February 19
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Art and culture
- 1861 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
- 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
- 1953 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
Births
- 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
- 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
- 1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
- 1902 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
- 1917 - Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
- 1924 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1934 - Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1940 - Smokey Robinson, American singer
Deaths
- 1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
- 1951 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
- 1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
- 1994 - Derek Jarman, British film director (b. 1942)
- 2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
- 2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
notes
- 1873 - Louis Feuillade (February 19 1873 – February 25 1925) was a French film director from the silent era.
- 1990 - Michael Powell (September 30 1905 – February 19 1990) was a British film director best known today for Peeping Tom.
- 1988 - René Char (June 14, 1907 – February 19, 1988) was a 20th century French poet.
- xxxx - Carole Eastman (February 19, 1934 - February 13, 2004), was an American screenwriter
- 1876 - Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957, was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor,
- 1947 - Jackie Curtis (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985), better known as Jackie Curtis, was a famous transgendered film star, poet and playwright
- 1955 - Siri Hustvedt (born February 19 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.
- 1877 - George Melford (February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor and film director.
- 1952 - Ryu Murakami (19 February 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker best known for Audition and Tokyo Decadence.
- 1899 - Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was a painter and sculptor born in Rosario, the son of an Italian father and an Argentine mother.
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