History Deaths on December 19

Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (b. 1981)

#Ned_Vizzini

Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)

#Bernabò_Visconti

James Bevel, American minister and activist (b. 1936)

#James_Bevel

Sancho I, king of León

#Sancho_I_of_León

Vitus Bering, Danish-Russian hydrographer and explorer (b. 1681)

#Vitus_Bering

Pope Urban V (b. 1310)

#Pope_Urban_V

Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (b. 1914)

#Desmond_Llewelyn

Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)

#Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo

Anthony Howard, English journalist and author (b. 1934)

#Anthony_Howard_(journalist)

Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)

#Stephen_Warfield_Gambrill

Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)

#Werner_Dankwort

Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (b. 1924)

#Marcello_Mastroianni

Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1922)

#Renata_Tebaldi

Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)

#Hope_Lange

Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)

#Ahmet_Emin_Yalman

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (b. 1944)

#Amnon_Lipkin-Shahak

Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)

#Paul_Langevin

Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)

#Vincent_Gigante

Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (b. 1936)

#Igor_Rodionov

Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565)

#Christina_of_Lorraine

Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)

#Henry_Ware_Lawton

Cornelius Grapheus, Flemish writer (b. 1482)

#Cornelius_Grapheus

Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)

#Bayard_Taylor

Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (b. 1927)

#Robert_Bork

Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)

#Alois_Alzheimer

Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)

#Yun_Bong-gil

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (b. 1723)

#Friedrich_Melchior,_Baron_von_Grimm

Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)

#Francesco_Antonio_Bonporti

Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1260)

#Agnes_of_France,_Duchess_of_Burgundy

Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)

#Rob_Buck

Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)

#Thibaw_Min

Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952)

#Will_Hoy

Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (b. 1924)

#Sara_Northrup_Hollister

Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)

#Norman_Thomas

Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)

#Jimmy_Rogers

Philip Bradbourn, English lawyer and politician (b. 1951)

#Philip_Bradbourn

John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)

#John_Lindsay

Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)

#Carol_Chomsky

Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)

#Andrei_Karlov

Karin Söder, Swedish educator and politician, 33rd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)

#Karin_Söder

Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)

#Rudolph_Karstadt

Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)

#Emily_Brontë

James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (b. 1744)

#James_McGill

Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (b. 1936)

#Al_Goldstein

Al-Ghazali, Iranian jurist, philosopher, and mystic (b. 1058)

#Al-Ghazali

Elizabeth of Luxembourg (b. 1409)

#Elizabeth_of_Luxembourg

Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)

#Abbas_II_of_Egypt

Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)

#Ashfaqulla_Khan

Thomas Fremantle, English admiral and politician (b. 1765)

#Thomas_Fremantle_(Royal_Navy_officer)

Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

#Robert_Andrews_Millikan

Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1928)

#Jimmy_Hill

Adelaide of Susa, margravine of Turin

#Adelaide_of_Susa

Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)

#Michael_Clarke_(musician)

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (b. 1928)

Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin), British writer, artist and TV producer (b. 1926).

Dick Thornton, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1939)

Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (b. 1910)

S. Balasubramanian, Indian journalist and director (b. 1936)

Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (b. 1916)

Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (b. 1943)

Larry Morris, American football player (b. 1933)

Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (b. 1945)

Michael Connell, American political consultant (b. 1963)

Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914)

George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1907)

Arthur Rowley, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)

Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (b. 1910)

Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)

Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (b. 1908)

Joe Cole, American roadie and author (b. 1961)

Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (b. 1914)

Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)

Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)

August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)

V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)

Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)

Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)

Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)

George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)

Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)

Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775)

Saint Berardo, Italian bishop and saint

Pope Anastasius I