Birthdates Which Occur on February 19:
3 Sadiq Hidajat Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 Nicolaus Copernicus Toran, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
1532 Jean-Antoine de Ba‹f French poet (Lesson amours de M‚line)
1588 Pieter de Carpentier Flemish gov-gen 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 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
1755 Pieter G van Overstraten governor-general of Neth-Indies
1762 Friedrich Franz Hurka 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, (Rep-Missouri)
1824 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
1827 Charles Robert Woods Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855
1828 Johannes von Miquel German politician
1833 lie Ducommun Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902)
1841 Felipe Pedrell composer
1843 Adelina Patti Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
1859 Svante August Arhenius founded physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
1863 Augusto Bernardino Legu¡a y Salcedo president of Per£ (1908, 1919)
and Emanuel Moor composer
1864 Aritius S Talma Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)
1865 Adrian van Oordt Dutch writer (neo-romantic)
and Sven Hedin Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
1877 Louis Fran‡ois-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera)
1880 Arthur Shepherd composer
1881 Armin Knab composer
and Evert Gorter founder of Dutch medical child care
1886 George Luther Foote composer
1889 Jos‚ Eustasio Rivera Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
1893 Cedric Hardwicke Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
and Pietro Pancrazi Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
1894 Herb Pennock hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
1895 Louis Calhern NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
1898 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader
19-- Clay Anthony rocker (Junkyard-Blooze Hot Rod)
and Sunset Thomas XXX actress (Spice)
1901 Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
1902 Hugo Haas Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People)
and John Bubbles Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer
and Nydia Westman NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
1903 Kay Boyle St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
1904 Havank [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache)
1906 Grace Mary Williams composer
and Hendrik W C Spruit Dutch conductor
1911 Merle Oberon Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
and Nikola Hercigonja composer
1912 Adolf Rudnicki Polish writer (Niekochana)
and Stan Kenton [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
1913 Alvin Derold Etler composer
1915 John Freeman British Labour politician/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)
1921 Andries Treurnicht [Dr No], founder (S Afr Conservative Party)
and Claude Rene Georges Pascal composer
1922 Josef Matej composer
1923 Donald Lybbert composer
1924 Lee Marvin NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
1925 Jindrich Feld composer
and Leslie Laing Linstead Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1926 Gyorgy Kurtag composer
1930 John Frankenheimer NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
and Joseph P Kerwin Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
1934 David Hugh Jones Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
1940 Bobby Rogers US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me)
and Carlin Glynn US actress (Continental Divide)
and William "Smokey" Robinson Det, vocalist (& Miracles-Being With You)
1941 Carlos Roque Alsina composer
1942 Kenneth R Kramer (Rep-R-CO, 1979- )
1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
and Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Penn, vocalist (Lightning Striking Again)
1944 Jan Bart Klaster music editor (The Slogan)
1945 Jon Whiteley actor (Moonfleet)
1946 Paul Dean rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy)
and Pierre van der Linden Dutch drummer (Brainbox)
1948 Byron K Lichtenburg Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
and Mark Andes Philadelphia Pa, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
and Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
1949 Edward Hardin NYC, rock guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
and 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, astronaut (STS 23)
1953 Bill Kirchenbauer actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
1954 Frances Bucholz rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
and Jamie West-Oram rock guitarist (Fixx)
1955 Jeff Daniels GA, actor (Something Wild)
and Margaux Hemingway Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
1956 Dave Wakeling rocker
and George David Low Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
and Peter Holsapple rocker
1957 Dave "Smoke" Stewart Oakland Calif, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
and Falco [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
1960 Holly Johnson England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
and Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi S Africa head of Inkatha Youth Brigade
and Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
and Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola Kansas playmate (Feb, 1981)
1962 Hana Mandlikova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
1963 Jessica Tuck NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live)
and Seal English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)
1964 Doug Aldrich rocker
1966 Justine Bateman Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
and Paul Haarhuis Eindhoven Neth, tennis star (1994 US/Austral doubles)
and Prince Markie D [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 Benicio Del Toro Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill)
and Roel Liefden soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1968 Frank Watkins US heavy metalist bass (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1974 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Sochi Russia, tennis star (1995 doubles-Hamburg)
1975 Raymond Graanoogst Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1989 L A Baby orangutan at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
Deaths Which Occured February 19:
197 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
1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer, dies at 54
1620 Roemer P Visscher poet, buried in Amsterdam
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 Bchner German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23
1858 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini composer, dies at 78
1864 William Edwin Baldwin US Confederate brig-general, dies
1875 Jean B Vuillaume French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1878 Charles F Daubigny French restaurateur/painter, dies
1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
1894 Ernesto Camillo Sivori composer, dies at 78
1897 Karl T Weierstrass German mathematician, dies
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 [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies
Robert Fuchs composer, dies at 80
1933 Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, dies at 77
1941 Hamilton Harty composer, dies at 61
1944 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg composer, dies at 76
1945 Wim Speelman resistance fighter, executed at 26
1949 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx composer, dies at 84
1950 Edyth Walker US singer, dies
1951 Andr‚ Gide French writer (Les Faux-Monnzyeurs), dies in Paris at 81
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
Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej Romanian president, dies at 63
1967 Wilmer King 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
1968 Ralph Dunn actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
1970 Ralph Edward Flanders (Sen-VT), dies at 89
1975 Luigi Dallapiccola Ital composer, dies at 71
1980 Bon Scott Aust rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33
1981 Frank Merrik composer, dies at 94
1983 Alice White actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke
1984 Ina Ray Hutton orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
1985 Elizabeth Julesberg author (Dick & Jane), dies
George Holmes actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66
1986 Adolfo Celi actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
James O Eastland (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81
Paul Stewart actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
1989 Merwe journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies
1990 Michael Powell Engl director (Life & Death of Col 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 at 82 of liver cancer
Michael Morrison acotr (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
1994 Derek Jarman actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
Georges Watin Algerians/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
Renske Vellinga skating star, dies in auto-accident at 19
1995 Shlomo Averbach Israeli ultraorthodox rabbi, dies at 84
Holidays Which Occur February 19:
Ethiopia Martyr's Day (1930s)
Gabon Constitution Day (1959)
Religious Observances on February 19:
Christian Feast of St Conrad
Things to Remember for February 19:
Biorhythm Health Month-National Meat Month
Flowers-violet & primrose Gem-amethyst
National Cherry-American Heart-TV Sweeps & Black History Month
[Ancient Rome] Kalend‘ Februarius; Kalend Feb
[Plains Indians] Hunger Moon month
Last Day Astrological sign: Aquarius
27 Days Delta Leonid meteor shower, radiant between ç & ë Leonis
[Ancient Rome] a d xj Kal Mar
Highlights in History Which Occur February 19:
197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1537 Weavers of Leids strikes
1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp
1582 French van Valois becomes duke of Brabant
1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in the Hague
1674 Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
1700 Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
1771 Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis &
Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1807 British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
and VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
1846 Texas state govt formally installed in Austin
1856 Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio, obtains US patent on tin-type camera
and Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1861 Emperor Aleksandr II abolishes serfdom in Russia
and Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom (3/3 NS)
1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, DC
1869 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #507 Laodica
1910 English premier of Richard Strauss' "Electricity"
1913 Mexican General V Huerta gets support of US authorities
1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois
1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations
1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
1927 General staking against British occupiers in Shanghai
1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
and Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
1933 F L Whipple discovers asteroid #1252 Celestia
1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry
and US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
1936 Manuel Aza€a becomes Spanish premier
1938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1733 Silke
and E Delporte discovers asteroid #2713 Luxembourg
and Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
and Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3212
1941 Police surprise attack on Koco ice cream parlor in Amsterdam
1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
and Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
and FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
and Japanese fleet under vice-adm Nagumo bomb Darwin, Australia
and Japanese troop land on Timor
and NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free
at each of their upcoming home games
1943 German tank battle under Brig-Gen Buelowius in Tunisia
1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
and Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
and US Marines land on Iwo Jima
1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
and Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3282
and Mass arrests of communists in India
1952 French offensive at Hanoi
1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 British/Turkish/Greek accord over Cyprus' independence
and Gabon adopts its constitution
and USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
1960 protest strike in Poznan Poland
1961 Angolia agrees with Chinese "revisionism"
and Henk Van de Grift becomes world champ all-round skater
1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1964 UK flies « ton of Beatle wigs to US
1965 NFL adds 6th official
1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
1969 1st test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
and USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
and Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
1974 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #2055 Dvorak, #2073 Janacek & #3109
1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3111 Misuzu
and President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino [Tokyo Rose]
and Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
1980 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2747, #3313 & #3715
and Eric Heiden skating 1000m in 1:15.18
and Harvard College discovers asteroid #3243
and Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2315 Czechoslovakia & #2321 Luznice
1982 Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
and Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853
and Xinglong Station discovers asteroid #3481
1983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3414 Champollion
and Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
1984 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at
and Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
and ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
and USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1987 Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
and Reagan ends trade boycott against Poland
1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3m) "Legs Diamond" closes
1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1992 Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
and Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
Your Special Reminders for February 19:
1936 1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1961 63øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 50th day of the year with 315 days left (Numerology = 3)
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