Famous Deaths on 19 Aug

Famous Deaths on 19 Aug

1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1975 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b.1937)
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 - Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)