August 19 - Deaths

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)
• 1692 – John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b.1632)
• 1753 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
• 1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (b. 1721)
• 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)
• 1928 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1838)
• 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)
• 1967 – Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1975 – Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Peter Dyneley, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1979 – Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(b. 1887)
• 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 littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
• 2000 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• 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)
• 2005 – Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
• 2008 – LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
• 2009 – Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)