Notable deaths on February 19

Brazilian filmmaker (1936–2020)

American rapper (1999–2020)

German fashion designer (1933–2019)

American jazz guitarist (1943–2017)

Japanese anime screenwriter

American novelist (1926–2016)

Polish survivor of Treblinka (1923–2016)

Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)

American boxer (1928–2015)

American actor, comedian, writer, and musician (1984–2015)

Indian film director (1947–2015)

American astronaut (1948–2014)

Danish footballer (1946-2014)

Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1935–2014)

American economist (1914–2013)

American writer and film historian (1924–2013)

Canadian politician

South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and actor

American experimental physicist (1937–2013)

Czech author and songwriter (born 1932)

American philosopher

Soviet politician (1926–2012)

American football player and sprinter (1930–2011)

British bassist (1945–2009)