October 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 727 – Saint Frideswide
• 1187 – Pope Urban III
• 1216 – King John of England (b. 1167)
• 1432 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
• 1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
• 1608 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
• 1636 – Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
• 1682 – Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
• 1723 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
• 1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
• 1790 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
• 1796 – Michel de Beaupuy, French general of the Revolution (b. 1755)
• 1813 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
• 1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (b. 1755)
• 1842 – Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
• 1851 – Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (b. 1778)
• 1856 – William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
• 1889 – King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1893 – Lucy Stone, American suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1818)
• 1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
• 1901 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
• 1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1936 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
• 1937 – Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
• 1956 – Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
• 1960 – George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
• 1964 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Lázaro Cárdenas, President of Mexico (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
• 1984 – Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest, associated with the Solidarity union, murdered by the agents of internal intelligence agency (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
• 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
• 1987 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
• 1987 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1994 – Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
• 1999 – James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
• 2003 – Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
• 2005 – Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
• 2005 – Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
• 2006 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
• 2007 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)