Deaths on 19 March
2000s
Chuck Norris
2026
American martial artist and actor (1940–2026)
Glynn Lunney
2021
NASA engineer (1936–2021)
William Whitfield (architect)
2019
British architect (1920–2019)
Roger Agnelli
2016
Jack Mansell
2016
English football player and manager (1927–2016)
Gus Douglass
2015
American politician (1927–2015)
Safet Plakalo
2015
Bosnian writer (1950–2015)
Danny Schechter
2015
American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic
Patrick Joseph McGovern
2014
Billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
Fred Phelps
2014
American pastor and activist (1929–2014)
Heather Robertson
2014
Canadian journalist, novelist and non-fiction writer (1942–2014)
Robert S. Strauss
2014
American diplomat (1918–2014)
Lawrence Walsh
2014
American judge (1912–2014)
Joseph F. Weis Jr.
2014
American judge
Jim Case
2012
American film producer
Ulu Grosbard
2012
Belgian-American theatre and film director
Hugo Munthe-Kaas
2012
Kym Bonython
2011
Australian artist, driver, and politician (1920–2011)
Maria Bergson
2009
American interior designer, industrial designer, and architect
Arthur C. Clarke
2008
British science fiction writer (1917–2008)
Hugo Claus
2008
Belgian author (1929–2008)
Paul Scofield
2008
English actor (1922–2008)
John DeLorean
2005
American automobile engineer and executive (1925–2005)
Mitchell Sharp
2004
Canadian politician (1911–2004)
Michael Mathias Prechtl
2003
German artist
Joanne Weaver
2000
Baseball player
Shafiq-ur-Rahman (humorist)
2000
Pakistani humorist, physician and writer (1920-2000)
1900s
Tofilau Eti Alesana
1999
5th Prime Minister of Samoa
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
1998
Indian politician (1909–1998)
Willem de Kooning
1997
Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)
Eugène Guillevic
1997
French poet
Lise Østergaard
1996
Danish government minister
Alan Ridout
1996
British composer
Virginia Henderson
1996
American nurse and writer
Henrik Sandberg
1993
Danish film producer
Andrew Wood (singer)
1990
American rock musician (1966–1990)
Bun Cook
1988
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Louis de Broglie
1987
French theoretical physicist (1892–1987)
Sabino Barinaga
1986
Spanish footballer and manager
Garry Winogrand
1984
American street photographer (1928–1984)
J. B. Kripalani
1982
Indian politician (1888-1982)
Randy Rhoads
1982
American guitarist (1956–1982)
M. A. Ayyangar
1978
Indian politician
William L. Laurence
1977
American journalist
Albert Dieudonné
1976
French actor, screenwriter, film director, and novelist
Paul Kossoff
1976
English guitarist (1950–1976)
Dmytro Doroshenko
1951
Ukrainian historian and politician (1882–1951)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1950
American writer (1875–1950)
Norman Haworth
1950
British chemist (1883–1950)
James Somerville
1949
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1882–1949)
James Newland
1949
Australian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient
Maud Howe Elliott
1948
American writer (1854–1948)
James A. Gilmore
1947
American baseball executive (1876–1947)
William Hale Thompson
1944
American politician (1869–1944)
Clinton Hart Merriam
1942
American zoologist and ornithologist
Arthur Balfour
1930
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905
Henry Lefroy
1930
Australian politician (1854–1930)
Emma Bell Miles
1919
American poet
Giuseppe Mercalli
1914
Italian volcanologist and priest (1850–1914)
John Bingham
1900
American politician (1815–1900)
Charles-Louis Hanon
1900
French piano teacher and composer (1819–1900)
1800s
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie
1897
Irish-born Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer
Elias Lönnrot
1884
Finnish polymath and poet (1802–1884)
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
1871
Austrian mineralogist (1795–1871)
Philip Mazzei
1816
Italian physician, winemaker, philosopher, diplomat and author
Before 1800
Philip Hayes (composer)
1797
English composer, musician and conductor
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha
1790
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1790
Frederick Cornwallis
1783
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1768 to 1783
Pope Clement XI
1721
Head of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
1717
Scottish politician (1636–1717)
Thomas Ken
1711
English cleric and bishop (1637–1711)
Nicolaus Bruhns
1697
Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
1687
French explorer of North America (1643–1687)
Thomas Killigrew
1683
English dramatist and theatre manager (1612–1683)
Gerardus Vossius
1649
Dutch classical scholar and theologian (1577–1649)
Péter Pázmány
1637
Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate of Hungary
Zofia of Słuck
1612
Lithuanian Orthodox saint (1585–1612)
Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
1581
Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell
1568
English noblewoman
Arthur Brooke (poet)
1563
English poet
Lord Edmund Howard
1539
16th-century English nobleman
Michael Weiße
1534
German theologian and hymn writer
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
1533
English soldier, statesman and translator (1467–1533)
John II, Marquis of Montferrat
1372
Margrave of Montferrat from 1338 (1321–1372)
Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
1330
English prince and nobleman (1301–1330)
Alexander III of Scotland
1286
King of Alba from 1249 to 1286
Zhao Bing
1279
Emperor of Song China from 1278 to 1279
Hugh of Saint-Cher
1263
French biblical scholar (c. 1200–1263)
Henry the Bearded
1238
High Duke of Poland from 1232 to 1238
Emma of Paris, Duchess of Normandy
968
Duchess consort of Normandy (c. 943–968)
Al-Mansur Billah
953
Fatimid ruler (r. 946–953) and 13th Ismaili Imam
Severus Alexander
235
Roman emperor from 222 to 235