Famous Deaths on 19 May

Famous Deaths on 19 May

1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
1958 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
1958 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777)
1969 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)
1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
1984 - John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
1994 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
1998 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1999 - James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
1999 - Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
2007 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
804 - Alcuin, English monk (b. c. 735)
988 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)