Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of February 19:
0003 Sadiq Hidajat Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 Nicolaus Copernicus Torún, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
1532 Jean-Antoine de Baïf French poet (Les amours de Méline)
1588 Pieter de Carpentier Flemish Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies
1611 Andries de Graeff mayor of Amsterdam (1657-71)
1616 Jacques de Saint-Luc composer
1671 Charles-Hubert Gervais composer
1683 King Philip V France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1687 Johann Adam Birkenstock composer
1717 David Garrick actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
1743 [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
1751 Cornelis de Gijselaar Dutch politician/patriot
1754 Vincenzo Monti Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)
1755 Pieter G van Overstraten Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies
1762 Friedrich Franz Hurka composer
1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz composer
1780 Friedrich H von der Hagen German germanist (Nibelungenlied)
1812 Lauro Rossi composer
1817 Willem III last male King of Netherlands (1849-90)
1819 Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
1821 Francis Preston Blair Jr Lexington KY, (Representative-Missouri)
1824 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator
1827 Charles Robert Woods Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
1828 Johannes von Miquel German politician
1833 Élie Ducommun Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902)
1841 Felipe Pedrell composer
1843 Adelina Patti Madrid Spain, operatic coloratura (Lucia)
1859 Svante August Arhenius Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1863 Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo President of Perú (1908, 1919)
1863 Emanuel Moor composer
1864 Aritius S Talma Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)
1865 Adrian van Oordt Dutch writer (neo-romantic)
1865 Sven Hedin Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
1877 Else Berg German/Dutch painter
1877 Louis François-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera)
1880 Arthur Shepherd composer
1881 Armin Knab German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
1881 Evert Gorter founder of Dutch medical child care
1881 Paul Zech writer
1886 George Luther Foote composer
1889 José Eustasio Rivera Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
1891 J C "Farmer" White cricketer (Somerset slow lefty 1909-37)
1893 Cedric Hardwicke Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
1893 Pietro Pancrazi Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
1894 Herb Pennock hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career win)
1895 Louis Calhern New York NY, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
1898 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader
19-- Clay Anthony rocker (Junkyard-Blooze Hot Rod)
1900 Giorgos Seferis writer
1901 Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
1902 Nydia Westman New York NY, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
1902 Hugo Haas Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People)
1902 John Bubbles Louisville KY, rhythm tap dancer (No Maps on My Taps)
1903 Kay Boyle St Paul MN, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
1904 Havank [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache)
1906 Grace Mary Williams composer
1906 Hendrik W C Spruit Dutch conductor
1909 Charlie Walker South Australia cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
1911 Merle Oberon Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1911 Nikola Hercigonja composer
1912 Adolf Rudnicki Polish writer (Niekochana)
1912 Peter Francis de Sautoy publisher
1912 Stan Kenton [Newcomb], Wichita KS, jazz musician/orchestra leader (Music 55)
1913 Alvin Derold Etler composer
1915 John Freeman British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host
1916 Eddie Arcaro jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
1917 Carson McCullers US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1920 George Rose Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
1920 Frances K Bairstow educator/labor relations consultant
1921 Andries Treurnicht [Dr No], founder (South Africa Conservative Party)
1921 Claude Rene Georges Pascal composer
1922 Beant Singh politician
1922 Josef Matej composer
1923 Donald Lybbert composer
1924 Lee Marvin New York NY, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
1924 Bruce Norris NHL owner (Detroit Red Wings)
1925 Jindrich Feld composer
1925 Leslie Laing Linstead Jamaica, 4X400 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1952)
1926 Gyorgy Kurtag composer
1927 Rene Firino-Martell cognac manufacturer
1930 John Frankenheimer New York NY, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
1932 Joseph P Kerwin Oak Park IL, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut (Skylab 2)
1934 David Hugh Jones Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
1934 Julian Belfrage theatre Agent
1936 Bob Engemann singer
1936 Ione Mylonas Shear archeologist
1937 Norman O'Neill cricketer (great Aussie bat of 60's Brilliant field)
1938 Penny Zavichas LPGA golfer
1939 Gwen Taylor British actress (Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming)
1940 William "Smokey" Robinson Detroit MI, singer (& the Miracles-Being With You)
1940 Bobby Rogers US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me)
1940 Carlin Glynn US actress (Continental Divide)
1941 Carlos Roque Alsina composer
1941 Stephen Dobyns US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup)
1942 Kenneth R Kramer (Representative-R-CO, 1979- )
1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1943 Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Pennsylvania, rock vocalist (Lightning Striking Again)
1944 Jan Bart Klaster mythologist (Slogan)
1945 Jon Whiteley actor (Moonfleet)
1945 Michael Nader actor (Dynasty, All My Children)
1945 Thomas Brasch writer
1946 Paul Dean rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy)
1946 Pierre van der Linden Dutch drummer (Brainbox)
1947 Peter Bird ocean rower
1948 Byron K Lichtenburg Stroudsburg PA, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
1948 Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
1948 Mark Andes Philadelphia PA, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
1949 Edward Hardin New York NY, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1949 Ewa Aulin Stockholm, actress (Candy)
1950 Andy Powell rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1951 Stephen Nichols Cincinnati OH, actor (Witchboard, Days of our Lives)
1952 Rudolfo Neri-Vela Chilpancing Mexico, PhD/astronaut (STS 23)
1953 Bill Kirchenbauer actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
1954 Frances Bucholz rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1954 Jamie West-Oram rock guitarist (Fixx)
1955 Margaux Hemingway Portland OR, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
1955 Jeff Daniels Chelsea MI, actor (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Speed)
1956 George David Low Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
1956 Dave Wakeling rock singer/guitarist
1956 Peter Holsapple rocker (Continental Drifters)
1956 Steve Randell Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
1957 Dave "Smoke" Stewart Oakland CA, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
1957 Falco [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
1957 Paul Dean guitarist
1960 Holly Johnson England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
1960 Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi South Africa head (Inkatha Youth Brigade)
1960 Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
1960 Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola KS, playmate (February 1981)
1962 Alvaro Espinoza Venezuela, baseball shortstop (New York Yankees, New York Mets)
1962 Hana Mandlikova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
1963 Jessica Tuck New York NY, actress (Megan-One Life to Live)
1963 Seal English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)
1964 Doug Aldrich rocker
1965 Andrew Jameson British swimmer
1965 John Commins cricketer (South African Test batsman vs New Zealand 1994-95)
1966 Justine Bateman Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
1966 Prince Markie D [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 Matthew Ryan Port Jefferson NY, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1966 Paul Haarhuis Eindhoven Netherlands, tennis star (1994 US/Australian doubles)
1966 Peter Douris Toronto, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 William White NFL safety (Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons)
1967 Benicio Del Toro Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)
1967 Roel Liefden soccer player (Dordrecht '90, FC Groningen)
1968 Frank Watkins US heavy metal bassist (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1968 Rob Dimaio Calgary, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers)
1970 Garland Hawkins NFL defensive end (Chicago Bears)
1970 Ruwan Kalpage cricket off-spinner (Sri Lankan)
1971 Becca Lee Tennessee, Miss Tennessee-USA (1996-3rd)
1971 Becky Dyroen-Lancer San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Glyn Milburn NFL running back/kick returner (Den Broncos, Detroit Lions)
1971 Richard Green Australasia golfer
1971 Wally Williams NFL center/guard (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 William Henderson NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Andrey Pchelyakov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1973 Masafumi Kawaguchi WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Terrence Rencher NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1973 Tommy Bennett safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Sochi Russia, tennis star (1995 doubles-Hamburg)
1975 Paul Frey Boston MA, dance skater (& Ponte-1995 Eastern Jr champion)
1975 Raymond Graanoogst Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1989 L A Baby orangutan at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle WA
Deaths which occurred on February 19:
0197 D Clodius Septimus Albinus Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
1260 Boniface of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
1401 William Sawtree 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
1414 Thomas Arundel archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
1545 Pierre Brully [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
1553 Erasmus Reinhold German mathematician, dies at 41
1568 Miles Coverdale translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80
1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer, dies at 54
1620 Roemer P Visscher poet, buried in Amsterdam
1653 Luigi Rossi composer, dies
1785 Johann Christoph Richter composer, dies at 84
1790 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer, dies at 47
1815 Leonhard von Call composer, dies at 47
1822 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima composer, dies at 78
1837 Georg Büchner German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23
1858 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini composer, dies at 78
1864 William Edwin Baldwin US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies
1875 Jean B Vuillaume French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1878 Charles F Daubigny French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61
1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
1892 Monty Bowden cricket Captain (England vs South Africa 1889), dies at 26
1894 Ernesto Camillo Sivori composer, dies at 78
1897 Karl T Weierstrass German mathematician, dies at 81
1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale India's social reformer/politician, dies
1916 Ernst Mach Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
1923 Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido composer, dies at 68
1927 Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85
1927 Robert Fuchs composer, dies at 80
1933 Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, dies at 77
1941 Alexander Josiah Webbe English cricket keeper (v Australia 1879), dies
1941 Hamilton Hamilton Harty composer/conductor, dies at 61
1944 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg composer, dies at 76
1945 Wim Speelman Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26
1949 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx composer, dies at 83
1950 Edyth Walker US singer, dies at 82
1951 André[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide French writer (Nobel 1947), dies at 81
1952 Knut Hamsun writer, dies at 92
1952 Lawrence Grant actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82
1962 Albert Israel Elkus composer, dies at 77
1965 Forrest Taylor actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
1965 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej Romanian President , dies at 63
1967 Wilmer King 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge New York, dies
1968 Ralph Dunn actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
1970 Ralph Edward Flanders (Senator-VT), dies at 89
1975 Luigi Dallapiccola Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71
1980 Bon Scott Australian rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33
1981 Frank Merrik composer, dies at 94
1983 Alice White actress (Employees' Entrance), dies of a stroke at 78
1984 Ina Ray Hutton orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
1985 Elizabeth Julesberg author (Dick & Jane), dies
1985 George Holmes actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66
1986 Paul Stewart actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
1986 Adolfo Celi actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
1986 James O Eastland (Senator-D-MS), dies at 81
1989 Jaap van de Merwe Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies
1989 Merwe journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies
1990 Michael Powell English director (Life & Death of Colonel Blimp), dies at 84
1991 Peggy Mondo actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
1992 Chet Leaming dies after brief illness at 66
1993 Gerhard Gesell judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
1993 Michael Morrison actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
1994 Derek Jarman actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
1994 Georges Watin Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
1994 Renske Vellinga Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
1995 Calder Willingham novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72
1995 Ian Ball photographer, dies at 80
1995 Shlomo Averbach Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
1996 Brenda Bruce actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77
1996 Charles O Finley baseball owner (Oakland A's), dies at 76
1996 Grant Sawyer US politician, dies at 76
1996 Madhaviah Krishnan naturalist, dies at 83
1997 Deng Xiaoping head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997 Leo Rosten writer/humorist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
1997 Stanley Pearson footballer, dies at 76
1998 Grandpa Jones country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1968 DYE MELVIN C. CARLETON MI
1968 GLOVER DOUGLAS J. CORTLAND NY
1968 GRIFFITH ROBERT S. HAPEVILLE GA
1968 UPLINGER BARTON JOHN CAMARILLO CA REMAINS RETURNED 02/19/68
1969 SWEENEY JON M. 08/17/70 RELEASED IN HANOI
1971 HULL JAMES LARRY LUBBOCK TX
