Anniversaries 19 February
Birth
![Nicolaus Copernicus photo]()
Renaissance mathematician, Polish astronomer, physician
1473–1543
![Shivaji photo]()
founder of Maratha Empire
1627–1680
![David Garrick photo]()
English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
1717–1779
![Leonard Bacon photo]()
American Congregational preacher and writer.
1802–1881
![Nehemiah Adams photo]()
Massachusetts clergyman
1806–1878
![Zygmunt Krasiński photo]()
One of Poland's three national bards
1812–1859
![Georg Cantor photo]()
mathematician, inventor of set theory
1845–1918
![Charles Alexander Eastman photo]()
American scouting pioneer
1858–1939
![Constantin Brâncuși photo]()
French-Romanian artist
1876–1957
![Tobias Dantzig photo]()
American mathematician
1884–1956
![Kingoro Hashimoto photo]()
officer of Imperial Japanese Army and politician
1890–1957
![Fritz Heider photo]()
German psychologist
1896–1988
![M. S. Golwalkar photo]()
second head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
1906–1973
![William Grey Walter photo]()
American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist
1910–1977
![Carson McCullers photo]()
American writer
1917–1967
![Jean Mayer photo]()
French-American scientist, university administrator
1920–1993
![Dharampal photo]()
Indian historian
1922–2006
![Ross Thomas photo]()
1926-1995 American writer
1926–1995
![George Michael Sinclair Kennedy photo]()
British historian
1926–2014
![Choekyi Gyaltsen photo]()
10th Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism
1938–1989
![Heinz R. Pagels photo]()
American physicist
1939–1988
![Smokey Robinson photo]()
American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
1940
![David Gross photo]()
American particle physicist and string theorist
1941
![Peter A. Levine photo]()
American psychologist
1942
![Robert Trivers photo]()
American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist
1943
![Dan Fante photo]()
American writer
1944–2015
![Tim Shadbolt photo]()
New Zealand politician
1947
![Pim Fortuyn photo]()
Dutch politician
1948–2002
![Jerry Saltz photo]()
American art historian
1951
![Cristina Fernández de Kirchner photo]()
Argentine politician and ex President of Argentina
1953
![Eduardo Nevares photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1954
![Siri Hustvedt photo]()
novelist, essayist, poet
1955
![Seal (musician) photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1963
![Jonathan Lethem photo]()
Novelist, essayist, short story writer
1964
![Immortal Technique photo]()
American rapper and activist
1978
![Jayde Nicole photo]()
Canadian model, Playboy's Playmate of the Month January 200…
1986
Death
![Georg Büchner photo]()
German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
1813–1837
![Karl Weierstrass photo]()
German mathematician
1815–1897
![Richard Maurice Bucke photo]()
prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century
1837–1902
![Ernst Mach photo]()
Austrian physicist and university educator
1838–1916
![Georg Brandes photo]()
Danish literature critic and scholar
1842–1927
![Katharine Pearson Woods photo]()
1853-1923 , author
1853–1923
![George Howard Earle, Jr. photo]()
American lawyer
1856–1928
![Knut Hamsun photo]()
Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient
1859–1952
![Gopal Krishna Gokhale photo]()
social and political leader during the Indian Independence …
1866–1915
![André Gide photo]()
French novelist and essayist
1869–1951
![Edmund Landau photo]()
German Jewish mathematician
1877–1938
![Horacio Quiroga photo]()
Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer
1878–1937
![Isabel Bishop photo]()
American painter
1902–1988
![James Eastland photo]()
American politician
1904–1986
![Deng Xiaoping photo]()
Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China
1904–1997
![Michael Powell photo]()
English film director
1905–1990
![René Char photo]()
20th-century French poet
1907–1988
![Ernest Manning photo]()
Canadian politician
1908–1996
![Leo Rosten photo]()
American writer
1908–1997
![Charles Trenet photo]()
French singer-songwriter
1913–2001
![Armen Alchian photo]()
American economist
1914–2013
![Anthony Crosland photo]()
British politician
1918–1977
![Donald Richie photo]()
American writer
1924–2013
![Lionel Jeffries photo]()
English actor, screenwriter and film director
1926–2010
![Harper Lee photo]()
American author
1926–2016
![Stanley Wolpert photo]()
American indologist
1927–2019
![Friedensreich Hundertwasser photo]()
Austrian artist
1928–2000
![Frits Staal photo]()
Dutch indologist
1930–2012
![Mancur Olson photo]()
American economist
1932–1998
![Umberto Eco photo]()
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic…
1932–2016
![Karl Lagerfeld photo]()
German fashion designer
1933–2019
![Nancy Willard photo]()
American writer
1936–2017
![Rosario Ferré photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1938–2016
![Derek Jarman photo]()
British film director and artist
1942–1994
