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Born on February 19

February 19 birthdays & history

If you were born on February 19, you share a birthday with Nicolaus Copernicus, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Svante Arrhenius. February 19 babies are Aquarius, with amethyst as their birthstone and the violet as their birth flower. February 19 is the 50th day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on February 19

  • 1473Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer
  • 1953Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina
  • 1859Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1896André Breton, French poet and author
  • 1964Jennifer Doudna, American biochemist
  • 2004Millie Bobby Brown, English actress, model and producer
  • 1941David Gross, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1960Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, second son of Elizabeth II
  • 1967Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor, director, and producer
  • 1833Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on February 19

  • 1819British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.
  • 1836King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the province of South Australia.
  • 1847The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
  • 1878Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • 1910Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and Liverpool.
  • 1913Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
  • 1931The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia was dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within Georgia.
  • 1949Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • 1959The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
  • 1960China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
  • 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.
  • 1976Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.

Also observed on February 19

  • Brâncuși Day (Romania)
  • Commemoration of Vasil Levski (Bulgaria)
  • Shivaji Jayanti (Maharashtra, India)

Questions, answered

What star sign is February 19?

People born on February 19 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is amethyst and their birth flower is the violet.

Which famous people were born on February 19?

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Svante Arrhenius (1859), André Breton (1896), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Millie Bobby Brown (2004) were all born on February 19.

What happened on February 19 in history?

Among other things: in 1960, China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket; in 1963, Betty 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; in 1976, Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.

Can I get a newspaper front page from February 19?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any February 19 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “February 19”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.