Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump
1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1848 - Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
1878 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)
1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873)
1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
1984 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1986 - V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
1989 - Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
1991 - Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)
1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
1998 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
2000 - John Lindsay, American politician (b. 1921)
2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)
2002 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926)
2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 - Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (b. 1913)
2004 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
401 - Pope Anastasius I