19 April Deaths

Published : 19 Apr 2019, 10:39

Sahos Desk

April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

843 – Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress
1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint (b. 954)
1013 – Hisham II, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)
1044 – Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine
1054 – Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
1321 – Gerasimus I, patriarch of Constantinople
1390 – Robert II, king of Scotland (b. 1316)
1405 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)[2]
1431 – Adolph III, count of Waldeck (b. 1362)
1560 – Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 – Michael Stifel, German monk and 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 poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
1618 – Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (b. 1566)
1619 – Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (b. 1573)[3]
1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1632 – Sigismund III Vasa, king of Sweden and Poland (b. 1566)
1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
1689 – Christina, queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
1791 – Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
1893 – Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1909 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
1915 – Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
1955 – Jim Corbett, Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1971 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
1987 – Hugh Brannum, American vocalist, arranger, and composer (b. 1910)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)
1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)
1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959)
1993 – George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
2001 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
2002 – Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)
2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
2005 – George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor and author (b. 1929)
2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)
2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1963)
2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (b. 1935)
2009 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. (b. 1930)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2012 – Greg Ham, Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (b. 1953)
2012 – Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and actor (b. 1940)
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
2013 – Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
2013 – Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (b. 1918)
2013 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)
2013 – François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2013 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)
2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
2014 – Lindy Berry, American football player (b. 1927)
2014 – Ian McIntyre, Scottish journalist and producer (b. 1930)
2014 – Frits Thors, Dutch journalist (b. 1909)
2015 – Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919)
2015 – William Price Fox, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
2015 – Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924)
2015 – Tom McCabe, Scottish social worker and politician (b. 1954)
2015 – Oktay Sinanoğlu, Italian-Turkish chemist and academic (b. 1935)
2016 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918)
2016 – Milt Pappas, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2017 – Aaron Hernandez, American football player (b. 1989)

Source: wikipedia

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