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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of February 0197 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. |
| 19th of February 1594 | EVENT | Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden. |
| 19th of February 1600 | EVENT | The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. |
| 19th of February 1674 | EVENT | England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York. |
| 19th of February 1807 | EVENT | In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert. |
| 19th of February 1819 | EVENT | British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III. |
| 19th of February 1846 | EVENT | In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas' annexation by the United States. |
| 19th of February 1847 | EVENT | The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party. |
| 19th of February 1859 | EVENT | Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States. |
| 19th of February 1861 | EVENT | Serfdom is abolished in Russia. |
| 19th of February 1876 | EVENT | Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia. |
| 19th of February 1878 | EVENT | Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. |
| 19th of February 1884 | EVENT | More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. |
| 19th of February 1915 | EVENT | World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli. |
| 19th of February 1921 | EVENT | Reza Shah takes control of Tehran during a successful coup |
| 19th of February 1937 | EVENT | Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian authorities exact vicious reprisals on the population. |
| 19th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. |
| 19th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people. |
| 19th of February 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. |
| 19th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima : about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. |
| 19th of February 1949 | EVENT | Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. |
| 19th of February 1953 | EVENT | Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. |
| 19th of February 1959 | EVENT | The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. |
| 19th of February 1960 | EVENT | China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket. |
| 19th of February 1963 | EVENT | The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. |
| 19th of February 1972 | EVENT | The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan. |
| 19th of February 1976 | EVENT | Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417 |
| 19th of February 1978 | EVENT | Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat. |
| 19th of February 1985 | EVENT | Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital. |
| 19th of February 1985 | EVENT | Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. |
| 19th of February 1986 | EVENT | Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka. |
| 19th of February 1986 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years. |
| 19th of February 1999 | EVENT | President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper. |
| 19th of February 2001 | EVENT | The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
| 19th of February 2002 | EVENT | NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. |
| 19th of February 2006 | EVENT | A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners. |
| 19th of February 1473 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543) |
| 19th of February 1526 | BIRTHDAY | Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609) |
| 19th of February 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630) |
| 19th of February 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680) |
| 19th of February 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) |
| 19th of February 1717 | BIRTHDAY | David Garrick, British actor (d. 1779) |
| 19th of February 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774) |
| 19th of February 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805) |
| 19th of February 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844) |
| 19th of February 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881) |
| 19th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878) |
| 19th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905) |
| 19th of February 1821 | BIRTHDAY | August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868) |
| 19th of February 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Elie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906) |
| 19th of February 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (d. 1919) |
| 19th of February 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (d. 1908) |
| 19th of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1927) |
| 19th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (d. 1952) |
| 19th of February 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer (d. 1923) |
| 19th of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957) |
| 19th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriele Munter, German painter (d. 1962) |
| 19th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Obregon, Mexican president (d. 1928) |
| 19th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) |
| 19th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949) |
| 19th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Cedric Hardwicke, British actor (d. 1964) |
| 19th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Mazquiaran, Spanish matador ( d. 1940 ) |
| 19th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 19th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Breton, French poet (d. 1966) |
| 19th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931) |
| 19th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960) |
| 19th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992) |
| 19th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Havank, Dutch writer (d. 1964) |
| 19th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress (d. 2010) |
| 19th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979) |
| 19th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997) |
| 19th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Pedro Gastao of Orleans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (d. 2007) |
| 19th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005) |
| 19th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997) |
| 19th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967) |
| 19th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003) |
| 19th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988) |
| 19th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007) |
| 19th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 19th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006) |
| 19th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Norris, American ice hockey executive (d. 1986) |
| 19th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frantisek Vlacil, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist (d. 1999) |
| 19th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003) |
| 19th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | K Viswanath, South Indian film director |
| 19th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002) |
| 19th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph P. Kerwin, NASA astronaut |
| 19th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 19th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (d. 2010) |
| 19th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 19th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist (d. 1997) |
| 19th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Walker Jr., American blues guitarist |
| 19th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Munoz, Cuban-born Mexican actor and screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 19th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1989) |
| 19th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gwen Taylor, English actress |
| 19th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006) |
| 19th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Smokey Robinson, American singer |
| 19th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Gross, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 19th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Krause, American football player |
| 19th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer |
| 19th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate |
| 19th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Christie, American singer |
| 19th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Rumor, German footballer |
| 19th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Nader, American actor |
| 19th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Antonov, Soviet-Russian rock musician |
| 19th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974) |
| 19th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dean, Canadian guitarist (Loverboy) |
| 19th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hudson, Australian rules footballer |
| 19th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand |
| 19th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Andes, American musician |
| 19th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002) |
| 19th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (d. 1995) |
| 19th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Iommi, English guitarist (Black Sabbath) |
| 19th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Bunten, American software developer (d. 1998) |
| 19th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer |
| 19th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Juice Leskinen, Finnish songwriter |
| 19th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Powell, British musician |
| 19th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Nichols, American actor |
| 19th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar |
| 19th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Tan, American novelist |
| 19th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican astronaut |
| 19th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994) |
| 19th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor |
| 19th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina |
| 19th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Socrates, Brazilian footballer |
| 19th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Daniels, American actor |
| 19th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Beller, American actress |
| 19th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 19th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Wakeling, English musician (The (English) Beat, General Public) |
| 19th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998) |
| 19th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lorianne Crook, Television Personality |
| 19th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Winstone, British actor |
| 19th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Fielding, English writer |
| 19th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew, Duke of York |
| 19th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Ash, English actress |
| 19th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Chamoux, French mountaineer (d. 1995) |
| 19th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998) |
| 19th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Wallace, English race car driver |
| 19th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Laroche, American orchid poacher |
| 19th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hana Mandlikova, Czech tennis player |
| 19th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer |
| 19th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Tuck, American actress |
| 19th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Seal, English singer |
| 19th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sonu Walia, Indian actress |
| 19th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer |
| 19th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Aldrich, American musician (Whitesnake) |
| 19th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Fishman, American musician (Phish) |
| 19th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy, American musician (Smash Mouth) |
| 19th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Lane, English Swimmer |
| 19th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Justine Bateman, American actress |
| 19th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player |
| 19th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer |
| 19th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor |
| 19th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Burton C. Bell, American vocalist |
| 19th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joacim Cans, Swedish singer (HammerFall) |
| 19th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa McCune, Australian actress |
| 19th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Shaham, Israeli-born American violinist |
| 19th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player |
| 19th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Francine, American professional wrestler |
| 19th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Lange, Nickelodeon's Victorious Mr. Sikowitz |
| 19th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Doring, American professional wrestler |
| 19th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Adair, Canadian Drummer (Nickelback) |
| 19th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder |
| 19th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mikko Kaven, Finnish footballer |
| 19th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress and singer |
| 19th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jahidi White, American basketball player |
| 19th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ola Salo, Swedish singer (The Ark) |
| 19th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer |
| 19th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Immortal Technique, American rapper |
| 19th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Konstantinou, Greek-born Cypriot footballer |
| 19th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Buchan, English Actor |
| 19th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bassnectar, American Dubstep/Electronica musician |
| 19th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mariska, Finnish rapper |
| 19th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress |
| 19th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player |
| 19th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Neleh Dennis, American reality show contestant |
| 19th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Freeney, American football player |
| 19th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Miller, American basketball player |
| 19th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Gandy, British model |
| 19th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Arniell, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Ditto, American singer (The Gossip) |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Reyes, American boxer |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Shorey, English footballer |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Vitas, Russian singer |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Martino, American soccer player |
| 19th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Letterle, American actor and singer |
| 19th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer |
| 19th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Assunta De Rossi, Filipino actress |
| 19th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kotooshu Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler |
| 19th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer/actress |
| 19th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Richardson, American Idol finalist |
| 19th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Haylie Duff, American singer/actress |
| 19th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Arielle Kebbel, American actress |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Reon Kadena, Japanese model and actress |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Mena, Norwegian singer |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jayde Nicole, Canadian model |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 19th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian |
| 19th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor |
| 19th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Pasqualino, English actor |
| 19th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Bayne, American race car Driver |
| 19th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Schuck, Filipina actress |
| 19th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Justice, American actress |
| 19th of February 0197 | DEATH | Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain |
| 19th of February 1133 | DEATH | Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (Born 1066) |
| 19th of February 1553 | DEATH | Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (Born 1511) |
| 19th of February 1589 | DEATH | Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (Born 1522) |
| 19th of February 1602 | DEATH | Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (Born 1558) |
| 19th of February 1605 | DEATH | Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (Born 1550) |
| 19th of February 1620 | DEATH | Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (Born 1547) |
| 19th of February 1622 | DEATH | Sir Henry Savile, English educator (Born 1549) |
| 19th of February 1653 | DEATH | Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (Born 1597) |
| 19th of February 1663 | DEATH | Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (Born 1603) |
| 19th of February 1670 | DEATH | King Frederick III of Denmark (Born 1609) |
| 19th of February 1672 | DEATH | Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (Born 1592) |
| 19th of February 1709 | DEATH | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (Born 1646) |
| 19th of February 1716 | DEATH | Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (Born 1634) |
| 19th of February 1789 | DEATH | Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (Born 1738) |
| 19th of February 1799 | DEATH | Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (Born 1733) |
| 19th of February 1806 | DEATH | Elizabeth Carter, English writer (Born 1717) |
| 19th of February 1837 | DEATH | Georg Buchner, German playwright (Born 1813) |
| 19th of February 1837 | DEATH | Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury (Born 1756) |
| 19th of February 1887 | DEATH | Multatuli, Dutch writer (Born 1820) |
| 19th of February 1897 | DEATH | Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (Born 1815) |
| 19th of February 1916 | DEATH | Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (Born 1838) |
| 19th of February 1927 | DEATH | Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (Born 1847) |
| 19th of February 1936 | DEATH | Charles Harding Firth, British historian (Born 1857) |
| 19th of February 1936 | DEATH | Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (Born 1879) |
| 19th of February 1942 | DEATH | Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (Born 1910) |
| 19th of February 1951 | DEATH | Andre Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1869) |
| 19th of February 1952 | DEATH | Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (Born 1859) |
| 19th of February 1957 | DEATH | Maurice Garin, French cyclist (Born 1871) |
| 19th of February 1959 | DEATH | Willard Miller, American sailor (Born 1877) |
| 19th of February 1962 | DEATH | Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (Born 1883) |
| 19th of February 1968 | DEATH | Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (Born 1878) |
| 19th of February 1969 | DEATH | Madge Blake, American actress (Born 1899) |
| 19th of February 1970 | DEATH | Christoforos Nezer, Greek actor (Born 1887) |
| 19th of February 1972 | DEATH | John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (Born 1898) |
| 19th of February 1972 | DEATH | Tedd Pierce, American animator (Born 1906) |
| 19th of February 1972 | DEATH | Lee Morgan, American jazz musician (Born 1938) |
| 19th of February 1973 | DEATH | Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (Born 1892) |
| 19th of February 1973 | DEATH | Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer (Born 1897) |
| 19th of February 1975 | DEATH | Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (Born 1904) |
| 19th of February 1977 | DEATH | Mike Gonzalez, Cuban baseball player (Born 1890) |
| 19th of February 1977 | DEATH | Anthony Crosland, British politician (Born 1918) |
| 19th of February 1980 | DEATH | Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (Born 1946) |
| 19th of February 1983 | DEATH | Alice White, American film actress (Born 1904) |
| 19th of February 1986 | DEATH | Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (Born 1922) |
| 19th of February 1988 | DEATH | Andre Frederic Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1895) |
| 19th of February 1992 | DEATH | Tojo Yamamoto, American professional wrestler (Born 1927) |
| 19th of February 1994 | DEATH | Derek Jarman, British film director (Born 1942) |
| 19th of February 1996 | DEATH | Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (Born 1924) |
| 19th of February 1996 | DEATH | Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (Born 1918) |
| 19th of February 1997 | DEATH | Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (Born 1904) |
| 19th of February 1997 | DEATH | Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (Born 1908) |
| 19th of February 1998 | DEATH | Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (Born 1913) |
| 19th of February 1999 | DEATH | Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated) (Born 1943) |
| 19th of February 2000 | DEATH | Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (Born 1928) |
| 19th of February 2001 | DEATH | Priscilla Davis, American socialite (Born 1942) |
| 19th of February 2001 | DEATH | Charles Trenet, French singer (Born 1913) |
| 19th of February 2001 | DEATH | Stanley Kramer, American director (Born 1913) |
| 19th of February 2003 | DEATH | Johnny Paycheck, American singer (Born 1938) |
| 19th of February 2007 | DEATH | Janet Blair, American actress (Born 1921) |
| 19th of February 2007 | DEATH | Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (Born 1921) |
| 19th of February 2008 | DEATH | Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (Born 1945) |
| 19th of February 2008 | DEATH | Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (Born 1964) |
| 19th of February 2009 | DEATH | Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (Born 1945) |
| 19th of February 2010 | DEATH | Jamie Gillis, American pornographic actor, director (Born 1943) |
| 19th of February 2010 | DEATH | Laura Spurr, American chairperson of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (Born 1945) |
| 19th of February 2011 | DEATH | Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (Born 1930) |