Deaths on 19 May
2000s
Christian Malanga
2024
Congolese politician and military officer (1983β2024)
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
2024
Iranian politician (1964β2024)
Ebrahim Raisi
2024
President of Iran from 2021 to 2024
Andy Rourke
2023
English musician (1964β2023)
Paul Mooney (comedian)
2021
American writer and entertainer (1941β2021)
Zhengzhang Shangfang
2018
Chinese linguist (1933β2018)
Nawshirwan Mustafa
2017
Iraqi Kurdish politician
Stanislav Petrov
2017
Soviet Air Defence Forces officer (1939β2017)
Alan Young
2016
British actor (1919β2016)
Morley Safer
2016
Canadian-American reporter and correspondent (1931β2016)
Bruce Lundvall
2015
American record company executive (1935β2015)
Ted McWhinney
2015
Canadian politician and lawyer
Happy Rockefeller
2015
Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Robert S. Wistrich
2015
Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1945β2015)
Simon Andrews (motorcyclist)
2014
British motorcycle racer
Jack Brabham
2014
Australian racing driver and motorsport executive (1926β2014)
Sam Greenlee
2014
American novelist and poet (1930β2014)
Vincent Harding
2014
American historian and pastor
Gabriel Kolko
2014
American historian (1932β2014)
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
2014
Polish boxer (1934β2014)
G. Sarsfield Ford
2013
American judge
Robin Harrison (pianist)
2013
Neil Reynolds
2013
Canadian politician (1940β2013)
Bob Boozer
2012
American basketball player (1937β2012)
Tamara Brooks
2012
American conductor (1941β2012)
Ian Burgess
2012
British racing driver (1930β2012)
Gerhard Hetz
2012
German swimmer (1942β2012)
Phil Lamason
2012
World War II pilot from New Zealand, Buchenwald concentration camp survivor (1918β2012)
Garret FitzGerald
2011
Taoiseach (1981β1982, 1982β1987)
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
2011
American painter
Robert F. Furchgott
2009
American biochemist (1916β2009)
Nicholas Maw
2009
British composer (1935β2009)
Clint Smith
2009
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Vijay Tendulkar
2008
Indian playwright (1928-2008)
Bernard Blaut
2007
Polish footballer (1940β2007)
Dean Eyre
2007
New Zealand politician
Mary Dresselhuys
2004
Dutch actress (1907β2004)
John Gorton
2002
Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971
Walter Lord
2002
American author (1917β2002)
Aleksey Maresyev
2001
Soviet World War II flying ace
Susannah McCorkle
2001
American jazz singer
1900s
SΕsuke Uno
1998
Prime Minister of Japan in 1989
John Beradino
1996
American baseball player and actor (1917β1996)
Jacques Ellul
1994
French anarchist philosopher (1912β1994)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
1994
First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
Luis OcaΓ±a
1994
Spanish cyclist (1945β1994)
Yiannis Papaioannou
1989
Greek composer and teacher
James Tiptree Jr.
1987
American sci-fi writer (1915β1987)
Jimmy Lyons (saxophonist)
1986
American alto saxophone player
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar
1985
John Betjeman
1984
English poet (1906β1984)
Jean Rey (politician)
1983
Belgian politician (1902β1983)
Joseph Schull
1980
Canadian playwright and historian
Albert Kivikas
1978
Estonian writer and journalist
Ogden Nash
1971
American poet (1902β1971)
Coleman Hawkins
1969
American jazz saxophonist (1904β1969)
Walter Russell
1963
American artist (1871β1963)
Gabriele MΓΌnter
1962
German painter (1877β1962)
Jadunath Sarkar
1958
Indian historian
Archie Scott Brown
1958
British racing driver (1927β1958)
Ronald Colman
1958
British and American actor (1891β1958)
Charles Ives
1954
American modernist composer (1874β1954)
Daniel Ciugureanu
1950
Moldovan-Romanian politician (1885β1950)
Booth Tarkington
1946
American novelist (1869β1946)
Philipp Bouhler
1945
German senior Nazi Party functionary (1899β1945)
Kristjan Raud
1943
Estonian painter
Ahmet AΔaoΔlu
1939
Turkish politician (1869β1939)
Marmaduke Pickthall
1936
English Islamic scholar (1875β1936)
T. E. Lawrence
1935
British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888β1935)
Raoul Lufbery
1918
French-American fighter pilot
John Simpson Kirkpatrick
1915
Australian soldier (1892β1915)
BolesΕaw Prus
1912
Polish novelist (1847β1912)
Benjamin Baker (engineer)
1907
British engineer (1840β1907)
Gabriel Dumont (MΓ©tis leader)
1906
MΓ©tis leader (1837β1906)
Auguste Molinier
1904
French historian (1851β1904)
Jamsetji Tata
1904
Indian industrialist (1839β1904)
Arthur Shrewsbury
1903
English cricketer (1856-1903)
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
1901
Founder of Pretoria, South Africa (1819-1901)
1800s
William Ewart Gladstone
1898
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868-74; 1880-85; 1886; 1892-94)
JosΓ© MartΓ
1895
Cuban national hero (1853β1895)
Peter W. Barlow
1885
English civil engineer (1809β1885)
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
1876
Dutch politician and historian (1801β1876)
John Baker (Australian politician)
1872
Australian politician
Sengge Rinchen
1865
Jasagh & Prince Bodlogotoi of the Horqin Left Rear Banner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864
American author (1804β1864)
Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
1831
Baltic German explorer and scientist (1793β1831)
Henri de Saint-Simon
1825
French early socialist theorist (1760β1825)
Camille Jordan (politician)
1821
French politician (1771β1821)
Before 1800
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
1798
British politician
Josiah Bartlett
1795
American Founding Father, physician, and judge
James Boswell
1795
Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740β1795)
John Stanley (composer)
1786
English composer and organist (1712β1786)
Button Gwinnett
1777
American Founding Father and politician
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
1715
British politician and poet (1661β1715)
Isaac Beeckman
1637
Dutch philosopher and scientist (1588β1637)
Mariam-uz-Zamani
1623
Empress Consort of Mughal Emperor Akbar
Thomas Sanchez
1610
Spanish theologian (1550β1610)
GarcΓa Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of CaΓ±ete
1609
Royal Governor of Chile (1535β1609)
Costanzo Porta
1601
Italian composer
Anne Boleyn
1536
Queen of England from 1533 to 1536
Jan Εaski (1456β1531)
1531
Polish nobleman (1456β1531)
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara
1526
Emperor of Japan from 1500 to 1526
John I of Aragon
1396
King of Aragon from 1387 to 1396
Dmitry Donskoy
1389
Prince of Moscow (1359β1389)
Louis, Count of Γvreux
1319
French prince (1276β1319)
Ivo of Kermartin
1303
Breton Catholic saint (1253β1303)
Pope Celestine V
1296
Head of the Catholic Church in 1294
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1218
Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 to 1218
Bashnouna
1164
Egyptian saint and martyr
Vladimir II Monomakh
1125
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1113 to 1125
Stephen, Count of Blois
1102
Count of Blois from 1089 to 1102
Dunstan
988
Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, Christian saint
Robert (archbishop of Trier)
956
Archbishop, politician, patron and reformer (died 956)
Alcuin
804
8th-century English scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher