August 19 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)


• 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)


• 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 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)


• 1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)


• 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 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)


• 2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)


• 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)