History Deaths on April 19

Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)

#Signe_Rink

Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)

#Georges-Casimir_Dessaulles

Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)

#Michael_Stifel

Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

#Konrad_Adenauer

Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint (b. 954)

#Ælfheah_of_Canterbury

Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)

#Ruth_Hussey

Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)

#Jean-Jacques_Lartigue

Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (b. 1935)

#Alfonso_López_Trujillo

Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)

#Al_Neuharth

Hisham II, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)

#Hisham_II

Robert II, king of Scotland (b. 1316)

#Robert_II_of_Scotland

David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959)

#David_Koresh

Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)

#Canaletto

Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)

#Sivanthi_Adithan

Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)

#Jean-Pierre_Cassel

Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)

#Robert_Jameson

James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)

#James_Gambier,_1st_Baron_Gambier

Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

#Octavio_Paz

Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)

#Mike_Denness

Frits Thors, Dutch journalist (b. 1909)

#Frits_Thors

Sigismund III Vasa, king of Sweden and Poland (b. 1566)

#Sigismund_III_Vasa

Milt Pappas, American baseball player (b. 1939)

#Milt_Pappas

Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)

#Pope_Leo_IX

Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)

#Thomas_West,_1st_Baron_West

Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)

#Ephraim_Shay

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)

#Thomas_Sackville,_1st_Earl_of_Dorset

Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)

#Elizabeth_Hamilton,_Countess_of_Orkney

Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)

#Martin_Körber

Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)

#Richard_Price

Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)

#Hermine_Braunsteiner

Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)

#Mirza_Tahir_Ahmad

John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)

#John_Maynard_Smith

Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)

#Alexander_Alexandrovich_Chuprov

Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and actor (b. 1940)

#Levon_Helm

Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)

#Alfred_Horatio_Belo

Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress

#Judith_of_Bavaria_(died_843)

Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (b. 1573)

#Jagat_Gosain

Aaron Hernandez, American football player (b. 1989)

#Aaron_Hernandez

Jim Corbett, Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)

#Jim_Corbett

Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)

#Albert_Scott_Crossfield

Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)

#Benjamin_Disraeli

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)

#Martin_Conway,_1st_Baron_Conway_of_Allington

Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

#Pierre_Curie

Tom McCabe, Scottish social worker and politician (b. 1954)

#Tom_McCabe

Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)

#Antonio_de_Solís_y_Ribadeneyra

Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)

#Norris_McWhirter

Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)

#Uesugi_Kenshin

Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)

#Philip_Melanchthon

Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)

#Charles_Sanders_Peirce

Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)

#Louis_Applebaum

Greg Ham, Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (b. 1953)

#Greg_Ham

William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)

#William_Morton_Wheeler

Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)

#Daphne_du_Maurier

George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)

#George_S._Mickelson

Hugh Brannum, American vocalist, arranger, and composer (b. 1910)

#Hugh_Brannum

Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)

#Spencer_Gore_(sportsman)

François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)

#François_Jacob

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)

#Niels-Henning_Ørsted_Pedersen

Christina, queen of Sweden (b. 1626)

#Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden

Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)

#Benjamin_Rush

Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)

#Nicholas_Saunderson

Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor and author (b. 1929)

#Clement_Meadmore

Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)

#Lord_Byron

Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)

#Ulrich_Salchow

Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)

#Thomas_Playford_II

Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918)

#Patricio_Aylwin

Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)

#Frankie_Howerd

Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)

#Charles_Darwin

Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)

#Paolo_Veronese

Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)

#Elisabeth_Sladen

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)

#Johann_Gottlieb_Friedrich_von_Bohnenberger

Oktay Sinano?lu, Italian-Turkish chemist and academic (b. 1935)

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924)

William Price Fox, American journalist and author (b. 1926)

Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919)

Ian McIntyre, Scottish journalist and producer (b. 1930)

Lindy Berry, American football player (b. 1927)

E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)

Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (b. 1918)

Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)

Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)

J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. (b. 1930)

John Marzano, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1963)

George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)

Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)

Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)

Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)

Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)

Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)

Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)

Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)

Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)

Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)

Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)

Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)

Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (b. 1566)

Adolph III, count of Waldeck (b. 1362)

Gerasimus I, patriarch of Constantinople

Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine