Famous Deaths on 19th June

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1113 - Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
1312 - Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1341 - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1542 - Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1554 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1652 - Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1747 - Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1759 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1768 - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1794 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1811 - Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1820 - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1822 - John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1837 - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1864 - George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1867 - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies
1902 - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1915 - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1921 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
1922 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
1932 - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
1936 - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
1937 - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1940 - Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
1944 - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
1944 - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
1947 - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
1949 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
1956 - Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82
1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
1965 - James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72
1966 - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
1966 - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who), dies at 55
1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1982 - John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70
1984 - Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75
1984 - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41
1986 - Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
1986 - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 - Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 - Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1989 - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1989 - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81
1991 - Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies at 90
1992 - Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96
Nobel Laureate and Novelist William Golding (1993) 1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1994 - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
1994 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75
1994 - Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82
1995 - Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67
1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
1995 - Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1996 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
1996 - David Schine, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63
1996 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82
1996 - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
1997 - Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008 - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2009 - Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 - Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010 - Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)
2011 - Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
2012 - Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)