Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1630 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)
1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1931 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1954 - Walter Bartley Wilson, founding member of Cardiff City F.C. (b. 1870)
1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
1960 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1983 - Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1985 - Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
1987 - Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)
1990 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1992 - Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
2001 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 - Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 - Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
498 - Pope Anastasius II