Famous Deaths on 19th April

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843 - Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1044 - Gothelo, duke of Neth-Lotharingen, dies
1054 - Leo IX, [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54), dies at 51
1390 - Robert II, King of Scots, dies
1529 - John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
1560 - Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63
1567 - Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies
1608 - Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies
1618 - Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1645 - Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at about 51
1645 - William Smith, composer, dies at 42
1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 - Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies
1706 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies
1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 - Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
1770 - Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74
1772 - Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66
1773 - Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43
1776 - Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
1791 - Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
1799 - Pieter Hellendaal, violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 78
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67
1824 - George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36
1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1852 - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1862 - Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1862 - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
1867 - Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
1870 - Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
1870 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59
1870 - William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
1874 - Owen Jones, architect, dies
1876 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
1881 - Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53
Naturalist Charles Darwin (1882) 1882 - Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist (Origin of Species), dies at 73
1889 - Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1893 - John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies
1895 - George Scharf, critic, dies
1895 - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
1901 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 - Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1923 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75
1926 - Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1932 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77
1937 - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
1938 - Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
1941 - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63
1943 - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 - Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76
1943 - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1944 - Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
1945 - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 - Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66
1956 - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
1956 - Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47
1956 - Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head milt intelligence Neth-Indies, dies at 52
1957 - Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
1957 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
1964 - Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies
1965 - George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1967) 1967 - Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1968 - Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
1972 - Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
1978 - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
1980 - Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1980 - Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
1981 - Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85
1983 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
1983 - Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
1986 - Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
1986 - Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
1987 - Maxwell D Taylor, US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1990 - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1992 - Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
1992 - Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
1992 - Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
1992 - Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1992 - Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1993 - David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
1993 - George Mickelson, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
1994 - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
1994 - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
1994 - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87
1994 - Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
1994 - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
1995 - "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66
1995 - Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64
1995 - J Peter Grace Jr, CEO (W R Grace), dies from cancer at 81
1995 - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
1996 - Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44
1996 - Norman Oldfield, cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), dies
1996 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
1997 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2005 - Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2006 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2008 - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2008 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
2009 - J.G. Ballard, British novelist. (b. 1930)
2010 - Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
2010 - Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 - Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
2011 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
2012 - Valeri Vasiliev, Society ice hockey defenceman, dies at 62