On This Day — February 19
4081 noted people were born and 2128 died on February 19 in our archive, including Andor Kertész, Azriel Rosenfeld and Ernest Marsden.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 19
Andor Kertész
1929 – 1974
Azriel Rosenfeld
1931 – 2004
Ernest Marsden
1889 – 1970
Jennifer Doudna
b. 1964
Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet
1792 – 1871
Aleksandr Korkin
1837 – 1908
Alfons Verplaetse
1930 – 2020
Andrew Ross Sorkin
b. 1977
Axel Thue
1863 – 1922
Carl von Rokitansky
1804 – 1878
Carolus Clusius
1526 – 1609
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
b. 1953
Danilo Türk
b. 1952
David Gross
b. 1941
Dmitry Ananyev
b. 1969
Edward Stanton
1827 – 1907
Georg Cantor
1845 – 1918
Georges Teissier
1900 – 1972
Helmar Frank
1933 – 2013
Hermann Snellen
1834 – 1908
Hilary Cass
b. 1958
Ion Ciocan
1850 – 1915
Jaan Kross
1920 – 2007
Jan E. Jørgensen
b. 1965
Jeff Immelt
b. 1956
John Freeman
1915 – 2014
Julie Su
b. 1969
Klim Churyumov
1937 – 2016
Kyösti Haataja
1881 – 1956
Lidia Rudnicka
b. 1960
Luigj Gurakuqi
1879 – 1925
Marcia McNutt
b. 1952
Max Sørensen
1913 – 1981
Nathalie Bondil
b. 1967
Neil Siegel
b. 1954
Nello Carrara
1900 – 1993
Paul Ponomaryov
b. 1952
Pedro Malan
b. 1943
Peretz Lavie
b. 1949
Raúl Grijalva
1948 – 2025
Robert Trivers
1943 – 2026
Sverre Petterssen
1898 – 1974
Tim Hunt
b. 1943
Vladimir Sipyagin
b. 1970
Vladimir Veksler
1907 – 1966
William Fairbairn
1789 – 1874
Władysław Bartoszewski
1922 – 2015
Aaron Valero
1913 – 2000
Alberto Dines
1932 – 2018
Aleksandr Samarsky
1919 – 2008
Alexei Beketov
1862 – 1941
Alfred Harker
1859 – 1939
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
1939 – 2026
Alla Larionova
1931 – 2000
Allan MacNab
1798 – 1862
Anastasia Nichita
b. 1999
Andrew Dickson Murray
1812 – 1878
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
b. 1960
Anton Buttigieg
1912 – 1983
Antoni Subirà Claus
1940 – 2018
Arnljot Høyland
1924 – 2002
Art Leete
b. 1969
August Schleicher
1821 – 1868
Boris Pavlovich Belousov
1893 – 1970
Byron K. Lichtenberg
b. 1948
Béla Julesz
1928 – 2003
Camillo Ruini
1931 – 2026
Carina Bergfeldt
b. 1980
Charles Clermont-Ganneau
1846 – 1923
Charles Delucena Meigs
1792 – 1869
Charles Henry Darling
1809 – 1870
Charles Rivers Wilson
1831 – 1916
Christian Natterer
b. 1981
Claude Pascal
1921 – 2017
Cynthia Zukas
1931 – 2024
Cyrus Chothia
1942 – 2019
Damayanti Besra
b. 1962
Daniel Solander
1733 – 1782
David A. B. Miller
b. 1954
Dennis Wiersma
b. 1986
Eberhard Zorn
b. 1960
Eduard Georg von Wahl
1833 – 1890
Eduards Stiprais
b. 1969
Edward Beetham
1905 – 1989
Elvira Moya de Guerra
b. 1947
Errol Harris
1908 – 2009
Ferdinand Lumban Tobing
1899 – 1962
Florence Ita Giwa
b. 1946
Francis Otto Matthiessen
1902 – 1950
Frank Houben
1939 – 2023
Friedrich Althoff
1839 – 1908
Friedrich Hoffmann
1660 – 1742
Germán Vargas Lleras
1962 – 2026
Gherasim Rudi
1907 – 1982
Gunnar Hultgren
1902 – 1991
György Kurtág
b. 1926
Hans Grundig
1901 – 1958
Henning von Krusenstierna
1862 – 1933
Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
1861 – 1929
Herbert Rosendorfer
1934 – 2012
Hiroyuki Sonoda
1942 – 2018
Howard Hille Johnson
1846 – 1913
Hugo Portisch
1927 – 2021
Irena Šiaulienė
b. 1955
Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
1897 – 1944
Johan Pitka
1872 – 1944
Johannes von Kuhn
1806 – 1887
Johannes von Miquel
1828 – 1901
Jonardon Ganeri
b. 1963
Jonathan Lethem
b. 1964
Josef Duchač
b. 1938
Joseph P. Kerwin
b. 1932
José Eustacio Rivera
1888 – 1928
Józef Pieter
1904 – 1989
Karen Struthers
b. 1963
Keith Waller
1914 – 1992
Kenneth Offit
b. 1955
Kyrylo Wyshynsky
1967 – 2025
Lauren Anderson
b. 1965
Laurent Nuñez
b. 1964
Lav Agarwal
b. 1972
Lin Hwai-min
b. 1947
Louis Aubert
1877 – 1968
Louis Georges Gouy
1854 – 1926
Lugenia Burns Hope
1871 – 1947
Maciej Rataj
1884 – 1940
Malcolm Harbour
b. 1947
Marie Kruse
1842 – 1923
Max Bennett
b. 1939
Melvin Yong
b. 1972
Michel Ledoux
b. 1958
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
b. 1951
Murray McCully
b. 1953
Mário Henrique Simonsen
1935 – 1997
Máximo Etchecopar
1912 – 2002
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
Nikolai Tagantsev
1843 – 1923
Ole Wilhelm Erichsen
1793 – 1860
Padmanabhan Balaram
b. 1949
Paul Chiu
1942 – 2025
Paul Tournon
1881 – 1964
Peter von Köppen
1793 – 1864
Phil Gawne
b. 1965
Philip Hamburger
b. 1957
Pieter de Carpentier
1586 – 1659
Pim Fortuyn
1948 – 2002
Racho Petrov
1861 – 1942
Rainer Wieland
b. 1957
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
1900 – 1975
Reiner Haseloff
b. 1954
Renate Hellwig
b. 1940
Rick Barot
b. 1969
Risto Tuorila
b. 1947
Rob Macaire
b. 1966
Roderick MacKinnon
b. 1956
Rosana Alvarado
b. 1977
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein
1847 – 1910
Ryū Murakami
b. 1952
S. Stanhope Orris
1838 – 1905
Sam Abell
b. 1945
Saparmyrat Nyýazow
1940 – 2006
Selina Todd
b. 1975
Shirley Pearce
b. 1954
Siri Hustvedt
b. 1955
Solvita Āboltiņa
b. 1963
Sten Wåhlin
1914 – 1981
Svante August Arrhenius
1859 – 1927
Sven Hedin
1865 – 1952
Tadija Sondermajer
1892 – 1967
Terrence Prendergast
b. 1944
Tim Shadbolt
1947 – 2026
W. B. R. Lickorish
b. 1935
Walter Lewis McVey, Jr.
1922 – 2014
William B. Provine
1942 – 2015
William Dunlap
1766 – 1839
William Francis Ganong
1864 – 1941
William Frederick King
1854 – 1916
William Grey Walter
1910 – 1977
Wolfgang Lück
b. 1957
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
1878 – 1943
Ángel Cabrera
1879 – 1960
Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis
b. 1962
Abdul Gofur
1929 – 2024
Adreian Payne
1991 – 2022
Agnes Adler
1865 – 1935
Alessandro Sorte
b. 1984
Alexander Marmorek
1865 – 1923
Alexander von Sauerweid
1783 – 1844
Allan Boase
1894 – 1964
Alma Deutscher
b. 2005
Alpheus Spring Packard
1839 – 1905
Amber Kuo
b. 1986
Ambroise Louis Garneray
1783 – 1857
Amy Tan
b. 1952
Andries Treurnicht
1921 – 1993
Andries de Graeff
1611 – 1678
Andrzej Strejlau
b. 1940
Ann Olivarius
b. 1955
Antoine Ghonda
b. 1965
Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
1761 – 1840
… and 3,881 more
Died on February 19
Ernst Mach
1838 – 1916
Igor Shafarevich
1923 – 2017
William Browder
1934 – 2025
Anatoly Sobchak
1937 – 2000
Andrew Brown
1763 – 1834
André Frédéric Cournand
1895 – 1988
André Leroi-Gourhan
1911 – 1986
Bailey Willis
1857 – 1949
Carlo Francesco Gabba
1835 – 1920
Charles Pence Slichter
1924 – 2018
Edmund Hlawka
1916 – 2009
Frederick DuCane Godman
1834 – 1919
Georgios Papanikolaou
1883 – 1962
Gerard Krefft
1830 – 1881
Henri Patin
1793 – 1876
Jean Daniel
1920 – 2020
Jean-Charles de Borda
1733 – 1799
John Hulke
1830 – 1895
Jos van Kemenade
1937 – 2020
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
1842 – 1929
Karl Weierstraß
1815 – 1897
Michel Imbert
1935 – 2026
Milton S. Plesset
1908 – 1991
Nabor Carrillo Flores
1911 – 1967
Rafael Erich
1879 – 1946
Renato Dulbecco
1914 – 2012
Robert Coleman Richardson
1937 – 2013
Sir Henry Savile
1549 – 1622
Vladimir Wiese
1886 – 1954
William C. Boyd
1903 – 1983
William Warner Bishop
1871 – 1955
Adolf Hoel
1879 – 1964
Ahmed Hassanein Pasha
1889 – 1946
Alexander Davydov
1912 – 1993
Alexander Gillies
1891 – 1982
Alexander Winchell
1824 – 1891
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
1753 – 1839
Almir Gabriel
1932 – 2013
André Gide
1869 – 1951
Anthony Crosland
1918 – 1977
Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester
1563 – 1625
Boniface of Brussels
1183 – 1260
Cardon V. Burnham
1927 – 2005
Carlos de la Torre y Huerta
1858 – 1950
Celia Franca
1921 – 2007
Charles Harding Firth
1857 – 1936
Dale Gardner
1948 – 2014
Daniel Roche
1935 – 2023
David L. Bazelon
1909 – 1993
David Lance Goines
1945 – 2023
Deng Xiaoping
1904 – 1997
Dickie Davies
1928 – 2023
Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky
1861 – 1921
Dolors Aleu i Riera
1857 – 1913
Edvard Bergenheim
1798 – 1884
Erasmus Reinhold
1511 – 1553
Eric F. Goldman
1916 – 1989
Ewald Weibel
1929 – 2019
Fernando Morán López
1926 – 2020
Franco Burgersdijk
1590 – 1635
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
1706 – 1767
Frederick Funston
1865 – 1917
Frits Korthals Altes
1931 – 2025
Frédéric Masson
1847 – 1923
Fyodor Palitzin
1851 – 1923
Gabrielle Balicka-Iwanowska
1867 – 1962
Georg Brandes
1842 – 1927
Georg Gerland
1833 – 1919
Giulio Battistini
1912 – 2004
Grant Sawyer
1918 – 1996
Hanna Chubach
1941 – 2019
Hans Gram
1685 – 1748
Heather Couper
1949 – 2020
Henricus Regius
1598 – 1679
Henry Peyron
1883 – 1972
Ivan Wettengel
1876 – 1935
Jacques Curie
1855 – 1941
Jacques Poos
1935 – 2022
James Iley McCord
1919 – 1990
James W. Bagley
1881 – 1947
Jan Assmann
1938 – 2024
Jan Krysiński
1935 – 2025
Jane Cooke Wright
1919 – 2013
Johann Adam Schmidt
1759 – 1809
Johannes Hellner
1866 – 1947
John G. Linvill
1919 – 2011
John Grierson
1898 – 1972
John Howard
1913 – 1995
Joseph Lyman Fisher
1914 – 1992
José Antônio Pimenta Bueno
1803 – 1878
José Joaquín de Olmedo
1780 – 1847
Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch
1832 – 1888
Karl Lagerfeld
1933 – 2019
Karl Müllenhoff
1818 – 1884
Luke E. Hart
1880 – 1964
Marie Glázrová
1911 – 2000
Marie Jean Pierre Pie Frédéric Dombidau de Crouseilhes
1792 – 1861
Marie-Claire Bancquart
1932 – 2019
Marilyn B. Young
1937 – 2017
Melbourne McTaggart Tait
1842 – 1917
Michele De Franchis
1875 – 1946
Natalia Bessmertnova
1941 – 2008
Nicholas Roderick O'Conor
1843 – 1908
Nicolás Castellanos
1935 – 2025
Nirad N. Mohapatra
1947 – 2015
Otohiko Ichiki
1872 – 1954
Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent
1841 – 1908
Queen Halaevalu Mataʻaho, Queen Mother of Tonga
1926 – 2017
Ralph Flanders
1880 – 1970
René Imbot
1925 – 2007
Robert Brode
1900 – 1986
Robert Dollfus
1887 – 1976
Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña
1958 – 2024
Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing
1930 – 2009
Ruth Barcan Marcus
1921 – 2012
Souleymane Cissé
1940 – 2025
Sándor Liezen-Mayer
1839 – 1898
Tamerlan Aguzarov
1963 – 2016
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
1926 – 2018
Thomas Burgess
1756 – 1837
Trygvi Samuelsen
1907 – 1985
Umberto Eco
1932 – 2016
Valeri Kubasov
1935 – 2014
Violet Bonham Carter
1887 – 1969
Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas
1939 – 2024
Vitaly Vorotnikov
1926 – 2012
Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen
1822 – 1878
Washington Beltrán
1914 – 2003
Wilhelm Rein
1847 – 1929
Wilhelm von der Emde
1922 – 2020
William Albertson
1910 – 1972
William Hales Hingston
1829 – 1907
Władysław Semkowicz
1878 – 1949
A. Bruce Bielaski
1883 – 1964
Abel Vautier
1796 – 1863
Adelchi Negri
1876 – 1912
Adomas Jakštas-Dambrauskas
1860 – 1938
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
1863 – 1930
Albert Hertel
1843 – 1912
Alec Merrison
1924 – 1989
Alejandro Atchugarry
1952 – 2017
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin
1900 – 1989
Alexander Haggart
1848 – 1927
Alexander von Schleinitz
1807 – 1885
Alice White
1904 – 1983
Altamas Kabir
1948 – 2017
Anna Bugge
1862 – 1928
Anson Rainey
1930 – 2011
Antoni Kenar
1906 – 1959
Antonín Václav Šourek
1857 – 1926
Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary
1817 – 1867
Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt
1773 – 1827
Armand Silvestre
1837 – 1901
Arnold Mendelssohn
1855 – 1933
Arthur Frank Mathews
1860 – 1945
Arthur Lyttelton
1852 – 1903
Arthur Piper
1865 – 1936
Arturo Torró
1963 – 2025
Avraham Fahn
1916 – 2012
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
1883 – 1954
Begziin Yavuukhulan
1929 – 1982
Bert Van Hoorick
1915 – 2000
Billy Mitchell
1879 – 1936
Bruno Seidlhofer
1905 – 1982
Bruno Zuppiger
1952 – 2016
Caleb Bradham
1867 – 1934
Carl Ernst Bock
1809 – 1874
Carl Hehn
1821 – 1875
Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías
1955 – 2024
Charles Chauncy
1592 – 1672
Charles Clotsworthy Wood Taylor
1792 – 1856
Charles Guernier
1870 – 1943
Charles Hoff
1902 – 1985
Charley Taylor
1941 – 2022
Christoph Caskel
1932 – 2023
Christopher Stalford
1983 – 2022
Chuck Hardwick
1941 – 2025
Constantin Brun
1746 – 1836
Cyril Lloyd
1876 – 1963
Daniel Reed
1875 – 1959
David Boggs
1950 – 2022
David Bradley
1952 – 2022
David HaCohen
1898 – 1984
Derek Jarman
1942 – 1994
Dietrich Stobbe
1938 – 2011
Dmitry Bludov
1785 – 1864
Dominick Daly
1798 – 1868
Don Newcombe
1926 – 2019
Donald Richie
1924 – 2013
Dorothy McCullough Lee
1901 – 1981
Duane B.Simmons
1837 – 1889
Edmund Landau
1877 – 1938
Edris Rice-Wray Carson
1904 – 1990
Eduardo Cerda
1933 – 2025
Edward Henry
1850 – 1931
Emilio Chiovenda
1871 – 1941
Eric Dane
1972 – 2026
Ernest Manning
1908 – 1996
Etta Haynie Maddox
1860 – 1933
Eugène Hénard
1849 – 1923
… and 1,928 more