Deaths on 19 February
2000s
José Mojica Marins
2020
Brazilian filmmaker (1936–2020)
Pop Smoke
2020
American rapper (1999–2020)
Karl Lagerfeld
2019
German fashion designer (1933–2019)
Larry Coryell
2017
American jazz guitarist (1943–2017)
Umberto Eco
2016
Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)
Harper Lee
2016
American novelist (1926–2016)
Chiaki Morosawa
2016
Japanese anime screenwriter
Samuel Willenberg
2016
Polish survivor of Treblinka (1923–2016)
Harold Johnson (boxer)
2015
American boxer (1928–2015)
Nirad Mohapatra
2015
Indian film director (1947–2015)
Harris Wittels
2015
American actor, comedian, writer, and musician (1984–2015)
Kresten Bjerre
2014
Danish footballer (1946-2014)
Dale Gardner
2014
American astronaut (1948–2014)
Valery Kubasov
2014
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1935–2014)
Armen Alchian
2013
American economist (1914–2013)
Park Chul-soo
2013
South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Robert Coleman Richardson
2013
American experimental physicist (1937–2013)
Donald Richie
2013
American writer and film historian (1924–2013)
Eugene Whelan
2013
Canadian politician
Ruth Barcan Marcus
2012
American philosopher
Jaroslav Velinský
2012
Vitaly Vorotnikov
2012
Soviet politician (1926–2012)
Ollie Matson
2011
American football player and sprinter (1930–2011)
Kelly Groucutt
2009
British bassist (1945–2009)
Yegor Letov
2008
Russian musician (1964–2008)
Lydia Shum
2008
Hong Kong comedian and actress (1945–2008)
Janet Blair
2007
American singer and actress (1921–2007)
Celia Franca
2007
Co-founder of the National Ballet of Canada (1921–2007)
Johnny Paycheck
2003
American country singer (1938–2003)
Sylvia Rivera
2002
American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002)
Liza 'N' Eliaz
2001
Belgian musical artist (1958–2001)
Stanley Kramer
2001
American film director and producer (1913–2001)
Charles Trenet
2001
French singer-songwriter (1913–2001)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
2000
Austrian-born visual artist (1928–2000)
1900s
Mohammed al-Sadr
1999
Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric (1943–1999)
Grandpa Jones
1998
Musical artist (1913–1998)
Leo Rosten
1997
Jewish American humorist (1908–1997)
Deng Xiaoping
1997
Leader of China from 1978 to 1989
Charlie Finley
1996
American businessman (1918–1996)
Derek Jarman
1994
British film director and artist (1942–1994)
Tojo Yamamoto
1992
American professional wrestler (1927-1992)
André Frédéric Cournand
1988
French-American physician and physiologist
Alice White
1983
American actress (1904–1983)
Bon Scott
1980
Australian singer (1946–1980)
Anthony Crosland
1977
British politician (1918–1977)
Mike González (catcher)
1977
Cuban baseball player (1890–1977)
Joseph Szigeti
1973
Hungarian violinist (1892–1973)
John Grierson
1972
Scottish documentary filmmaker (1898–1972)
Lee Morgan
1972
American jazz trumpeter (1938–1972)
Ralph Flanders
1970
American engineer, industrialist, and politician (1880–1970)
Madge Blake
1969
American actress (1899–1969)
Georgios Papanikolaou
1962
Greek pathologist (1883–1962)
Willard Miller
1959
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
Maurice Garin
1957
French cyclist (1871–1957)
Richard Rushall
1953
British businessman and mayor of Rangoon
Knut Hamsun
1952
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
André Gide
1951
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
John Basilone
1945
US Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient (1916–1945)
Billy Mitchell
1936
United States Army general (1879–1936)
George Howard Earle Jr.
1928
American lawyer (1856–1928)
Robert Fuchs (composer)
1927
Austrian composer and music teacher (1847–1927)
Ernst Mach
1916
Czech physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1915
Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
1800s
Karl Weierstrass
1897
German mathematician (1815–1897)
Multatuli
1887
Dutch writer
Georg Büchner
1837
German dramatist (1813–1837)
Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury)
1837
English Anglican bishop (1756–1837)
Elizabeth Carter
1806
English poet and polymath (1717–1806)
Before 1800
Jean-Charles de Borda
1799
French scientist and Navy officer (1733–1799)
Nicholas Van Dyke (politician, born 1738)
1789
American Founding Father and politician
Mary, Countess of Harold
1785
English noble
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter
1716
Norwegian writer
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
1709
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military leader of Japan from 1680 to 1709
Charles Chauncy
1672
Anglo-American clergyman and president of Harvard College (1592–1672)
Henry Savile (Bible translator)
1622
English scholar and mathematician (1549–1622)
Orazio Vecchi
1605
Italian composer (1550–1605)
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur
1602
French and Breton nobleman (1558–1602)
Erasmus Reinhold
1553
German astronomer and mathematician (1511–1553)
Enno I, Count of East Frisia
1491
Count of East Frisia
Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
1445
Queen of Portugal from 1433 to 1438
Thomas Arundel
1414
English archbishop (1353–1414)
Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf
1408
15th-century English nobleman
Munio of Zamora
1300
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
1275
Sufi saint and poet (1177–1274)
Irene Doukaina
1133
Byzantine empress from 1081 to 1118
Leontius of Trier
446
Bishop of Trier (414–445)
Clodius Albinus
197
Roman imperial pretender (c. 150 – 197 CE)