December 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 211 – Publius Septimius Geta – Roman Emperor (b. 189)
• 401 – Pope Anastasius I
• 1111 – Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher (b. 1058)
• 1075 – Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor
• 1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
• 1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
• 1737 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
• 1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
• 1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
• 1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
• 1751 – Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
• 1807 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
• 1813 – James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
• 1814 – Joseph Bramah, British inventor and locksmith (b. 1748)
• 1819 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
• 1848 – Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
• 1878 – Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
• 1927 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary (b. 1900)
• 1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 – George Jackson Churchward, British locomotive engineer. (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (b. 1873)
• 1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
• 1944 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
• 1946 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
• 1953 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
• 1982 – Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 1986 – V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1989 – Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
• 1993 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
• 1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
• 2000 – Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – John Lindsay, American politician (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
• 2000 – David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (b. 1963)
• 2001 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
• 2002 – Arthur Rowley, English footballer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth) (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
• 2008 – James Bevel, American civil rights activist (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Kenny Cox, American jazz musician (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Trudy Pitts, American jazz organist, pianist, and vocalist (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Anthony Howard, English Journalist (b. 1934)