February 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 19, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#327 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 19 birthdays
Élie Ducommun · Swiss activist1833
Svante Arrhenius · Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist1859
Carson McCullers · American writer1917
Lee Marvin · American actor1924
John Frankenheimer · American film and television director1930
Saparmurat Niyazov · President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 20061940
Smokey Robinson · American R&B singer, songwriter and producer1940
David Gross · American particle physicist and string theorist1941
Amy Tan · American novelist1952
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner · President of Argentina from 2007 to 20151953
Jeff Daniels · American actor, musician and playwright1955
Roderick MacKinnon · American neuroscientist1956
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor · Third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1960
Jennifer Doudna · American biochemist1964
Benicio del Toro · Puerto Rican actor1967
Jeff Kinney · American author and cartoonist1971
Victoria Justice · American actress and singer1993
Mauro Icardi · Argentine association football player1993
Chappell Roan · American singer1998
Millie Bobby Brown · English actress2004
On this day in history
1903A blockade against Venezuela, caused by President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts, was lifted.
1963Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a non-fiction book credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States, was first published.
2002NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2011Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore.
1942A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.
1945World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948The Southeast Asian Youth Conference, which is believed to have inspired armed communist rebellions in different Asian countries, opened in Calcutta, India.
1965Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
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