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Born on 19 February
In UTC, since 1920, 19 February has been Pisces all day in 35 years. In the other 72, the sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces during the day, so a birthday then is Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 35 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 19 February by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Aquarius or PiscesThe sun changed sign on this date in 72 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where Pisces used to begin
19 February used to be the day the sun entered Pisces. It did so on this date in every year from 1920 to 1948 and in 72 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026; the last time was 2024, at 04:13 UTC. As the crossing has moved earlier, onto the 18th in most recent years, more 19 February birthdays have been Pisces from the first minute: 35 in the period, including 2025 and 2026.
It is also one of the two latest dates the new year has fallen on. The new year began on 19 February in 1939, the Earth Rabbit, 1996, the Fire Rat, and 2015, the Wood Goat, and will again on 19 February 2034, the first day of the Wood Tiger. Only in 1920 and 1985, when it came on the 20th, did a 19 February birthday fall before it: 19 February 1985 belongs to the Wood Rat of 1984.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 19 February in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Aquarius into Pisces at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 19 February that instant has fallen inside the day in 72 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Aquarius, after it Pisces. To read one of these times on your own clock on 19 February, add your time zone's offset east of Greenwich or subtract it to the west, or put the year into the calculator above, which works in your own time zone.
Every year from 1920 to 2026. Where a cell shows a time, the sun entered Pisces at that moment, UTC. Why the day moves →
Other time zones
A date begins earlier east of Greenwich and later to the west, so in these years the sun changed sign on the day before or after in UTC, at a moment when clocks somewhere on earth already, or still, showed 19 February — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 19 February that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1949: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 23:27 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 22:41 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 21:58 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 21:17 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 20:48 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 19:55 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 19:02 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 18:31 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 17:52 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 23:46 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 17:08 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 22:58 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 16:21 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 22:14 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 15:35 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 21:22 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 14:52 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 20:55 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 14:28 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 20:13 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 13:32 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 19:25 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 12:47 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 18:35 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 12:02 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 17:59 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 23:50 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 11:32 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 17:18 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 23:04 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 10:44 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 16:43 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 22:34 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 10:07 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Pisces on 18 February, 15:52 UTC
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 19 February in 2 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 105 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1939, 1996 and 2015.
Shaded: 19 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 19 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 19 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 February falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Sunday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Friday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 19 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 19 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,779 babies were born on 19 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 284th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 19 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolaus Copernicus | 1473–1543 | Polish mathematician and astronomer |
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | 1953– | president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 |
| Svante Arrhenius | 1859–1927 | Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | 1940–2006 | President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006 |
| André Breton | 1896–1966 | French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism |
| Jennifer Doudna | 1964– | American biochemist |
| Millie Bobby Brown | 2004– | English actress |
| David Gross | 1941– | American particle physicist and string theorist |
| Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor | 1960– | third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
| Benicio del Toro | 1967– | Puerto Rican actor |
| Shivaji | 1630–1680 | Indian ruler, king of the Marathas from 1674 to 1680 |
| Élie Ducommun | 1833–1906 | Swiss activist |
| Victoria Justice | 1993– | American actress and singer |
| Lee Marvin | 1924–1987 | American actor |
| Constantin Brâncuși | 1876–1957 | Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter |
| Mauro Icardi | 1993– | Argentine association football player |
| Marta | 1986– | Brazilian footballer |
| Sócrates | 1954–2011 | Brazilian association football player |
Died on 19 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Umberto Eco | 1932–2016 | Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist |
| André Gide | 1869–1951 | French author and Nobel laureate |
| Deng Xiaoping | 1904–1997 | Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989 |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859–1952 | Norwegian novelist |
| Harper Lee | 1926–2016 | American novelist |
| Ernst Mach | 1838–1916 | Austrian physicist |
| Karl Weierstrass | 1815–1897 | German mathematician |
| Karl Lagerfeld | 1933–2019 | German fashion designer |
| Georg Büchner | 1813–1837 | German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose |
| Robert Coleman Richardson | 1937–2013 | American physicist |
| Multatuli | 1820–1887 | Dutch author |
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser | 1928–2000 | Austrian artist |
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