June 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
• 1205 – Roman the Great, Rus' prince (b. 1151)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, British nobelman (b. c. 1284)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
• 1584 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American colonial governor (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American military commander (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette (b. 1786)
• 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19^th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1918)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
• 1977 – Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1987 – Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
• 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American politician (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – John Heyer, Australian documentarian (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Steve Broadie, American voice actor
• 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)