April 19 - Deaths

Deaths

1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1321 – Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
1390 – 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 (b. 1528)
1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
1618 – Thomas Bastard, English clergyman (b. 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 – Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1751 – Peter Lacy, Irish-Russian field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian (b. 1745)
1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, English admiral (b. 1756)
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1892 – T. Pelham Dale, English clergyman (b. 1821)
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American writer and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (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, designer, and entrepreneur (b. 1839)
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman, statesman, and senator (b. 1827)
1937 – William Martin Conway, British critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian conservationist, author and hunter (b. 1875)
1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (b. 1894)
1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot, first female pilot in Korea (b. 1901)
1989 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-Australian producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
1993 – Joseph Wallace, American murder victim (b. 1990)
1996 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer (b. 1959)
1997 – Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (b. 1958)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
1999 – David Sanes, American navy employee (b. 1954)
2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English Khalifatul Masih IV and Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (b. 1928)
2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of The Freedom Association (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek director (b. 1941)
2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 – Helen Walton, American businesswomen, wife of 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, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (b. 1935)
2009 – J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
2010 – Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (b. 1961)
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 – Carl Williams, Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970)
2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2012 – Greg Ham, Australian musician, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (b. 1953)
2012 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (The Band) (b. 1940)
2012 – Gustaf Jansson, Swedish athlete (b. 1922)
2012 – Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (b. 1964)
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)