What happened on February 19 ?

197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain

1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)

1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)

1605 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)

1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)

1620 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)

1622 - Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)

1653 - Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)

1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)

1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)

1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)

1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)

1716 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)

1789 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)

1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)

1806 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)

1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)

1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)

1887 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)

1897 - Karl Weierstraÿ, German mathematician (b. 1815)

1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)

1927 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)

1936 - Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)

1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)

1936 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)

1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)

1951 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1969 - Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)

1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)

1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)

1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)

1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)

1980 - Bon Scott, Australian musician (AC/DC) (b. 1946)

1983 - Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904)

1986 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922)

1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)

1994 - Derek Jarman, British Film Director (b. 1942)

1996 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918)

1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)

1997 - Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908)

1998 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and comedian (b. 1913)

1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)

2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)

2001 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)

2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)

2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)