On this day: 19 February
Events, births and deaths on 19 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Umberto Eco
- Deaths · Harper Lee
- Deaths · Samuel Willenberg
100 years ago1926
- Births · György Kurtág
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 20
- 197(Julian date)Battle of Lugdunum — 197 battle between Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus (197)
- 1649Battle of Guararapes — 1649 battle between the Dutch and Portuguese troops
- 1811Battle of the Gebora — 1811 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1915naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign — 1915 naval battle
- 1937Yekatit 12 — massacre of Ethiopian civilians during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia
- 1942internment of Japanese Americans — mass incarceration, in the US, of Japanese during WWII
- 1942Bombing of Darwin — Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia during World War II
- 1942Executive Order 9066 — 1942 U.S. presidential order for the internment of Japanese-Americans
- 1943Battle of Kasserine Passe — 1943 battle in Tunisia
- 19651965 South Vietnamese coup — 1965 coup attempt in South Vietnam
- 1972Asama-Sansō incident — 1972 hostage crisis and police siege in Japan
- 1978
- 1985China Airlines Flight 006 — aviation accident
- 1985Iberia Airlines Flight 610 — plane crash on 19 February 1985
- 1988AVAir Flight 3378 — 1988 aviation accident
- 1989Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 — 1989 aviation accident
- 20032003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash — aviation accident
- 2006Pasta de Conchos mine disaster — 2006 methane explosion in Coahuila, Mexico
- 2012Apodaca prison riot — prison riot in Nuevo León, Mexico
- 20202020 Hanau shootings — shooting attack in Hanau, Germany
Births · 60
- 1473(Julian date)Nicolaus Copernicus — Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
- 1526(Julian date)Carolus Clusius — Flemish doctor and botanist (1526–1609)
- 1532(Julian date)Jean-Antoine de Baïf — French writer (1532-1589)
- 1594Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales — eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I
- 1717David Garrick — British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)
- 1743Luigi Boccherini — Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)
- 1821August Schleicher — German philologist (1821–1868)
- 1833Élie Ducommun — Swiss activist (1833-1906)
- 1859Svante August Arrhenius — Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
- 1865Sven Hedin — Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
- 1869Hovhannes Tumanyan — Armenian writer and public activist (1869–1923)
- 1876Constantin Brâncuși — Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876-1960)
- 1877Gabriele Münter — German painter (1877–1962)
- 1880Álvaro Obregón — Mexican politician, president of Mexico
- 1896André Breton — French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
- 1911Merle Oberon — British actress (1911-1979)
- 1917Carson McCullers — American writer (1917–1967)
- 1920Jaan Kross — Estonian writer (1920–2007)
- 1924Lee Marvin — American actor (1924–1987)
- 1924David Bronstein — Soviet chess grandmaster
- 1930John Frankenheimer — American film and television director (1930-2002)
- 1940Saparmyrat Nyýazow — President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006
- 1940Smokey Robinson — American R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)
- 1941David Gross — American particle physicist and string theorist
- 1943Tim Hunt — Biochemist; Nobel laureate
Deaths · 60
- 197(Julian date)Clodius Albinus — usurper and Caesar of the Roman Empire (c.150-197)
- 1445(Julian date)Eleanor of Aragon — Queen of Portugal
- 1553(Julian date)Erasmus Reinhold — German astronomer and mathematician
- 1605Orazio Vecchi — Italian composer
- 1709Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — The fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1646-1709)
- 1716Dorothe Engelbretsdatter — Norwegian writer
- 1799Jean-Charles de Borda — French scientist, political advisor and sailor (1733-1799)
- 1806Elizabeth Carter — English poet and polymath (1717 – 1806)
- 1837
- 1887Multatuli — Dutch author (1820-1887)
- 1897Karl Weierstraß — German mathematician (1815–1897)
- 1915Gopal Krishna Gokhale — Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
- 1916Ernst Mach — Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
- 1927Robert Fuchs — Austrian composer and music teacher (1847–1927)
- 1934Caleb Bradham — American pharmacist, inventor of Pepsi-Cola
- 1936Billy Mitchell — United States Army general during World War I (1879–1936)
- 1938Edmund Landau — German Jewish mathematician (1877–1938)
- 1945Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky — Russian artist (1868-1945)
- 1945John Basilone — American Medal of Honor recipient (1916–1945)
- 1951André Gide — French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
- 1952Knut Hamsun — Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
- 1957Maurice Garin — French cyclist (1871–1957)
- 1962Georgios Papanikolaou — Greek pathologist (1883-1962)
- 1969Madge Blake — actress (1899-1969)
- 1972Lee Morgan — American jazz trumpeter (1938–1972)
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