fritz Heider6

German psychologist 1896–1988

M. S. Golwalkar5

second head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 1906–1973

William Grey Walter12

American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist 1910–1977

Carson McCullers45

American writer 1917–1967

Jean Mayer4

French-American scientist, university administrator 1920–1993

Dharampal3

Indian historian 1922–2006

Ross Thomas8

1926-1995 American writer 1926–1995

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy1

British historian 1926–2014

Camillo Ruini1

Catholic cardinal 1931

Choekyi Gyaltsen4

10th Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism 1938–1989

Heinz R. Pagels6

American physicist 1939–1988

Jeffrey Cohen4

1940

Smokey Robinson16

American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer 1940

David Gross6

American particle physicist and string theorist 1941

Peter A. Levine1

American psychologist 1942

Robert Trivers4

American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist 1943

Michael Mewshaw1

American writer 1943

Dan Fante4

American writer 1944–2015

Tim Shadbolt1

New Zealand politician 1947

Pim Fortuyn7

Dutch politician 1948–2002

Jerry Saltz3

American art historian 1951

Amy Tan89

American novelist 1952

Brent Budowsky12

American journalist 1952

Ryū Murakami25

Japanese writer 1952

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner9

Argentine politician and ex President of Argentina 1953

Eduardo Nevares2

Roman Catholic bishop 1954

Siri Hustvedt8

novelist, essayist, poet 1955

Helen Fielding23

British writer 1958

Laurell K. Hamilton261

Novelist 1963

Seal (musician)15

British singer-songwriter 1963

Jonathan Lethem6

Novelist, essayist, short story writer 1964

Jonathan Tropper38

American writer 1970

Bellamy Young4

American artist 1970

Immortal Technique51

American rapper and activist 1978

Jayde Nicole2

Canadian model, Playboy's Playmate of the Month January 200… 1986

Millie Bobby Brown3

British actress 2004

Death

Georg Büchner43

German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837

Karl Weierstrass1

German mathematician 1815–1897

Charles-François Daubigny6

French painter 1817–1878

Multatuli5

Dutch author 1820–1887

Richard Maurice Bucke9

prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century 1837–1902

Ernst Mach12

Austrian physicist and university educator 1838–1916

Georg Brandes40

Danish literature critic and scholar 1842–1927

Katharine Pearson Woods1

1853-1923 , author 1853–1923

George Howard Earle, Jr.13

American lawyer 1856–1928

Knut Hamsun22

Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952

Gopal Krishna Gokhale10

social and political leader during the Indian Independence … 1866–1915

André Gide74

French novelist and essayist 1869–1951

Edmund Landau7

German Jewish mathematician 1877–1938

Horacio Quiroga1

Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer 1878–1937

Isabel Bishop3

American painter 1902–1988

James Eastland30

American politician 1904–1986

Deng Xiaoping13

Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China 1904–1997

Michael Powell16

English film director 1905–1990

René Char4

20th-century French poet 1907–1988

Ernest Manning1

Canadian politician 1908–1996

Leo Rosten11

American writer 1908–1997

Charles Trenet3

French singer-songwriter 1913–2001

Armen Alchian11

American economist 1914–2013

Anthony Crosland17

British politician 1918–1977

Donald Richie1

American writer 1924–2013

Lionel Jeffries1

English actor, screenwriter and film director 1926–2010

Harper Lee142

American author 1926–2016

Stanley Wolpert1

American indologist 1927–2019

Friedensreich Hundertwasser10

Austrian artist 1928–2000

Frits Staal1

Dutch indologist 1930–2012

Mancur Olson3

American economist 1932–1998

Umberto Eco120

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016

Karl Lagerfeld57

German fashion designer 1933–2019

Nancy Willard1

American writer 1936–2017

Rosario Ferré2

Puerto Rican writer 1938–2016

Derek Jarman4

British film director and artist 1942–1994

Bon Scott15

Rock musician 1946–1980