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)