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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, February 19


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Births

* 1963 Seal (musician) Known primarily as Seal, is an Anglo-Nigerian soul singer and songwriter.
* 1963 Laurell K. Hamilton American erotic horror and science fiction/fantasy writer.
* 1953 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Became president of Argentina in 2007, when she was elected to succeed her husband, Nestor Kirchner.
* 1952 Amy Tan Chinese-American writer and member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, most famous for her novel The Joy Luck Club.
* 1948 Pim Fortuyn Known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List.
* 1947 Tim Shadbolt Mayor of the city of Invercargill, New Zealand, and former mayor of Waitemata City.
* 1943 Robert Trivers American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974).
* 1940 Smokey Robinson R&B and soul singer and songwriter.
* 1940 Jeffrey Cohen Leading British rabbi and author of books on Judaism.
* 1939 Heinz Pagels American physicist, an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights.
* 1906 Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar Popularly known as "Guruji", was the second "Sarsanghchalak" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
* 1896 Andre Breton French writer, poet and theorist of Surrealism.
* 1806 Nehemiah Adams American clergyman and writer.
* 1717 David Garrick English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.
* 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus Early modern astronomer and mathematician; proponent of the heliocentric cosmic model.

Deaths

† 2010 Lionel Jeffries British actor, screenwriter and film director.
† 2001 Charles Trenet Born Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, was a French singer and songwriter.
† 2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser Born Friedrich Stowasser, was an Austrian painter, architect, and sculptor.
† 1997 Deng Xiaoping Prominent Chinese politician and reformer, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China.
† 1997 Leo Rosten American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968).
† 1994 Derek Jarman British film director, stage designer, artist, and writer.
† 1990 Michael Powell .
† 1988 Rene Char Born Renι-Ιmile Char, was a 20th century French poet, and a member of the French Resistance forces of World War II.
† 1988 Isabel Bishop Major painter of Depression-era social realism.
† 1986 James Eastland United States Senator from Mississippi in 1941 and from 1943 to 1978.
† 1980 Bon Scott Lead singer, lyricist, and frontman of the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC, from 1974 until his death in 1980.
† 1977 Anthony Crosland Born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, was a British politician and Labour member of Parliament - as well as being a socialist theorist.
† 1952 Knut Hamsun Norwegian author and Nobel laureate.
† 1951 Andre Gide French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
† 1927 Georg Brandes Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.
† 1916 Ernst Mach Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves.
† 1902 Richard Maurice Bucke Often called Maurice Bucke, was an important Canadian progressive psychiatrist in the late nineteenth century.
† 1837 Georg Buchner German dramatist and writer of prose.
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