Famous Deaths on 19 Apr

Famous Deaths on 19 Apr

1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
1618 - Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682/3)
1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1901 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (b. 1917)
1992 - Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
1993 - George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
1997 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2006 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2008 - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2008 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)