April 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
• 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
• 1390 – King 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, clergyman and epigrammatist
• 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 – Queen 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-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
• 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
• 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (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, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (b. 1756)
• 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
• 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
• 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
• 1892 – Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
• 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (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 (b. 1839)
• 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
• 1937 – William Martin Conway, British art 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)
• 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
• 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
• 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
• 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
• 1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
• 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
• 1997 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
• 1999 – David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
• 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Layne Staley, American musician, Alice in Chains (b. 1967)
• 2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
• 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film 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 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder 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, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
• 2009 – J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
• 2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
• 2010 – Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)