Deaths on 19 January
2000s
Valentino (fashion designer)
2026
Italian fashion designer (1932–2026)
Jeff Torborg
2025
American baseball player and manager (1941–2025)
Miguel Ferrer
2017
American actor (1955–2017)
Richard Levins
2016
American Marxist biologist (1930–2016)
Ettore Scola
2016
Italian screenwriter and film director (1931–2016)
Sheila Sim
2016
English actress (1922–2016)
Justin Capră
2015
Romanian engineer (1933–2015)
Michel Guimond
2015
Canadian politician
Ward Swingle
2015
Musical artist
Azaria Alon
2014
Christopher Chataway
2014
British runner, broadcaster and politician (1931–2014)
Taihō Kōki
2013
Japanese sumo wrestler (1940–2013)
Stan Musial
2013
American baseball player (1920–2013)
Frank Pooler
2013
American conductor
Earl Weaver
2013
American baseball manager (1930–2013)
Toktamış Ateş
2013
Turkish academic and political commentator
Peter Åslin
2012
Swedish ice hockey player
Sarah Burke
2012
Canadian freeskier (1982–2012)
Winston Riley
2012
Jamaican singer-songwriter
Rudi van Dantzig
2012
Dutch dancer and choreographer
Bill McLaren
2010
Scottish rugby union player, sports broadcaster & journalist
Suzanne Pleshette
2008
American actress (1937–2008)
John Stewart (musician)
2008
American singer-songwriter (1939–2008)
Don Wittman
2008
Canadian sportscaster (1936–2008)
Hrant Dink
2007
Turkish-Armenian journalist (1954–2007)
Denny Doherty
2007
Canadian singer and musician (1940–2007)
Murat Nasyrov
2007
Russian singer (1969–2007)
Anthony Franciosa
2006
American actor (1928–2006)
Wilson Pickett
2006
American singer and songwriter (1941–2006)
K. Sello Duiker
2005
South African writer (1974–2005)
Harry E. Claiborne
2004
American judge (1917–2004)
David Hookes
2004
Australian cricketer
Milton Flores
2003
Honduran footballer (1974-2003)
Françoise Giroud
2003
French journalist, writer, and politician (1916–2003)
Vavá
2002
Brazilian footballer (1934–2002)
Rúhíyyih Khánum
2000
Wife of Baháʼí leader Shoghi Effendi
Bettino Craxi
2000
Italian politician (1934–2000)
Hedy Lamarr
2000
Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914–2000)
1900s
Ivan Francescato
1999
Italy international rugby union player
Robert Eugene Brashers
1999
American serial killer and rapist (1958–1999)
Carl Perkins
1998
American guitarist (1932–1998)
James Dickey
1997
American poet and novelist (1923-1997)
Don Simpson
1996
American film producer, screenwriter and actor (1943–1996)
Gene MacLellan
1995
Canadian singer-songwriter
Marcel Chaput
1991
Canadian politician
Rajneesh
1990
Indian mystic (1931–1990)
Alberto Semprini
1990
English musical artist (1908–1990)
Herbert Wehner
1990
German politician (1906–1990)
Max Bentley
1984
Canadian ice hockey player
Ham (chimpanzee)
1983
First great ape launched into space (1957–1983)
Elis Regina
1982
Brazilian singer
Francesca Woodman
1981
American photographer (1958–1981)
William O. Douglas
1980
American jurist (1898–1980)
Moritz Jahn (writer)
1979
German novelist and an educator (1884–1979)
Hidetsugu Yagi
1976
Japanese electrical engineer
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
1975
American painter (1889–1975)
Max Adrian
1973
Irish actor
Michael Rabin
1972
American violinist (1936–1972)
Ray Harroun
1968
American racing driver (1879–1968)
Arnold Luhaäär
1965
Estonian weightlifter (1905–1965)
Firmin Lambot
1964
Belgian cyclist
Clement Smoot
1963
American golfer (1884–1963)
József Dudás
1957
Hungarian revolutionary (1912–1957)
Theodor Kaluza
1954
German mathematician and physicist
Tony Garnier (architect)
1948
French architect (1869–1948)
Gustave Mesny
1945
French Army general
Branislav Nušić
1938
Serbian playwright (1864–1938)
Frank P. Ramsey
1930
British philosopher, mathematician and economist (1903–1930)
Liang Qichao
1929
Chinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
Ernest de Munck
1915
Belgian cellist and composer (1840–1915)
Bartolomé Mitre
1906
President of Argentina
1800s
António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra
1895
Portuguese judge, lawyer and politician
Henri Victor Regnault
1878
French physicist (1810–1878)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
1874
German poet (1798–1874)
Carl Reichenbach
1869
German scientist and philosopher (1788–1869)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1865
French philosopher and economist (1809–1865)
Felix Zollicoffer
1862
American newspaperman, politician, and soldier (1812 – 1862)
Karl Faber
1853
German historian and archivist (1773–1853)
Esteban Echeverría
1851
Argentine poet and writer
Charles Bent
1847
American politician (1799–1847)
Athanasios Christopoulos
1847
Greek poet, scholar, and jurist (1772–1847)
Ferdinand Hérold
1833
French composer (1791–1833)
Before 1800
Jonathan Toup
1785
British philologist (1713–1785)
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
1766
Italian painter (1695–1766)
Thomas Ruddiman
1757
Scottish classical scholar (1674–1757)
Jean-Pierre Christin
1755
French scientist (1683–1755)
William Congreve
1729
British playwright, poet and colonial administrator (1670-1729)
Thomas Venner
1661
English cooper and rebel
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
1636
Flemish painter (c. 1561/62 – 1636)
Maharana Pratap
1597
Maharana of Mewar from 1572 to 1597
Hans Sachs
1576
German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker
Paris Bordone
1571
Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance
Diego Laynez
1565
Spanish priest (1512–1565)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
1547
English poet (1516/17–1547)
Isabella of Austria
1526
Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1515 to 1523
Al-Hakim I
1302
2nd Abbasid caliph in Mamluk Cairo
Kilian of Cologne
1003
García I of León
914
King of León from 910 to 914
Dagobert I
639
King of the Franks in Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy
John of Cappadocia
520
Patriarch of Constantinople from 518 to 520