Famous Deaths on October 19

727 Saint Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford, England
1187 Pope Urban III [Uberto Crivelli](1185-87)

King John (1166-1216)

King of England (1199-1216) and Lord of Ireland (1177-1216) who famously agreed to the Magna Carta, dies of dysentery whilst on campaign in the east of England at 49

1268 Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1354 Yusuf I [al-Muayyad billah], ruler of Granada (1333-54), assassinated while praying in the Great Mosque of Granada at 36
1432 John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1547 Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46
1553 Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano [de' Pitati], Italian painter, dies
1587 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist, dies at 57
1609 Jacobus Arminius [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
1636 Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 Thomas Browne, English philosopher and writer (Garden of Cyrus), dies at 77

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Irish author and satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), dies at 77

1758 Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist, dies
1786 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer, dies at 58
1790 Lyman Hall, American physician and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
1793 Francesc Morera i Cots, Valencian composer, dies at 62
1810 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d'action), dies at 83
1813 Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general and marshal of France, dies in battle at 50
1834 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant and poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
1835 Henry Doeff, Dutch trader in Japan and translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57
1838 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch-English baron and diplomat (Dutch ambassador to London), dies at 73
1842 Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, dies of pneumonia at 72
1856 William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), dies at 56
1864 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brigadier general, dies in battle at 45
1875 Charles Wheatstone, English scientist (sound transmission), and inventor (English concertina; stereoscope; Playfair cipher), dies at 75
1888 Amaat Vyncke, Belgian missionary to the Upper Congo (Flemish Wind), dies of swamp fever and liver disease at 38
1889 Luís I, King of Portugal (1861-89), dies at 50
1894 James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (translations of the Avesta, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism), dies at 45
1897 George Pullman, American industrialist and inventor (railway sleeping car), dies at 66
1901 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1909 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and criminologist, dies at 73
1912 E. B. Dwyer, Austalian-born cricketer (Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies at 36
1918 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), dies from the flu at 31
1918 Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WWI), dies at 34
1921 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1926 Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, dies at 72
1932 Arthur Friedheim, Russian composer, dies at 72
1932 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), dies at 67
1936 Lu Xun, Chinese writer of modern Chinese literature, dies at 55
1937 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), dies of intestinal paralysis at 66

1945 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28), dies at 68
1950 Edna St Vincent Millay, American poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), dies at 58
1954 Hugh Duffy, American Baseball HOF outfielder (Triple Crown & MLB record .440 batting average, single season 1894 Boston Beaneaters), dies from heart failure at 87
1955 Carlos Dávila, President of Government Junta of Chile (1932), dies at 68
1955 John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), dies from coronary thrombosis at 41
1956 Isham Jones, American saxophonist, bandleader ("Star Dust") and songwriter ("It Had To Be You"; "I'll See You in My Dreams"), dies of cancer at 62
1957 V. Gordon Childe, British archaeologist and prehistorian, dies at 65
1959 Stanley Bate, English composer, dies at 45
1960 Günter Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
1961 Benjamin Merkelbach, Dutch architect and city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60
1961 John Fernström, Swedish violinist, conductor (Nordic Youth Orchestra), and composer (Concertino for Flute, Women's Choir and Chamber Orchestra), dies at 63
1964 Maurice Gosfield, actor (Doberman-Phil Silvers Show), dies at 51
1964 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), dies at 79
1966 Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
1970 Unica Zürn, German writer and artist, dies at 54
1971 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, dies at 89
1971 Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies after brief illness at 64
1978 Gig Young [Byron Elsworth Barr], American actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They), kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide at 64
1981 Paul Snoek [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48
1982 Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas"
1983 Carel Willink, Dutch 'imaginary realism' painter, dies at 83
1983 Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
1984 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), dies at 85
1984 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
1985 Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine, is assassinated by a mail bomb at 39
1986 Moses Asch, Polish-American recording engineer (founder of Folkways Records), dies at 81 [1]
1987 Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1987 Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies from complications of multiple sclerosis at 42
1988 Edward "Son" House, American delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Walking Blues"; "Preachin' The Blues"), dies of larynx cancer at 86
1988 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, dies at 77
1989 Alan Murphy, British rock session guitarist (Kate Bush), dies of pneumonia at 36
1990 Lew Worsham, American golfer (US Open 1947; Ryder Cup 1947), dies at 73
1992 Gert Nastian, general & companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69
1992 Maurice Le Roux, French conductor and film score composer (Kamouraska), dies at 69
1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1993 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48
1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
1993 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
1994 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], American actress (Waikiki Wedding, Martha Raye Show), dies after illness at 78
1994 Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies
1994 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
1994 Stanislaw Brunstein, Polish-British artist who specialized in images of the lost world of Jewish Poland, dies at 79
1995 Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (Ornette Coleman), dies from liver cancer at 58
1996 Neville Robinson, English physicist, dies at 71
1996 Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
1997 Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) and composer, dies at 49
1997 Harold French, British director and actor (The Cavalier of the Streets, Trio, Quartet), dies at 97
1997 Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and director (Wether, Beltenebros), dies at 57
1999 James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
1999 Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], French writer (Childhood; Portrait of a Man Unknown; The Golden Fruits), dies at 99
2000 Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer ("Right On the Tip of My Tongue"), dies from a stomach infection at 59
2001 Jagernath Lachmon, Surinamese politician, dies at 85
2002 Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican pioneering artistic photographer, dies at 100 [1]
2003 Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician and 1st President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990-2000), dies of heart disease complicated by injuries from a fall at 78
2003 Hawk [Michael Hegstrand], American professional wrestler (ECW/WCW/WWF/AWA, Legion of Doom), dies at 46
2003 Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2005 Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2005 Dallas Cook, American ska-funk trombonist (Suburban Legends), killed in a motorcycle accident at 23
2006 James Glennon, American cinematographer, dies at 64
2006 Phyllis Kirk [Kirkegaard], American actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show), dies at 79
2007 Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor and novelist (Brief American), dies at 81
2007 Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate, dies at 64
2007 Yolanda "LaLa" Brown, American R&B singer, shot and killed by an unknown gunman at a Milwaukee recording studio at 21
2008 Doreen Wilber, American archer (Olympic gold individual 1972), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 78
2008 Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic, dies at 86
2008 Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
2009 Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
2009 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables), dies at 91
2010 Tom Bosley, American actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote, Fiorello!), dies at 83
2012 Fiorenzo Magni, Italian road cyclist (Giro d'Italia 1948, 51, 55; Tour of Flanders 1949, 50, 51), dies from an aneurysm at 91
2013 Noel Harrison, British singer and actor, dies of a heart attack at 79
2013 Ronald Shannon Jackson, American avant-garde jazz and funk drummer, and composer (Cecil Taylor; Last Exit; Decoding Society), dies of leukemia at 73
2013 Roy Elihu Travis, American composer (Passion of Oedipus), dies at 91
2014 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66
2014 Raphael Ravenscroft, British session saxophone player (Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"; Maxine Nightingale; Roger Waters), dies at 60
2014 Stephen Paulus, American composer (To Be Certain of the Dawn) and co-founder of the American Composers Forum, dies of stroke complications at 65
2016 Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina, dies at 99
2020 Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer (Asakusa Portraits), dies of lymphoma at 75
2020 Spencer Davis [Davies], English guitarist (Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'"), dies of pneumonia at 81 [1] [2]
2020 Tony Lewis, British rock singer-songwriter and bass player (The Outfield - "Your Love"), dies at 62
2021 Fred Goodall, New Zealand cricket umpire (24 Tests, 15 one-day internationals 1965-88), dies at 83
2021 Leslie Bricusse, British stage and film composer and lyricist (Doctor Dolittle; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; "Goldfinger"; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - "The Candy Man"; "Pure Imagination"), dies at 90
2021 Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch soccer striker (5 caps; SC Enschede, PSV, Lausanne Sport), dies at 85
2022 Charley Trippi, American College-Pro Football HOF halfback (Uni of Georgia; NFL C'ship 1947; First-team All-Pro 1948; Pro Bowl 1952, 53; Chicago Cardinals), dies at 100
2022 Dave Herman, American football offensive guard (Super Bowl 1969; AFL All-Star 1968, 69; All-AFL 1967, 68, 69; New York Jets), dies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 81
2022 Joanna Simon, American mezzo-soprano (1962-86), and Emmy Award-winning arts journalist (PBS, 1986-92), dies of thyroid cancer at 85 [1]
2022 Omar Borrás, Uruguayan soccer manager (Uruguay 1977, 82-87; Saudi Arabia), dies from kidney problems at 93