Deaths on 19 April
2000s
Daniel Dennett
2024
American philosopher (1942–2024)
Moonbin
2023
South Korean singer and actor (1998–2023)
Ron Hamilton (musician)
2023
American musician (1950–2023)
Kane Tanaka
2022
Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022)
Walter Mondale
2021
Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Jim Steinman
2021
American musical artist (1947–2021)
Ian Whitcomb
2020
English singer-songwriter (1941–2020)
Lu Chao-Hsuan
2017
Taiwanese guitarist (1929-2017)
Patricio Aylwin
2016
President of Chile from 1990 to 1994
Raymond Carr
2015
English historian
Roy Mason
2015
British politician (1924-2015)
François Jacob
2013
French biologist
Al Neuharth
2013
American businessman (1924–2013)
Levon Helm
2012
American drummer and vocalist (1940–2012)
Elisabeth Sladen
2011
British actress (1946–2011)
J. G. Ballard
2009
English writer (1930–2009)
Jean-Pierre Cassel
2007
French actor and dancer (1932–2007)
Albert Scott Crossfield
2006
American test pilot (1921–2006)
Norris McWhirter
2004
English writer
John Maynard Smith
2004
English biologist and geneticist (1920–2004)
Jenny Pike
2004
Canadian photographer and servicewoman
Reginald Rose
2002
American playwright and screenwriter (1920–2002)
Louis Applebaum
2000
Canadian film score composer
1900s
Hermine Braunsteiner
1999
Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard (1919–1999)
Octavio Paz
1998
Mexican writer, poet and diplomat (1914–1998)
David Koresh
1993
American religious cult leader (1959–1993)
George S. Mickelson
1993
Governor of South Dakota from 1987 to 1993
Frankie Howerd
1992
English actor and comedian (1917–1992)
Stanley Hawes
1991
British-born documentary film producer and director
Daphne du Maurier
1989
English novelist (1907–1989)
Kwon Ki-ok
1988
First female Korean aviator (1901–1988)
Percy Lavon Julian
1975
American research chemist (1899–1975)
Luigi Piotti
1971
Italian racing driver (1913–1971)
Konrad Adenauer
1967
Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963
Väinö Tanner
1966
Prime minister of Finland from 1926 to 1927
Max Hainle
1961
German swimmer
Beardsley Ruml
1960
American economist
Jim Corbett
1955
Anglo-Indian hunter, naturalist and author (1875–1955)
Steve Conway (singer)
1952
English singer (1920–1952)
Ernst Robert Curtius
1950
German philologist and literary scholar
Ulrich Salchow
1949
Swedish figure skater
Johanna Müller-Hermann
1941
Austrian composer and pedagogue (1868 - 1941)
Jack McNeela
1940
Irish militant and Republican activist
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
1937
British politician
William Morton Wheeler
1937
U.S. entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor (1865–1937)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles
1930
Canadian politician
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov
1926
Russian mathematician (1874–1926)
Ephraim Shay
1916
American railroad engineer and entrepreneur (1839 – 1916)
Thomas Playford II
1915
Australian politician (1837–1915)
Charles Sanders Peirce
1914
American scientist (1839–1914)
Signe Rink
1909
Danish writer and ethnologist (1836–1909)
Pierre Curie
1906
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
Spencer Gore (sportsman)
1906
British tennis player
Oliver Mowat
1903
Canadian lawyer and Father of Confederation (1820–1903)
Alfred Horatio Belo
1901
American newspaper founder (1839–1901)
1800s
Martin Körber
1893
Baltic German pastor, composer
Charles Darwin
1882
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Benjamin Disraeli
1881
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874–1880)
Robert Jameson
1854
British scientist (1774–1854)
Jean-Jacques Lartigue
1840
Canadian Sulpician
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier
1833
Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator (1756–1833)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger
1831
German astronomer
Lord Byron
1824
English poet (1788–1824)
Benjamin Rush
1813
American Founding Father, physician, educator (1746–1813)
Before 1800
Richard Price
1791
British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)
Jacob Emden
1776
German rabbi and talmudist (1697–1776)
Canaletto
1768
Italian painter of landscapes (1697–1768)
Nicholas Saunderson
1739
English mathematician and scientist (1682–1739)
Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney
1733
English courtier and the reputed mistress of William III (1657–1733)
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1689
Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra
1686
Spanish dramatist and historian
Sigismondo d'India
1629
Italian composer (c1582 – before 1629)
Jagat Gosain
1619
Empress Consort of Mughal Emperor Jahangir
Thomas Bastard
1618
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
1608
English politician and poet (1536–1608)
Paolo Veronese
1588
Italian Renaissance painter (1528–1588)
Uesugi Kenshin
1578
Japanese daimyo (1530–1578)
Michael Stifel
1567
German mathematician (1487–1567)
Philip Melanchthon
1560
German Lutheran reformer and theologian (1497–1560)
Adolph III, Count of Waldeck
1431
Count of Waldeck-Landau
Thomas West, 1st Baron West
1405
English nobleman
Robert II of Scotland
1390
King of Scots from 1371 to 1390
Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1321
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1320 to 1321
Pope Leo IX
1054
Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine
1044
Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 to 1044
Hisham II
1013
Caliph of Córdoba (r. 976–1009; 1010–1013)
Ælfheah of Canterbury
1012
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1006 to 1012
Judith of Bavaria (died 843)
843
Carolingian empress from 819 to 840