May 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. c.735)
• 988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
• 1102 – Stephen II, Count of Blois (b. c.1045)
• 1125 – Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
• 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
• 1319 – Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
• 1389 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
• 1526 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• 1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501 or 1507)
• 1601 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528 or 1529)
• 1610 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• 1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1715 – Charles Montagu, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
• 1795 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1798 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman, and duelist (b. 1722)
• 1821 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
• 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1865 – Sengge Rinchen, Mongol Qing Dynasty field marshal (b. 1811)
• 1876 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
• 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1903 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
• 1904 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
• 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
• 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
• 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
• 1918 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
• 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier, known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
• 1940 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (b. 1889)
• 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 – Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Walter Russell, American polymath (b. 1871)
• 1965 – Tu'i Malila, the world's oldest tortoise (b. circa 1777)
• 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Li Tobler, Swiss actress (b. 1948)
• 1983 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 – John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
• 1986 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
• 1987 – James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States 1961-1963 (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
• 1999 – James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
• 1999 – Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
• 2004 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English vocalist (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Nicholas Maw, British composer (b. 1935)