What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every February birthday · battle February 19 against another date · all rankings
Who shares February 19
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Musician
1998 · United States
Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan, is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her camp and drag queen–influenced style.
Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1967 · Spain
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Goya Award, and the Best Actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1995 · Serbia
Nikola Jokić is a Serbian professional basketball player who is a center for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1964 · United States
Jennifer Anne Doudna is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics.
Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1859–1927 · Sweden
Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate.
Photogravure Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Leipzig., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1941 · United States
David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and Hugh David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Builders
Entrepreneur
1954–2026 · Germany
Francis Buchholz was a German musician best known as the bass guitarist of the German rock band Scorpions from 1973 until 1992, a group that was successful internationally; his bass riffs for hits such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Wind of Change" were regarded as iconic.
MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · The Swatch Group
1928–2010 · Switzerland
Nicolas George Hayek was a Lebanese-Swiss businessman, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group.
Walter Rutishauser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1863–1932 · Peru
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930, the latter term known as the "Oncenio" after its eleven-year length.
Courret Hermanos (Lima), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1866–1953 · United States
Mary Elizabeth Anderson was an American inventor and entrepreneur credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1963 · India
Falguni Sanjay Nayar is an Indian billionaire businesswoman, who is the founder and CEO of the beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa, formally known as FSN E-Commerce Ventures which is an acronym of her own name. Nayar is one of two self-made female Indian billionaires.
Entrepreneur
1964 · Kingdom of Denmark
Niels Thorborg is the chairman of the Danish football club Odense Boldklub. He is also the former richest person on Funen with a fortune of 3.1 billion Danish kroner.
February 19 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1993 · United States
Victoria Justice is an American actress and singer. She rose to fame on Nickelodeon, playing Lola Martinez on the comedy drama series Zoey 101 (2005–2008) and Tori Vega on the sitcom Victorious (2010–2013).
Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1963 · United Kingdom
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, known mononymously as Seal, is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the recipient of three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, with more than 20 million albums or singles sold.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1955 · United States
Jeffrey Warren Daniels is an American actor and musician. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama.
iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1924–1987 · United States
Lamont Warren "Lee" Marvin Jr. was an American actor. Known for his bass voice and prematurely white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. He received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two BAFTA Awards.
NBC Television Uploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1940 · United States
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer.
Ewingmason, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · Italy
Mauro Emanuel Icardi Rivero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Telefe, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1957 · United Kingdom
Raymond Andrew Winstone is an English actor. With a career spanning five decades, he is known for his "hard man" roles, usually delivered in his distinctive London accent.
Ibsan73, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1948 · United Kingdom
Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. is an English musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968, and was the guitarist, leader, main composer, and only constant member during the band's existence for over fifty years, playing guitar on all of their releases.
Photobra (Adam Bielawski), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1911–1979 · United States
Merle Oberon was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1954–2011 · Brazil
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates".
Athlete
1986 · Sweden
Marta Vieira da Silva, known mononymously as Marta, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the National Women's Soccer League club Orlando Pride and captains the Brazil women's national team.
Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1957–1998 · Austria
Johann "Hans" Hölzel, better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian musician.
Kungfuman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1930–2002 · United States
John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director, known both for his social dramas and his action/suspense pictures.
Andre E. King at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1979 · Russia
Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachev or Vitaliy Vladasovych Grachov, known professionally as Vitas, is a Latvia-born Ukrainian and Russian singer.
Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1977 · Italy
Gianluca Zambrotta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a full-back or as a wide midfielder, on both the left and right wings.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · Germany
Christoph Kramer is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1917–1967 · United States
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States.
Carl Van Vechten, 1959, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1948–2002 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist, and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
Roy Beusker, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1952 · United States
Amy Ruth Tan is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.
Robert Foothorap, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1876–1957 · France
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.
Edward Steichen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1958 · United Kingdom
Helen Fielding is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones.
HFprofemail at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1952 · Japan
Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan.
Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1717–1779 · Kingdom of Great Britain
David Garrick was an English actor who wrote, produced and influenced nearly all aspects of 18th century European theatrical practice, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.
Angelica Kauffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1743–1805 · Republic of Lucca
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classical musical centers. He is best known for the minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op.
Pompeo Batoni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1962 · Australia
Hana Mandlíková is a Czech–Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in the mid-1980s.
Robbie Mendelson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1877–1962 · Germany
Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1953–1994 · Italy
Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, comedian, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his works in the films I'm Starting back from Three (1981) and Il Postino: The Postman (1994), for which he was posthumously nominated for two Oscars.
Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1865–1952 · Sweden
Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1380–1459 · Republic of Florence
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist.
Antonio Luciani (Italian printmaker; fl. 1700–1738), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1943 · United Kingdom
Sir Richard Timothy Hunt is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells.
Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on February 19, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on February 19. Read the full methodology.
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