19 February: today's birthdays

• Daniel Adair - Canadian drummer
• Constantin Brâncuşi - Romanian sculptor
• André Breton - French writer and poet. He wrote the two Surrealist Manifestos
• Nicolaus Copernicus (UK) - Mathematician and astronomer born in the Kingdom of Poland. He was the first to think that the Sun was placed in the centre of the universe and not the Earth
• Benicio Del Toro - Puerto Rican actor, born Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Javier Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000), directed by Steven Soderbergh
• Jacques Deray - French film director
• Jennifer Doudna - American biochemist and geneticist, born Jennifer Anne Doudna. She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier.
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Argentine politician
• Louis Feuillade - French film director
• Helen Fielding - English author and screenwriter. She wrote Bridget Jones's Diary
• Tony Iommi - English guitarist and songwriter, founder of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath
• Nikola Jokić - Serbian basketball player who plays for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA.
• Mikołaj Kopernik - Mathematician and astronomer born in the Kingdom of Poland. He was the first to think that the Sun was placed in the centre of the universe and not the Earth
• György Kurtág - Hungarian composer
• Jonathan Lethem - American writer. He wrote Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude 
• Seal - English singer
• ​Jelle Vanendert - Belgian professional racing cyclist
• František Vláčil - Czech film director, screenwriter, painter, and graphic artist