Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 19

Births

• 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543) (pictured)
• 1630 - Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha warrior (d. 1680)
• 1911 - Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
• 1940 - Smokey Robinson, American singer
• 1952 - Amy Tan, American novelist
• 1957 - Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)
• 1960 - Andrew, Duke of York

Deaths

• 1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
• 1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)