February 19: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is February 19th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on February 19th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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February 19th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and classical music composer, was born on February 19, 1743.

Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (The Endless Column and Sleeping Muse) was born on February 19, 1876.

John Michael Frankenheimer, American film director (Against the Wall, Andersonville, The Birdman of Alcatraz, The Burning Season, Days of Wine and Roses, The French Connection, George Wallace, The Manchurian Candidate and Ronin), was born on February 19, 1930.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American horse racing jockey George Edward (Eddie) Arcaro was born on February 19, 1916. Eddie Arcaro was the first jockey to capture the Triple Crown of thoroughbred horse racing twice. He won the Belmont Stakes, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 1941 on Whirlaway and in 1948 on Citation. With six wins in the Belmont Stakes, five victories in the Kentucky Derby and six triumphs in the Preakness Stakes, Eddie Arcaro was called "the most famous horseback rider since Paul Revere."

Eddie Brown, American professional football player (Cincinnati Bengals), was born on February 19, 1952.

Becky Dyroen-Lancer, American synchronized swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on February 19, 1971.

American professional football player Paul Krause (Minnesota Vikings and Washington Redskins) was born on February 19, 1942.

Leslie Laing, Jamaican relay runner and Olympic gold medalist (1952), was born on February 19, 1925.

Czechoslovakian tennis star Hana Mandlíkova was born on February 19, 1962.

Bob Menne, American professional golfer, was born on February 19, 1942.

American professional baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins) and manager (Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds) Russell Eugene (Russ) Nixon was born on February 19, 1935.

American professional baseball player Richard Walther (Dick) Siebert (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on February 19, 1912.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Elie Ducommun, Swiss pacifist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner (1902), was born on February 19, 1833.

British actor and playwright David Garrick (Bon Ton, The Clandestine Marriage and Miss in Her Teens) was born on February 19, 1717.

Lula Carson (Carson McCullers) Smith, American novelist (The Ballad of the Sad Café, Clock Without Hands, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, The Mortgaged Heart,Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Square Root of Wonderful), was born on February 19, 1917.

Chinese-American author Amy Tan (The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Moon Lady, The Opposite of Fate and Saving Fish from Drowning) was born on February 19, 1952.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Roger Goodell, American sports executive and National Football League (NFL) Commissioner, was born on February 19, 1959.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Canadian rock drummer Daniel Adair (3 Doors Down, Martone, Nickelback and Suspect) was born on February 19, 1975.

Justine Bateman, American actress (A Century of Women, Family Ties, The Fatal Image, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Men Behaving Badly, Out of Order, Primary Motive and Satisfaction), was born on February 19, 1966. Justine Bateman's brother is actor Jason Bateman.

German rock bassist Francis Buchholz (The Scorpions) was born on February 19, 1954.

Denny Corell, American rock and contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter (Blues Image, Love Song and Manna), was born on February 19, 1946.

Lorianne Crook, American radio and television personality (Crook & Chase, Offstage with Lorianne Crook and This Week in Country Music), was born on February 19, 1957.

American actor Jeff Daniels (Arachnophobia, Because of Winn-Dixie, Dumb and Dumber, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, Radio Days, Ragtime, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, Speed, The Squid and the Whale and Terms of Endearment) was born on February 19, 1955.

Benecio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor (Che, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sin City, Snatch, Traffic and The Usual Suspects) and Academy Award winner (2000), was born on February 19, 1967.

Haylie Duff, American singer and actress (7th Heaven, Material Girls and Napoleon Dynamite), was born on February 19, 1985. Haylie Duff's sister is singer and actress Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire).

American pop singer Bob Engemann (The Lettermen) was born on February 19, 1936.

Bruce Fairbairn, American actor (Cyclone, Knots Landing, L.A. Law, Nightstick, The Rookies and Vampire Hookers), was born on February 19, 1947.

Jon Fishman, American jam rock drummer (Pfish), was born on February 19, 1965.

American actress (Gold Diggers of 1937, Million Dollar Legs and Range Feud) and Ziegfeld Follies performer Susan Fleming was born on February 19, 1908. Susan Fleming married comedian and actor Harpo Marx (The Marx Brothers), but she was not related to Groucho Marx' girlfriend Erin Fleming.

Carlin Glynn, American actress (Sixteen Candles), was born on February 19, 1940. Carlin Glynn's daughter is actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Richard III, Stanley and Livingstone and The Ten Commandments) was born on February 19, 1893.

Johann (Falco) Holzel, Austrian technopop singer ("All Vienna," "Rock Me Amadeus" and "The Sound of Musik"), was born on February 19, 1957.

Tony Iommi, British heavy metal rock guitarist and songwriter (Black Sabbath), was born on February 19, 1948.

Stan Kenton, American jazz and Big Band pianist and bandleader, was born on February 19, 1912.

American actor (The Big Heat, The Big Red One, The Caine Mutiny, Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, The Killers, Paint Your Wagon, Point Blank and Ship of Fools), Academy Award winner (1965) and World War II veteran Lee Marvin was born on February 19, 1924.

Michael Nader, American actor (All My Children, As the World Turns, Bare Essence, Beach Party, Dynasty, Gidget and Lost Horizon), was born on February 19, 1945. Michael Nader is nephew to actor George Nader.

William Smokey Robinson, American R&B, soul and rock singer (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) and music industry executive (Motown Records), was born on February 19, 1940. Smokey Robinson's hit singles included "I Second That Emotion," "Shop Around" and "Tracks of My Tears."

American R&B and soul singer and songwriter Robert (Bobby) Rogers (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) was born on February 19, 1940.

Lugee Alfredo Giovanni (Lou Christie) Sacco, American pop singer (The Tammys), was born on February 19, 1943. Lou Christie's hit singles included "The Gypsy Cried," "I'm Gonna Make You Mine," "Lightnin' Strikes," "Rhapsody in the Rain" and "Two Faces Have I."

British soul and rock singer Seal Henry Olusegun Kwassi Olumide Adelo Samuel ("Killer," "Kiss from a Rose" and "My Vision") was born on February 19, 1963. Seal married supermodel Heidi Klum.

John William (John Bubbles) Sublett, American vaudevillian, tap dancer and actor (Cabin in the Sky, No Maps on My Taps, Porgy and Bess, A Song is Born and Variety Show), was born on February 19, 1902. John Bubbles became popular with his creation of rhythm tap dancing.

British actress Estelle Merle O'Brien (Merle Oberon) Thompson (Deep in My Heart, Hotel, Interval, The Oscar, Stage Door Canteen andWuthering Heights) was born on February 19, 1911.

American actor Carl Henry (Louis Calhern) Vogt (Annie Get Your Gun, The Asphalt Jungle, The Count of Monte Cristo, Duck Soup, High Society, Jacobowsky und der Oberst, Julius Caesar, The Magnificent Yankee, Prisoner of Zenda, The Red Pony and The Student Prince) was born on February 19, 1895. Louis Calhern's four wives included actresses Ilka Chase and Natalie Schafer.

Dave Wakeling, British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Beat, The English Beat and General Public), was born on February 19, 1956.

Nydia Westman, American actress (From Hell to Heaven, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Going My Way, Little Woman, The Reluctant Astronaut, Rose Bowl, Strange Justice and The Velvet Touch), was born on February 19, 1902.

British actor Ray Winstone (Beowulf, Cold Mountain, The Departed, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, King Arthur, The Proposition, Scum, Sexy Beast and Vincent) was born on February 19, 1957.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Svante August Arhenius, Swedish chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1903), was born on February 19, 1859.

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and author (De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium), was born on February 19, 1473. Nicolaus Copernicus formulated the Copernican System, postulating that the sun was the center of the universe.

Swedish explorer and Himalayan geographer Sven Anders Hedin was born on February 19, 1865.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottsh geologist, was born on February 19, 1792. Roderick Murchison has been credited with the first analyses of the Silurian System.

February 19th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

British Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was born on February 19, 1960.

Peruvian President Augusto Bernardino Leguia y Salcedo was born on February 19, 1863.

Philip V, King of Spain, was born on February 19, 1683.

Willem III, King of the Netherlands, was born on February 19, 1817.

Do you know any others who are celebrating birthdays on February 19th?

If you know additional notable people (including yourself) who may be celebrating a birthday on February 19th, please indicate so in a comment below. Thank you!

Happy Birthday, February 19th.

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