November 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 498 – Pope Anastasius II
• 1478 – Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
• 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
• 1557 – Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
• 1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
• 1630 – Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
• 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
• 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
• 1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
• 1682 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
• 1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
• 1703 – The Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner (exact identity unknown)
• 1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
• 1772 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
• 1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
• 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
• 1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
• 1804 – Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
• 1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
• 1823 – Alvin Smith, Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1798)
• 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
• 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
• 1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
• 1883 – William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
• 1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
• 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
• 1915 – Joe Hill, American labor activist (b. 1879)
• 1918 – Joseph F. Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
• 1924 – Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
• 1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
• 1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (b. 1892)
• 1943 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29^th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
• 1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker (b.1860)
• 1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson, English artist (b. 1870)
• 1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Charles J. Watters, American Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
• 1974 – George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Christina Onassis, American-born Greek heiress and socialite (b. 1950)
• 1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Terry Melcher, American record producer; son of Doris Day (b. 1942)
• 2004 – John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
• 2004 – George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
• 2007 – Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Daul Kim, South Korean fashion model (b. 1989)
• 2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1952)